SunTouch Mats Blog

It’s usually true that the best things in life seem to be the most expensive. While I’d agree that is generally the case, I have recently found an exception to this rule. Heated floors, which have always been a luxury, are not only affordable, but can save you a lot of money on heating costs as well.  Suntouch floor heating solutions gives you the luxury you’ve only dreamed of, at a price you can actually live with – comfortably I might add!
Suntouch floor heating systems will allow you to turn down your thermostat two to four degrees. This can reduce energy costs by 10-40% and can be verified with your local utility company. 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.
A good analogy for radiant floor heating to forced air is a car that has heated seats and a forced air heater/furnace. The forced air in a car can dry you out and can become uncomfortable and is difficult to dial in because of the heat loss due to its air delivery. A heated seat will provide you with quick results and will remain warm long after it is reduced or turned completely off. The heated seat actually warms your body and the car seat, not the air. Forced air will over time will inefficiently heat objects but with the negative side effects of dry air, dust and pollen.
If you’ve been dreaming of the comfort of heated floors, but didn’t think you could actually afford it, you should checkout Suntouch.  They have heating systems for any application, no matter what size your budget is.

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.

With fully armored and grounded power leads and a unique twin wire design, Suntouch are the only electric floor warming mats manufactured in America that registers no measurable electromagnetic field. The Suntouch electric radiant heat system is a simple, safe and efficient alternative to mechanical systems or multi-step mortar installation processes.
Convert your cold floors to warm living areas by installing Suntouch floor warming mats. More and more custom homes and remodeling projects include floor warming mats by Suntouch. Warm floors make for comfortable social areas in homes and a desirable feature to any home. Originating heat in your home from the floors is the ideal method to warm your home rather than forcing hot air to the ceiling.
Suntouch is the largest and most recognized manufacturer of electric radiant floor warming products in the United States. Special attention has been made in these electric floor warming products by using a special braided twin wire design that registers nearly zero EMF when measured ½ inches above the wire! SunTouch mats were the first with this patented innovation!
The most popular area for SunTouch floor warming mats is in bathrooms, where you can replicate the sensation of sand warmed naturally by the sun. Suntouch mats can be installed under almost every floor covering including tile, stone and even laminate flooring. Include SunTouch floor warming mats in your next home or remodeling project.

Every year for my birthday my aunt sends me a new pair of slippers. This year, I’m struggling with a way to tell her not to send the slippers, because I simply no longer need them. This is because we’ve installed radiant floor heating in our new home and won’t be need slippers to keep our feet warm this winter.

A comparison of heating by way of floor warming mats to that of forced air is a car that has heated seats verses a forced air heater/furnace. The forced air in a car can dry you out and can become uncomfortable and is difficult to dial in because of the heat loss due to its air delivery. However, heated seat will provide you with quick results and will remain warm long after it is reduced or turned completely off. The heated seat actually warms your body and the car seat, not the air. Forced air, over time, will inefficiently heat objects but with the negative side effects of dry air, dust and pollen, not to mention that hot air rises quickly and can easily escape from your home.

The silent operation of your warm floors, which are free from drafts or flying dust particles, is why these systems are becoming so popular. Many homeowners are searching for ways in which they can create a more comfortable, efficient, and healthier atmosphere in their homes. Floor warming mats accomplish each of these goals.

It seems as if every home has “cold spots” in the wintertime, right? Areas – perhaps the upstairs hallway, guest bathroom, kitchen, or (heaven forbid) one of the family bedrooms – that just doesn’t stay warm? Such cold spot problems are easily solved with floor heating products by Suntouch.

One bonus to the heating systems offered by Suntouch is that it can be installed under almost any type of flooring, including tile, hardwood, carpet, and marble. The products you’d need to install the heating would be dependant upon what type of flooring you’d be installing it under.

One of the most popular Suntouch heating products are floor warming mats. The Mats include a red heating cable woven into an adhesive-backed fiberglass mesh that allows for simple roll-out installation without worrying about heating cable spacing. Suntouch floor warming mats are pre-terminated for use with 120 and 240 volts, and are available in various lengths of 24″ widths to accommodate any room’s layout. The tile floor warming mats emit no measurable electromagnetic fields due to the shielded dual conductor design. This dual conductor cable requires only one cold lead connection making it easy to layout and install. If you want to stamp out one or more of the “cold spots” in your home, contact Suntouch to find out about their innovative line of floor heating products.

You may not know that floor warming mats are one of the most comfortable ways to heat your home. As opposed to forced air heating, which heats the air, floor warming mats heat objects, namely 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 floor warming mats distribute the heat in this manner, the comfort level of your home is increased, thus 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 floor warming mats. Even if you live in an existing home floor warming products can be retrofitted, in most cases, to your existing floors.

Whether you’re building a new home or remodeling an existing home, you’ll find that floor warming mats provide a great, efficient way to add comfort and efficiency to the rooms in your home that are traditionally hard to heat.

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.

Here’s a question for you: how can you comfortably heat your home while also enjoying a reduction in energy usage? Through radiant floor heating by Suntouch, of course! Delivering heat by forced air makes allows heat to escape and increase your overall heat loss. However, heating through radiant heat is more efficient, which allows homeowners to turn down the thermostat two to four degrees.

Naturally, turning down a thermostat 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 Suntouch 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 warming products continue to gain popularity.

Heating Tip: Many in the kitchen and bath industry expect floor heating systems to continue to play a big role among homeowners who crave comfort features, while reducing energy costs – Which is something Suntouch can help you with.

Building “green” is about energy efficiency, but it is also about using durable materials that won’t need to be replaced in a few years (for example, metal roofing instead of shingles). Both aspects can put a little green in your wallet over the long haul. This is especially true with radiant heating products like floor warming mats.
Floor warming mats are one of the hottest green features being installed in new homes these days. Getting out of bed and stepping onto a warm bathroom floor is a luxury, to be sure. However, these floor warming mats are also much more efficient, which will lower your energy consumption, thus saving you some “green” as well.
“There’s getting to be more and more people asking about it,” said Steve Overholser, part of the husband-and-wife team that owns Tiffany Homes. He installed radiant in-floor heat in one of his green houses that was featured in a parade of homes. Floor warming mats are not only helping save energy, but these reduced energy costs will pay for floor warming mats many times over.  If you’re serious about saving money, and cutting down on energy consumption, radiant heating is a great place to start.