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Keep Your Home Comfortable with Radiant Heating

Stuart Taylor — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:41:02 +0000

Did you know that the use of radiant heating via floor warming mats is one of the most comfortable and efficient ways to heat your home. As opposed to forced air heating, which heats the air, floor warming mats heat objects such as your floor. This increases the level of comfort in your home because the heat is distributed at the floor level where we are usually cold, and gets cooler toward our head area, which is usually too hot. Because radiant floor heating distributes the heat in this manner, the comfort in your home is increased. This means no more cold feet!
Another benefit of floor warming mats is that they can be used for nearly any floor area. Areas such as concrete, tile, hardwood, carpet, and even linoleum can all benefit from radiant floor heating. Even if you live in an existing home, radiant floor heating can be retrofitted, in most cases, to your existing floors.
Whether you’re building a new home, or remodeling your existing home, radiant floor heating is a great way to add comfort and efficiency to the rooms in your home that are traditionally hard to heat. Because floor warming mats deliver heat via objects (your floor) vs. through the air, less heat is lost, and your home is kept at a more constant temperature. This form of heating is much more efficient, and will save you a bundle on your heating costs. Who wouldn’t want to get more comfort for less money?

New Options for Home Heating

Stuart Taylor — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:47:07 +0000

Suntouch electric radiant heating mats by Watts Radiant are designed to gently heat tile and stone floors in bathrooms, kitchens, entry ways and sunrooms. Suntouch systems are very cost-effective solutions for smaller spaces (1-5 rooms) because they are easy to install and have a very low start-up cost. An electric digital thermostat is all that is required to operate an under tile heating system by Suntouch and costs only about $100-$200. Suntouch floor warming mats offer many advantages over a warm-water system. Floor buildup is kept to minimum and there are no structural weight loads to consider, common challenges to a traditional hot water radiant heating system. SunTouch mats are installed directly onto concrete board or the subfloor just prior to setting the tile or stone.
Suntouch customers benefit from a faster installation of which most DIY homeowners can tackle. If you are not up for the task, most tile setters already have experience with Suntouch floor warming systems and can easily add this to their installation. You will not regret having warm tile. Floor warming systems are a distinguishing feature to any home and provide much needed heat to tile floors.

Comfortable Heating Solutions via Suntouch Floor Warming Mats

Stuart Taylor — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:43 +0000

For homebuilders and renovators alike, there are a multitude of uses for floor warming mats in homes. Bathrooms, kitchens and entryways are ideals places to incorporate radiant heat. Tile, marble, slate, and even hardwood are floor coverings that are cold to step onto with bare feet during winter or summer. Floor warming mats can be installed under these surfaces throughout the home and take the cold bite out of these areas. Just think: you’ll never have cold floors or feet again!
Another area of the home that floor warming mats make sense is in the basement of your home. Basements are one of the top requested areas to add floor warming. Due to the fact that forced air systems heat air and hot air rises, the basement is usually the living space that remains cold. New construction is the best time to add radiant heat to a basement, but in many cases it can be accomplished via a remodel, or before getting new carpet.
Floor Heating Tip: Whether you’re building a new home, or remodeling your existing home, floor warming mats are a great way to add comfort and efficiency to the rooms in your home that are traditionally hard to heat.

Upgrade Your Heating System Before Winter

Stuart Taylor — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:51:13 +0000

Only a handful of months until winter is here again, and many homeowners are dreading high heating bills similar to the bills they received last winter. This winter, however, there’s still time to make changes to your home heating which can help you cut electricity costs. New radiant floor heating systems by Suntouch can offer you a choice of a thermostat that is controlled by a floor sensor. This allows you to measure floor temperature or with an ambient control, which allows you to monitor and control the actual temperature in a specific room. Suntouch radiant heating mats can be used and controlled as a primary source of heat or used as a supplemental heating source to add comfort to your living spaces.
More than ever before, homebuilders and home renovators alike are looking for energy-efficient heating options for houses. To find out floor heating mats are right for your home, contact Suntouch. Their knowledgeable staff can help you find the perfect solution to your heating needs.

Home Heating System Options

Stuart Taylor — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:38:43 +0000

Many homeowners love the look of tile, wood, or floating woods but dread stepping out of their soothing shower onto cold tile, especially during those frigid winter months. And many love tile or wood in their kitchens and living areas but worry about their little ones playing and running around on cold floors. That’s why so many are opting to install floor warming mats to warm up their floors. The installation of floor warming mats is not new. In fact, floor warming mats have been installed under bathroom and kitchen tile in the United States for the past 10 years and these floor heating products continue to gain popularity. Many in the kitchen and bath industry expect heated floors to continue to play a big role among homeowners who crave comfort, and efficiency. Efficiency because evenly distributed radiant heat in your floors will allow you to turn down your thermostat two to four degrees. This can reduce energy costs by 10-40%. This setback to your thermostat can happen because a radiant floor heats from the ground up and delivers the heat through objects not air. This makes the lowest three feet of your home the most comfortable where a forced air system loses its heat to the ceiling and is required to heat from the top down. Delivering heat by air also makes it easy to escape and increase your overall heat loss.

