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The Smart and Safe Heating Alternative

February 19, 2010 00:02 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

SunTouch Floor Warming Mats Aim to Please

Choosing to heat your home from the floor up is the smart and safe heating alternative to bulky and costly mechanical systems. We are seeing more and more new homes installing heated floors, utilizing the efficient warming patterns of radiant floor heating. SunTouch floor warming mats are fully armored and grounded in power leads. With a unique twin-wire design these heated floor mats are the only electric floor warming product made in the U.S.A. that registers no measurable electromagnetic field. Put simply, installing SunTouch electric radiant heat systems is a simple and safe alternative to more intricate and expensive heating systems. They work great in a remodel as well as new home construction since they are easily retrofitted into existing floor plans.

Mom and baby on radiant heated floor.By choosing a SunTouch electric radiant floor heating system you’ll find your home heating efficiency rise. Originating heat from the floors in your home is the ideal method to keep your home warm, rather than forcing hot air to the ceiling with dusty, loud furnaces.

SunTouch heated floor mats may be installed under almost every type of floor covering including tile, stone, or laminate flooring. Including these smart and safe floor warming mats in your next remodel or new home design will increase the value and efficiency of your home. After all, they aim to please and so far are hitting the mark for customers across the country. 


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Minimize Heat Loss by Creating a Barrier Between Bare Feet and the Floor

July 19, 2009 00:07 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

SunTouch Floor Heating Mats Eliminate Cold Feet

My feet are always cold. I wear slippers in the summer. Granny slippers, as my husband affectionately calls them. Heat loss through my feet is a serious deal for me. When I visit my parents I turn green with envy because they have a heated tile floor. My feet wander around bare and free when we walk the halls of their remarkable heated tile floor. As I build my dream house in my mind, the tile and hardwood floors are sprawled over electric heated floor mats, and my granny slippers are tossed into a dusty forgotten corner.

It is simple really, to minimize heat loss through the feet; one must first create a barrier between bare feet and the floor. Using a heated floor mat creates that barrier is a cost-efficient, easy-to-install method of doing just that. Heating your floor with under floor radiant heating mats is a project that can often be done at any stage of home building. A heated floor is surprisingly simple to install under tile, hardwood, or even carpeted floor. Many people enjoy the benefits of a slipper-less existence. One day I will too! For now I better go schedule another visit to foot heaven, er, I mean my parent’s house.


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Price Matching Makes Shopping for Electric Heating Systems Simple

June 27, 2009 00:06 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

We'll Match or Beat Prices on Radiant Floor Heating Systems

SunTouch® radiant floor heating products have become very popular with consumers for their heated floor needs. Confidence in what we sell has led us to offer our Price Match Plus guarantee. We expect smart consumers to shop around, to read customer reviews, to speak with other radiant floor heating companies and come to a conclusion about what they want in their heated flooring. When they reach that conclusion we are confident they will land on SunTouch for their radiant floor heating needs

Price Match PlusOccasionally a price quote may come in lower than SunTouch. With the Price Match Plus program we will match or beat any qualified quote on any complete electric heating system. SunTouch heated floor systems are ideal for new construction as well as remodels. SunTouch floor heating technology provides heating mats that warm just about any floor without having to replace or refinish the existing flooring.

Shop around, we dare you, we encourage you even. Then come back to us and we’ll make sure you get the best pricing and service available on your electric heating systems. The SunTouch heated floor will provide lasting comfort and warmth in your home and the shopping is now simpler than ever thanks to our Price Match Plus program.


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Safety Features of SunTouch Radiant Floor Heating

May 15, 2009 00:05 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

Floor Heating - Safety First

The design of SunTouch radiant floor heating products was deliberate and with the homeowner in mind. The ultimate ease and comfort of heated floors is high priority. Having access to a well-designed durable product is also important. Simple installation of SunTouch’s heated floor mats is another significant feature. Floor warming can be added to new construction or to existing floors easily. None of these things matter though, if your radiant floor heating is not safe for use in your home.

Heated tile floor in kitchenSunTouch radiant floor heating products are leading the way in comfort and safety features. The radiant floor heating products use the latest in safety technology. Heat cable used for heating tile, wood, concrete, or carpeted floors utilize EMF canceling technology. SunTouch has led the way in testing standards to promote and sell safe products. These products are used in your home, where your children and pets play. The SunTouch product line gives you the peace of mind knowing that what you are walking on is safe, secure and comfortable.

SunTouch radiant heating mats come standard with fully armored and grounded power leads and twin-wire design. These heated floor mats are designed with EMF canceling technology and manufactured in America. It's nice knowing that SunTouch puts safety first, and our peace of mind is just a bonus!


