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Choosing a Radiant Floor Heating System

September 16, 2010 00:09 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

Find the Floor Heating System That is Right For You

There are several radiant floor heating systems on the market today, each with their own designed application. Wanting warm floors for your home is a good place to start, but then how do you know which floor heating system is best for your situation? The best place to start is by doing some well-informed research. Make a list of what you expect your radiant floor heating system to accomplish. Which areas of your home or building project are going to need coverage?  Once you have a good list in place, you can begin your research on typical floor heating systems and what they offer.

If you are a newcomer to the radiant floor heating market you may be overwhelmed with the myriad of choices available. It’s easy to get lost and confused when faced with vast amounts of information available and the varying technologies and heat cables you can purchase. A tried and true rule of thumb is to investigate which manufacturers have been around the longest. This usually means they are seasoned, hold valuable amounts of information and technology at their fingertips, and have already done a lot of research on the consumer’s behalf when it comes to radiant floor heating.

Your desire for warm floors in your home is their bottom line. So it pays for them to have your best interests at heart as well as their own. Identify which manufacturers have a good track record and a long history of production and sales. The important thing is to take your time, make informed decisions and value what other customers have to say about specific manufacturers. You’ll be heating your home in no time and enjoying the pleasant benefits of radiant floor heat.


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Make Your Home Comfortable With Floor Heating

September 16, 2010 00:09 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

Make Your Home Comfortable With Floor Heating

At the end of a hard day, we all like to come home. Being within those walls brings comfort and provides a haven built to keep some of life’s stresses out. There’s no place like home for many of us and it can be even more comfortable with in-floor heating . Radiant floor heating is a simple upgrade to any existing home or a cinch to add to new construction. Having a heated floor throughout your home is an efficient and enjoyable method of home heating.

If you are wondering how to install radiant floor heat, you’ve come to the right place. Warmzone has a team of professionals to help you plan your radiant heat project from beginning to end. You can do an entire home or just a room or two depending on your need and budgets. No matter the scale of your project, floor heat is sure to add comfort and luxury to your home and make coming home during the cold months a pleasure.

After all, there truly is no place like home. Make it even better with in floor heating and enjoy the benefits of efficient and affordable home heat.


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Toss the Thick Socks and Enjoy Bare Feet Year Round

February 19, 2010 00:02 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

Floor Warming Mats Keep Floor Surfaces Perfect for Naked Toes

If you are anything like my mom, you loathe the thought of winter when you have to slip back into socks and shoes to endure the extreme cold. She is a bare foot lover and would walk inside and out with nothing covering her feet year round if she could. She doesn’t like to be tied down to the constraints of socks. “Let those toes breathe!” she would shout as the snow fell. But sadly, she has to don thick socks once in awhile to keep her toes intact and her feet happy. One method of helping those toes breathe is to choose to heat your home from the floor up.

Installing heat cable (mats) for heated floor in bathroom. In-floor heating systems keep floor surfaces at an ideal temperature to strut your naked toes around the house. Warming a floor using radiant floor heating is the most efficient way to heat your home.

Warmzone offers a variety of floor heating systems that are available in convenient floor warming mats (heat cable that is pre-spaced and woven in mats for easy installation). Warmzone floor heating systems feature perfected the technology allowing radiant heat to work for you. They also keep your floors warm year round, allowing you to enjoy the freedom of a sock-less world if you so choose. My mom rejoices every time she steps bare footed across her radiant heated floors.

No one I know enjoys stepping onto a cold and uninviting floor in the morning after leaving their cozy bed. With the assistance of floor warming mats placed seamlessly beneath your floors you’ll never have that sensation again. Warmzone warming mats can be installed under your existing flooring and are extremely popular in bathrooms. It seems these rooms across America suffer most with cold floors and we are especially prone to want a warm floor after stepping out from a shower or warm bath. So, if the thought of remodeling your entire home overwhelms you, start there and feel the wonderful warmth that radiant floor heating has to offer. And while you are at it, start to toss those thick socks and make room in your life for the affordable luxury of heated floors in your home.


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Spring Cleaning with Radiant Heated Floors

February 08, 2010 00:02 AM  BY  AMY MORBY

Kiss the Dust and Allergens Goodbye and say Hello to Clean, Efficient Heat

It may still be blustery outside, but spring is just around the corner, and you know what that means—spring cleaning! Of course, keeping your home warm and dust free might be difficult if you’ve still got an old forced air heating system, so what better time than now to make the switch to electric radiant floor heat?

Happy girl on warm, heated floor.Forced air heating systems do just that—force air, but more often than not, a slew of allergens come out with it, including harmful dust and pollen. Additionally, forced air heating systems aren’t exactly safe. Carbon monoxide leaks and fires are always on the minds of those with forced air heating. With the dust, dirt, and danger of forced air, it’s easy to see why consumers are flocking to the comfort and convenience of heated floors.

Radiant floor heating systems are a whole new echelon of home heating that leaves forced air heating in the dust. Radiant floor heat is the most effective way to heat your home. Rather than heating the air in the room, like forced air heating, radiant floor heating systems heat the floor and the surrounding objects, creating a perfectly even, perfectly luxurious heat. Additionally, heated floors take a lot less time than forced air heaters to heat your home, saving you money and also the environment’s resources.

So this year as you start your annual spring cleaning duties, don’t settle for the dusty old forced air heater. Say goodbye to allergen issues and carbon monoxide scares once and for all and make the switch to radiant floor heating. Once you experience the unparalleled warmth, comfort, and affordability of heated floors, you’ll never go back.