The Look You Love, The Comfort You Expect

Stuart Taylor — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:54:47 +0000

The installation of Suntouch electric floor heating is not new: heated floors have been installed under bathroom and kitchen tile in the United States for the past 10 years and the warming products continue to gain popularity. Many in the kitchen and bath industry expect radiant floors to continue to play a big role among homeowners who crave comfort features.

Keep Your House Comfortable Without Spending a Fortune on Heating

Stuart Taylor — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:54:28 +0000

Whether you’re looking to reduce your electricity bill to reduce the strain on your pocketbook, or just concerned about energy usage in light of environmental issues, you can start with your heating systems. Heating our places is one of our greatest energy hogs. By taking a few steps, you can cut down the amount of electricity you use to heat your home. You’ll save money, as well as have a favorable impact on the environment.
Get heat where it’s needed. I remember a conversation I had with my grandpa a couple of years ago when he was complaining about his gas bill after a cold winter. What surprised me is that the money he and my grandma spent heating their home for the two of them was almost the same we spent heating our house for a full family. Why? Because many forced air systems are inefficient, and don’t provide a way to heat specific rooms, while bypassing rooms that are used less frequently. The ability to heat only the rooms you use could save you a lot of money during cold winter months. It doesn’t make sense to heat a guest bedroom that is used a few times a year. However, most forced air systems don’t give us a choice.
This problem can be easily solved, however, by utilizing radiant heat in the form of floor warming mats. Floor warming mats give you the ability to heat specific rooms, without heating other rooms that are used less frequently. Not only are floor warming mats extremely efficient, but the ability to heat only the rooms you use the most will help cut your heating bills, sometimes by as much as half.

Don’t Cover Your Beautiful Hardwood Floors

Stuart Taylor — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:33:35 +0000

Floor coverings such as marble or tile are the perfect way to add beauty and style to your new home or remodel project. However, often times wood, stone, marble and tile appear inviting but are uncomfortably cold, especially during cold winter months. Adding Suntouch floor heating is a great way to add efficiency and comfort to your home – from the ground up! Suntouch products give you the ability to feel the radiating power of the sun at all hours of the day, and especially during the months that are the coldest. Radiant floor heating systems provide quiet, constant, and uniform floor heat under cold surfaces leaving them comfortable to the touch and adding unseen elegance to your home.
While you may think that heated floors are reserved for those with big budgets, recent advances in radiant floor heating technology have made it possible to get radiant floor heating on virtually any budget. No matter what the application, or what your budget, Suntouch offers a solution to meet your needs. From new constructions, to remodels, you owe it to yourself to checkout the benefits and comfort of radiant floor heating.

One Home Upgrade That Adds Comfort and Value

Stuart Taylor — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:17:04 +0000

More and more people who are renovating or upgrading their homes are choosing to install floor warming mats to warm up their floors. After all, who doesn’t love having nice warm toes on a cold winter morning? However, not only do floor warming mats keep your feet toasty, they can heat your whole home, and are far more efficient than forced air heating solutions.
Delivering heat by air makes it easy to escape and increase your overall heat loss. Conversely, through floor warming mats, the evenly distributed radiant heat allows homeowners to turn down the thermostat two to four degrees. This can reduce energy costs by 10-40%. This setback to your thermostat can happen because a radiant floor heats from the ground up and delivers the heat through objects not air. This makes the lowest three feet of your home the most comfortable where a forced air system loses its heat to the ceiling and is required to heat from the top down.
Believe it or not, the installation of radiant floor heating is not a new development in the housing industry. Heated floors have been installed under bathroom and kitchen tile in the United States for the past decade and the floor warming mats continue to gain popularity.

Comfort & Efficiency Delivered By Suntouch

Stuart Taylor — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:52:42 +0000

You may not know much about Suntouch radiant heating products, but finding out about them could save you a bundle this winter. Whether you’re building a new home or updating your current home, you owe it to yourself to check out the comfort and efficiency that Suntouch radiant heating has to offer.
Radiant heaters are a type of heater that warms objects instead of air. Radiant heat uses objects, such as the floor, to heat a home. The air in the room is warmed when it comes into contact with the warmed objects. Heat loss is reduced and the radiant heat remains in the lower part of the room, warmer near feet level and slightly less so at head level, creating the perfect climate for comfort. Seeing, or feeling in this case, is believing.
Not only is radiant heating is one of the most comfortable ways to hear your home, but Suntouch radiant heaters also offer a diversity of applications. Radiant heaters can be used in a number of applications in residential homes or businesses, including Tiled areas, with Hardwood Flooring, carpeted areas, and even cement floors (such as in basements, etc. Because radiant heat is delivered via objects rather than through the air, radiant heaters help to keep the whole house at a more constant temperature, which will increase efficiency, and reduce your overall heating costs.