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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.

If you’ve ever tried to update, or install a new heating system in an older home you’re well aware of how difficult this can be.  A lot of older homes that were once heated by wood burning stoves don’t have heating and air conditioning ducts with which to deliver the heat to the different rooms of the house.  Installing these ducts after the fact can not only be difficult, but is also very costly.  However, there is a solution to adding heating to homes that have not been built for traditional forced air systems.  This can be accomplished via floor warming mats, which are installed beneath your flooring.
Floor warming mats, as opposed to warm air systems (such as a forced air unit heaters), delivers the source of heat to the floor level, not the ceiling. Radiant heaters or radiant energy is the oldest form of heating used to provide comfort and is the basis for all heating systems. Radiant energy is totally pure radiation and is absorbed by an object without physical contact with the heat source or by heating the surrounding air, as is the case with convective, forced air systems.
Because floor warming mats can be installed under carpet, hard wood, tile, or other floor or wall surfaces they make adding heat to any room of the home very simple.  Furthermore, radiant heaters offer more comfort than forced air heating by heating the atmosphere from the ground up.  Since heat rises, the heat will be more evenly distributed, thereby providing a much more comfortable atmosphere.
Radiant heaters are not only a comfortable, and cost effective heating solution, but they make installing heating in older homes much more easily, and can save you a lot of time and money.

One common problem with home heating systems is the inability to target specific areas of your home, leaving some areas too hot while others are too cold. However, Suntouch has a solution that allows you to heat individual rooms, without directing heat to areas of your home that don’t need it. Suntouch utilizes electric radiant heating to accomplish exactly this. Radiant heating systems can be easily designed to be independently controlled by zone which enables a home owner to increase the temperature for defined areas of the home during occupancy and conversely allows a particular zone to remain off during down times.

Choosing the best heating system for a new home or to add supplemental heat to a cold spot in your home is now easier than ever thanks to Suntouch’s new line of home heating solutions. Suntouch heating products will not only save you money, but it gives you complete control to efficiently warm you most used living spaces without comprising comfort and efficiency.