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In addition to providing warmth, Suntouch floor heating products are also very energy efficient. Furthermore, because it is under the carpet or floating wood and over the foam pad, it provides additional insulation from the cold sub-floor, which allows your floors to retain heat better, and requires less energy to heat your room. Suntouch floor warming mats are constructed of an ultra thin heating wire that exists in four layers of foil, quickly and efficiently distributing heat. With the increased efficiency of Suntouch heating products you can heat a 120-square-foot area for about 40 cents a day on average.

Other benefits of electric floor heating systems include:

Silent operation. There’s no hum or whistle of a forced air system.

Energy savings. Evenly distributed heat from a radiant floor heating system can allow the thermostat to be set two to four degrees less than in a forced-air heating system. This can reduce energy costs by 10 to 40 percent.

A healthier home. Forced air systems can spread dust, pollen, and germs. Dust mites and molds love carpet but don’t like warmth. European research performed in 21 households shows a 50 percent to 80 percent reduction in domestic dust mite populations in the households with radiant floor heating, thereby improving the quality of life (particularly for allergy sufferers).

Even, quiet warmth. Even wood, tile, or uncovered concrete floors can benefit from a radiant system.

Radiant floor heating by Suntouch is one of the most comfortable ways to heat your home.  As opposed to forced air heating, which heats the air, Suntouch heating products heat objects such as your floor, rather than heating the air around you.  This increases the level of comfort in your home because the heat is distributed at the floor level and then rises to the ceiling level.  This creates a more uniform climate because all the heat isn’t pooled at the ceiling, but is more evenly distributed.  Because Suntouch radiant floor heating distributes the heat in this manner, the comfort of your home is increased. No more cold feet!

Another benefit of Suntouch radiant heat is that it 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 usually be retrofitted to your existing floors.

New and Exciting? Well, exciting, certainly. The installation of electric floor heating is not new. In fact, heated floors have been installed under bathroom and kitchen tile in the United States for the past 10 years. These floor warming mats 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.

Joan McCloskey, editorial marketing director for Better Homes and Gardens magazine, told homebuilders at the 2003 International Builders Show that the use of floor warming mats to heat bathroom tile is on the list of must-have comforts. “Our bathrooms set the mood for the day and homeowners want it light, comfortable, and cheerful,” she said. “Toys in this room and the master include heated floors, little refrigerators, steam showers with multiple shower heads, soaking tubs, towel warmers, fireplaces, and coffee nooks.”

These thin electric floor warming mats have been very popular in bathrooms and kitchens for a long time. However, the installation of these systems under carpet and hardwood was not practical because they needed to be embedded in a layer of thin-set cement, which you normally don’t use when you install a new carpet or floating wood floor.

As a result, very few people would opt for a heated floor under carpet or floating wood. However, now with the introduction of floor warming mats, you can get heated floors under carpets, hardwood, and other flooring without the need for cement under layers.

Electric radiant heat is a growing trend that started in Europe and is now becoming well known in North America for its distinct benefits, and Suntouch heating products are leading the way for this new type of heating.  Instead of warming air and then circulating it throughout your home using ducts and vents, electric radiant heat is embedded under your floor and uses the entire floor to evenly distribute low-temperature heat.

Although Suntouch offers a variety of methods and technologies one can choose from, the benefits of radiant heat are the same. Electric radiant heat is a unique transfer of energy that naturally searches out colder objects to warm. Instead of rising like warm air, radiant heat starts by warming the coldest and closest objects from its source in any direction. Since floors are usually cold, radiant heating systems are commonly placed under them.

Electric radiant heat is available for many different applications, including bathrooms, kitchens, heated towel racks, and heated walls and ceilings.  To find the right radiant heating system for your home, contact the staff at Suntouch.  Their knowledgeable and friendly staff can help you find the system that matches your needs, along with your budget.

Ready for a bold statement? You will not regret having warm tile in your home. Floor warming systems are a distinguishing feature to any home and provide much needed heat to tile floors. 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.

You need only to take a quick look and you’ll see how Suntouch floor 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.

Thanks to Suntouch’s new line of home heating solutions, now finding and selecting the best heating system for a new home or to add supplemental heat to a cold spot in your home is easier than ever. 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.

A common challenge to traditional home heating is the inability to target specific areas of your home. 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.

Great news for homebuilders and renovators alike: there are a multitude of uses for floor warming mats in homes. To begin with, 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!

Perhaps you didn’t think of this yourself, but 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.

In the end, the fact of the matter is that 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.

People across the country are finding that radiant floor heating by Suntouch is one of the most comfortable ways to heat your home. As opposed to forced air heating, which heats the air, Suntouch heating products heat objects such as your floor, rather than heating the air around you. This increases the level of comfort in your home because the heat is distributed at the floor level and then rises to the ceiling level.

This also creates a more uniform climate because all the heat isn’t pooled at the ceiling, but is more evenly distributed. Because Suntouch radiant floor heating distributes the heat in this manner, the comfort of your home is increased. No more cold feet!

Many homowners agree that another significant benefit to Suntouch radiant heat is that it 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 usually be retrofitted to your existing floors.

Sometimes it takes more than a new coat of paint on the walls or rearranging the furniture to make a home feel cozier and more comfortable.  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!

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. 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.  Can you imagine a cozier feeling than that?

What’s the bottom line?  Radiant heaters are used to heat objects via radiant heat transfer. These radiant heaters have traditionally been used in a variety of industries and applications. Some of these applications include space heating, drying, curing, and water evaporation. More recently, these heating systems are also gaining popularity in home heating applications as well via floor warming mats.

Floor warming mats, like radiant heat, use different types of emitter surfaces. Choices include: quartz, high-temperature glass, stainless steel, and ceramic tiles. These are all materials that are easily and efficiently used in home applications such as flooring, countertops, and towel racks. Because these items are easily turned into emitter surfaces for radiant heat, they can easily and beautifully be incorporated into home heating applications such as heated floors, walls, and towel racks.

You should know that not only are floor warming mats a great way to efficiently heat a home, while maximizing your home’s beauty, but they are very cost effective and easy to install. To find out about radiant heaters for your home, check with the folks at Suntouch. They have a complete product catalog of radiant heating solutions that can accommodate almost any application or budget.