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.