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.

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.

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.

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.

If you’re thinking of remodeling a bathroom or kitchen, there is something you should consider – Floor warming mats. If you’re not familiar with what floor warming mats are, they’re simply thin electric mats installed beneath your flooring. The floor warming mats are controlled by a timer-thermostat. To install this type of heating is very cost effective, especially when you consider how much money you’ll save on your heating bill. For an average sized bathroom, it will operate on less than 10 cents a day of electricity.

In theory, these products are very similar to electric blankets. They are made of a heat resistant wire which serpentines over a supporting material. They are safe, relatively easy to install, and extremely energy efficient. If you are remodeling, floor warming mats are the perfect solution. They’re inexpensive, and easy enough to install that a do-it-youselfer could install it.

Aside from the economical arguments for electric radiant heat are additional benefits, such as added comfort. Have you ever noticed during the winter how your feet can be icy cold, while you’re upper body and head are sweating? This is because traditional forced air heating puts the heat in the air, which rises to our head level. This leaves the air at our feet cold, and the air at our head hot. This is really not optimal, because our upper body and head areas are generally hot due to the fact that this is where the majority of our body heat escapes. Having electric radiant heat in the floor increases our comfort by bringing the heat to our feet, which leaves the air at head level cooler.This scenario creates the perfect level of comfort. 

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. 

With the winter months fast approaching, 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, home builders and home renovators alike are looking for energy-efficient heating options for houses. To find out which radiant heating solution is right for your home, contact SunTouch. Their knowledgeable staff can help you find the perfect solution to your heating needs. 

Are you up nights wondering how to solve the puzzle of keeping your home heated evenly? Puzzle no longer. The solution is here: 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.).

In case you didn’t realize, the fact is that, 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.

Who doesn’t find saving money to be an appealing prospect? SunTouch ^® electric radiant heating products, combined with a well-insulated home, allow these radiant heating systems to quickly warm your home and then shut down or wait idle for long periods of time before being called upon by the thermostat to operate.

More than ever before, home builders, and home renovators alike are looking for energy-efficient heating options for houses. We say they need look no further than SunTouch for their ideal home heating solution. No matter the method, technology, or system used, a homeowner quickly discovers that the benefits of SunTouch heating products are the same – more comfortable home, and more green in your wallet.

Quite simply put, SunTouch radiant heating products are among the most efficient form of heating available in today’s market. Significantly less operating time is required to attain and maintain the desired warmth compared to furnaces and other traditional methods of heating.This helps to reduce your operating costs, and lowers your energy bills.

Who hasn’t cringed in anticipation of having to step barefoot onto a floor in the middle of winter? If not, you’re among the minority. However, with floor warming mats by SunTouch^® you can say goodbye to cold feet on your tile floor, as well as those yelps of “so cold!” you’ll hear from your spouse each morning. Floor warming mats do more than just keeping the floors in your home warm. It also helps in warming the entire house.

Maybe you’re wondering just how do they do that?  It’s so simple, you’ll laugh. Floor warming mats are heated mats that go beneath your tile, hardwood, or carpet.It is kind of like how an old hot water radiator worked when you were in school - for those of us who are old enough to remember those radiators in the classrooms, except these floor warming mats use electricity as a heat source, instead of water. Because of how flexible the flooring system is, it makes for many different options.

Not only is radiant floor heating warming mats very comfortable, but it’s economical and very energy efficient; they can dramatically reduce the need to run your forced air furnace. If you are searching for a way of keeping your floors warm in the winter and save money on your heating bills, consider taking a serious look at radiant heat flooring.