SunTouch Mats Blog

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. Suntouch floor warming 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. You will not regret having warm tile. Floor warming systems are a distinguishing feature to any home and provide much needed heat to tile floors.

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.

Only a handful of months until winter is here again, and many homeowners are dreading high heating bills similar to the bills they received last winter. This winter, however, there’s still time to make changes to your home heating which can help you cut electricity costs. New radiant floor heating systems by Suntouch can offer you a choice of a thermostat that is controlled by a floor sensor. This allows you to measure floor temperature or with an ambient control, which allows you to monitor and control the actual temperature in a specific room. Suntouch radiant heating mats can be used and controlled as a primary source of heat or used as a supplemental heating source to add comfort to your living spaces.
More than ever before, homebuilders and home renovators alike are looking for energy-efficient heating options for houses. To find out floor heating mats are right for your home, contact Suntouch.  Their knowledgeable staff can help you find the perfect solution to your heating needs.

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 pitter-pattering on cold floors. That’s why so many are opting for electric floor heating systems from Suntouch to warm up their floors.

The installation of Suntouch electric floor heating is not new: heated floors have been installed under bathroom and kitchen tile in the United States for the past 10 years and the warming products 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.

Whether you’re looking to reduce your electricity bill to reduce the strain on your pocketbook, or just concerned about energy usage in light of environmental issues, you can start with your heating systems.  Heating our places is one of our greatest energy hogs.  By taking a few steps, you can cut down the amount of electricity you use to heat your home. You’ll save money, as well as have a favorable impact on the environment.
Get heat where it’s needed.  I remember a conversation I had with my grandpa a couple of years ago when he was complaining about his gas bill after a cold winter.  What surprised me is that the money he and my grandma spent heating their home for the two of them was almost the same we spent heating our house for a full family.  Why?  Because many forced air systems are inefficient, and don’t provide a way to heat specific rooms, while bypassing rooms that are used less frequently.  The ability to heat only the rooms you use could save you a lot of money during cold winter months.  It doesn’t make sense to heat a guest bedroom that is used a few times a year.   However, most forced air systems don’t give us a choice.
This problem can be easily solved, however, by utilizing radiant heat in the form of floor warming mats.  Floor warming mats give you the ability to heat specific rooms, without heating other rooms that are used less frequently.  Not only are floor warming mats extremely efficient, but the ability to heat only the rooms you use the most will help cut your heating bills, sometimes by as much as half.

Floor coverings such as marble or tile are the perfect way to add beauty and style to your new home or remodel project. However, often times wood, stone, marble and tile appear inviting but are uncomfortably cold, especially during cold winter months.  Adding Suntouch floor heating is a great way to add efficiency and comfort to your home – from the ground up! Suntouch products give you the ability to feel the radiating power of the sun at all hours of the day, and especially during the months that are the coldest. Radiant floor heating systems provide quiet, constant, and uniform floor heat under cold surfaces leaving them comfortable to the touch and adding unseen elegance to your home.
While you may think that heated floors are reserved for those with big budgets, recent advances in radiant floor heating technology have made it possible to get radiant floor heating on virtually any budget.  No matter what the application, or what your budget, Suntouch offers a solution to meet your needs.  From new constructions, to remodels, you owe it to yourself to checkout the benefits and comfort of radiant floor heating.

You may not know much about Suntouch radiant heating products, but finding out about them could save you a bundle this winter. Whether you’re building a new home or updating your current home, you owe it to yourself to check out the comfort and efficiency that Suntouch radiant heating has to offer.
Radiant heaters are a type of heater that warms objects instead of air. Radiant heat uses objects, such as the floor, to heat a home. The air in the room is warmed when it comes into contact with the warmed objects. Heat loss is reduced and the radiant heat remains in the lower part of the room, warmer near feet level and slightly less so at head level, creating the perfect climate for comfort. Seeing, or feeling in this case, is believing.
Not only is radiant heating is one of the most comfortable ways to hear your home, but Suntouch radiant heaters also offer a diversity of applications. Radiant heaters can be used in a number of applications in residential homes or businesses, including Tiled areas, with Hardwood Flooring, carpeted areas, and even cement floors (such as in basements, etc.  Because radiant heat is delivered via objects rather than through the air, radiant heaters help to keep the whole house at a more constant temperature, which will increase efficiency, and reduce your overall heating costs.

Floor warming mats are one of the most comfortable ways to heat your home.  As opposed to forced air heating, which heats the air, radiant heat heats objects such as your floor.  This increases the level of comfortability 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 radiant floor heating distributes the heat in this manner, the comfortability of your home is increased. No more cold feet!

Another benefit of floor warming systems are that they 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, floor warming products can usually be retrofitted, in most cases, to your existing floors.

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.

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.