SunTouch Mats Blog

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.