SunTouch Mats Blog

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.