SunTouch Electric Radiant Floor Heating Adds Heat With Ease

Unless you’ve just walked in the door after running a marathon and your dogs are not only barking, they are panting and sweating inside those athletic running shoes, you are not going to be eager to walk on cold stone or tile floors. Sure on hot summer days it may be nice as you wander around barefoot but once the temperatures drop and your feet crave heat, you’ll be wishing for electric radiant floor heat.

SunTouch electric radiant floor heating is a popular choice for adding warmth with ease to your home. The smart floor warming technology can be added to existing remodel projects or easily planned as part of your new construction. Electric radiant heat is a smart and efficient way to heat your home, from the ground up. Using SunTouch warming floor mats you’ll find you can warm just about any floor surface without having to replace or cause damage to the existing floor.

If you have always dreamed of gliding across a heated floor in the chilly winter months, it is now easier than ever. Adding radiant floor heating is a truly affordable alternative to heating the floors in your home. From the kitchen to the bathroom, the entryway to the hallway you can now easily install SunTouch warming mats and walk around your home barefoot and happy.

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.

If you’re considering installing radiant heating, you need to consider several key aspects of your project that will assure you the best price and performance. It’s important to understand the details of your project and then match it to the best system available.

Whether heating under hardwood, carpet, or tiled floors, there is a system that will fit your individual project. Both electric and hydronic systems can be installed directly under hardwood and carpet flooring. If you are in the market for a radiant heat system, you should check out the selection of radiant heating products available through SunTouch ^®. SunTouch can provide you with as many options as possible, and help you select the best options for any project that will fit your individual needs and budget. If you’re considering installing a heated floor, you really should check out the products offered by SunTouch.  Along with their technical expertise, they can educate you as to which radiant heat products match your application, as well as your budget.

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.

The use of a bathroom can be responsible for a significant amount of your utility bills year-round. Bathroom heating is one such energy consideration because you want the heat quickly, but for only a short period of time. Therefore traditional forced air heating systems for a bathroom can be very inefficient, and waste a lot of energy.  However, SunTouch ^® provides a solution to this in their radiant heating products.  Radiant heat can make you feel comfortably warm without having to heat all the air in the bathroom.

SunTouch radiant heating provides 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. This is why radiant heating systems are generally placed under floors. If you have ever strolled barefoot along the beach on a sunny day and felt the warm sand underneath your feet, or held a warm mug, then you have felt radiant heat. Objects absorb radiant heat until they are the same temperature as the heat source, after which the heat slowly escapes to other areas that are colder, such as the air, etc.

Not only will radiant heat save you in heating costs in areas like your bathrooms, which only need heat for short periods of time.  But, they also increase the comfort level of these rooms because they keep concentrate the heat in the areas that are generally the coolest, such as tile floors, etc.  Imagine being able to step out of the shower onto a warm floor this winter.  These are only a few of the benefits of a radiant heating system. To find out the other benefits of radiant heat, contact SunTouch today.

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.

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.

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. So how to solve this dilemma?

The good news is that 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.

You may not need to understand how a radiant floor warming mat system works efficiently to heat your family’s home in order to realize that it’s the best heating option for you. But if you have ever been curious as to how it works, then keep reading.

When a floor warming system is turned on, energy is forced through a conductive material to create resistance or heat. For most areas an electric line-voltage system is used. These systems use a special thermostat that has an integrated breaker for safety right at the power source.

And it’s versatile to your plans, too. A radiant floor warming mat can be used and controlled as a primary source of heat or even used as a supplemental heating source to add comfort to your living spaces.

SunTouch ^® under floor mats are the perfect solution for nearly every type of floor covering. These special mats warm existing floors without having to replace the floor coverings. If you have access under a floor, simply staple under floor mats between the joists. Underfloor mats will warm wood, vinyl, laminates or tile floor coverings. They deliver 10 watts/sq. ft. of floor area (about 34 BTU/hr/sq. ft.). With under floor mats, most floors can be heated up to 12° to 15°F warmer than they would otherwise be. Carpeted floors will not warm up as much as other floor coverings due to the high insulation value of carpet and padding. You may experience a temperature rise in the floor of only a 6°-10°F, which may or may not meet your satisfaction. Insulation installed below the mats is essential to complete the installation. SunTouch mats are also the perfect radiant floor heating solution for the do-it-yourself type person. Their website, suntouchmats.com has installation videos to assist in the installation of SunTouch products.