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Spring has Sprung, Yet we Still Need Warm Floors

March 25, 2009 00:03 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

Radiant Floor Heat Warms Up Chilly Spring Nights

Spring has sprung. Even though we have all eagerly flipped our calendars to March and watched with much anticipation the arrival of the first day of spring, many of us still feel that nip in the air. Winter isn’t entirely out of our lives and with the last waning cold snaps approaching, heat is still a priority in many homes. Radiant floor heat provides countless homes already with the added warmth desired in the final days of winter. Now more than ever floor heating is an affordable and an efficient way to keep chilly spring storms from creeping inside.

Electric radiant floor heat is a simple and prudent investment for any home. Especially as the seasons change and we are reminded that the temperatures are not quite ready to climb to allow for our bathing suits just yet. Electric heated underfloor mats can be easily installed under tile or hard wood floors, no matter the age of your home. Walking across a heated floor will remind your feet that they are safe and warm indoors, even if they can’t walk barefoot across the lawn just yet.

Thank goodness spring has finally sprung and the birds have started to make their way back home. But until the final chilly days are behind us for another season, invest in radiant floor heating to ease the sting of that final chill in the air.


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Heating Small Floor Spaces

February 26, 2009 00:02 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

SunTouch Radiant Floor Heat is Ideal for Smaller Areas

Radiant floor heating is a wonderful addition to any home. Most homeowners believe that the installation of a heated floor is something best done during the initial construction of a home. The belief also exists that radiant floor heating be cast throughout the entire home, thereby maximizing the heating potential and benefits. The reality is that just about any floor can be retrofitted with radiant heat at any stage of home ownership.

There are many of us with smaller do-it-yourself attitudes that would love to walk into a small tiled bathroom or entryway and feel the same luxurious heat offered by a radiant heat floor system. Using SunTouch floor heating mats is a simple way to achieve heated tile floors in smaller spaces. If you have anywhere from one to five rooms, SunTouch may be a plausible alternative to a complete overhaul of your flooring.

Achieving warmth with electric radiant floor heat is easier than ever before. SunTouch floor heating systems are simple to install and have remarkably low start-up costs. An initial cost a buyer will incur up front is when they purchase an electric digital thermostat. These thermostats can usually be found for less than $200.

Heated floors in smaller areas are tackled by simply installing SunTouch mats directly onto concrete board or the subfloor just prior to setting the stone or tile. If the do-it-yourself spirit fails when you attempt this project, most tile setters already have experience with floor warming systems and can add it to their installation easily.


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When Research Pays Off

November 24, 2008 00:11 AM  BY  STUART TAYLOR

And you thought you were done with homework when you finished school! But the fact of the matter is that choosing the best heating systems for a new home or to add supplemental heat to a cold spot in your home takes a little homework. The consultants at SunTouch ® can provide information on all of the latest heating systems. SunTouch can also help to properly assess your project and prescribe a system that will add value to your home while staying within your budget.

Heating a home efficiently offers many challenges. A common challenge to traditional heating systems is the inability to zone your home for specific areas of the home without heating the entire home. SunTouch 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. This strategy not only saves homeowners a considerable amount of money, it gives you complete control to efficiently warm you most used living spaces without comprising cost.


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Wake Up Happy and Warm

November 23, 2008 00:11 AM  BY  STUART TAYLOR

If you feel like nothing is worse than crawling out of bed on a cold winter morning and stepping onto the cold bathroom tile, you aren’t alone! What a great way to get your day off to a rotten start, eh? However, this doesn’t have to be a problem this winter thanks to the floor warming mats you can install in bathrooms.If you’ve experienced the comfort of heated floors, you know exactly I’m talking about.If you haven’t, then you owe it to yourself to read on.

Maybe this will help understand better…a good analogy for floor warming mats to 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. 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.

Here’s the deal: evenly distributed radiant heat via floor warming mats installed in your floors 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.


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Wake Up to Warmth Every Month

November 23, 2008 00:11 AM  BY  STUART TAYLOR

Is there anything worse the crawling out of a nice warm bed and then stepping onto ice cold bathroom tile?  In my opinion, there aren’t many things worse than that.  What a great way to get your day off to a rotten start.  However, SunTouch floor warming mats provide a convenient solution to this age-old problem.  Thanks to the technology behind these floor warming mats, you can have heated floors in every room of your home.

So, how do these floor warming mats work?  Well, they draw upon the principles of radiant heat to provide a comfortable and efficient heating alternative for your home.
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’re remodeling, or building a new home, you should checkout the line of SunTouch floor warming mats.


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Upgrade Your Heating System Before Winter

November 22, 2008 00:11 AM  BY  STUART TAYLOR

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. 


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