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Keeping Up With the Jones

December 29, 2009 00:12 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

Many Homeowners Are Installing Radiant Floor Heating

It’s hard anymore to truly keep up with the Jones. You think you are hanging in there and then you come home to find a boat parked in their driveway towing four new jet skis. In exasperation you think about throwing in the towel. There is something simple you can do to not only keep up with the Jones but also increase the value of your home. Radiant floor heating is a simple addition to any area of your home. Electric radiant floor heat is an easy do-it-yourself project that will be a long-term investment for your property and help heat your home more efficiently.

Having a heated floor is a sure way to enjoy the long winter months and ensure that your home increases in value. Radiant heat can easily be retrofitted beneath most existing floors. Tile, hardwood, linoleum, even brick floors can enjoy the warming benefits of radiant floor heating. Warmzone carries several radiant heat systems that can be matched to your individual needs. No one system is right for every home. What worked at the Jones’ house may not be best for your floors. Contact Warmzone for an assessment from one of our radiant heat specialists. Once you have electric radiant floor heat be prepared for the Jones to try keeping up with you.


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If It Sounds Like a Good Idea, It Usually Is

October 27, 2009 00:10 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

Radiant Floor Heating Doesn’t Just Sound Too Good To Be True

I lived in New England for a few years and loved my time there. The Red Sox even won the World Series while I was there. It was hard not to get caught up in the thrill and excitement of it all. Because I was so fond of New England, news stories about the area always peak my interest. A recent article about the famous New England candy company, Necco made me take note. The company is entering a new world of candy making by stepping away from artificial coloring and flavors. They are beginning to use ingredients like beet juice and cabbage to flavor and color their famous wafer candy. On the surface this sounds like a good idea, but on a practical level, when I think of eating beet flavored candy I hesitate for just a moment. As with most ideas however, if it sounds like a good one it usually pans out okay. Their candy will be more healthful and really the flavor won’t resemble beets and cabbage or else who would buy it?

I feel the same way about radiant floor heating. It sounds like a great idea and it is. It doesn’t involve random vegetables but it sure produces a great end result: a heated floor.

Someone, somewhere initially had to come up with the idea of using radiant heat in a floor heating system. Just like the research and development team at Necco who said, “Hey, let’s make our candy healthier.” Good ideas produce good products. Radiant floor heat is comfortable, clean, and energy efficient. The long-term benefits of radiant floor heating systems make them ideal for any new construction or remodeling project you have in the works. If you’ve had the good idea to heat your bathroom, entryway, or kitchen let Warmzone’s good idea help you. Install radiant floor heating because it doesn’t just sound too good to be true, it is true.


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Radiant Floor Heating: Maintenance Free, the Way to Be

September 30, 2009 00:09 AM  BY  AMY MORBY

Say Goodbye to Annual Heater Maintenance with Heated Floors

You dread it every year. The dreaded heater maintenance. It's been sitting there all summer long, it's dusty, it's old, and you just don't want to deal with it. Luckily for you, there is a way to put an end to your annual heater maintenance once and for all: radiant floor heating.

Radiant floor heating systems are virtually maintenance free. That's right, with absolutely no effort from you, heated floors bring you unparalleled comfort at an affordable price.

Traditional home heating methods require a daunting list of tasks you should perform yearly to keep them running properly. With electric radiant floor heat, however, all of these annual tasks can be eliminated from your schedule.

Let's compare the maintenance tasks of forced air heating and radiant floor heating:

 

Conventional Heating Systems

Radiant Floor Heating Systems

1. Check the pilot light 1. No pilot lights here.

2. Clean your furnace filter. If it's beyond repair, buy a new one. If you don't do this, your heater has to work harder, use more energy, and send your bill through the roof.

2. No messy filters required. Only perfectly efficient underfloor heating that warms up the house.

3. Brush and vacuum the exchanger surfaces and blower blades.

3. Nope. Non-existent.

4. Seal air leaks with duct tape.

4. Forget about it. No air leaks here.

5. Call a professional to make sure you didn't screw anything up.

5. Save your money. Radiant floor heating systems

With all the extra costs you rack up with conventional heating system maintenance, you could just install a radiant floor heating system and forget about it all. Don't call the expensive repair guy or mess with another nasty, dirty filter. Install floor heating in your home today and see the difference it makes for your wallet and your home.


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How Radiant Heat Works

September 06, 2009 00:09 AM  BY  AMY MORBY

Two Ways Radiant Heat Warms Your Home and Keeps you Cozy.

Radiant heat seems to be the new buzz word for new construction these days. New homes all over the place now come equipped with heated floors and radiant heated driveways. But what exactly is radiant heat? And what does it mean to you?

Radiant heat is the latest and greatest in home heating. Thousands of Americans are already reaping its numerous benefits and will never turn back after experiencing its perfectly even heat and comfort. Radiant heat warms you in two different ways: conduction and convection.

Conduction
Heat naturally goes from hot surfaces to cold surfaces to equalize temperature differences. The whole idea behind radiant heating is that the heat rises directly from the source and transfers to your body and other objects in the room, creating a cozy, even heat. It feels just like sitting in the sun on a pleasantly warm spring day or putting your hands around a warm cup of hot cocoa.

Convection
Radiant heated floors also use convection to heat your home. Heated floors start to heat the air in the room, causing it to rise and create that cozy ambience conventional heating systems only wish they could create. Forced air systems cause more movement in the room’s air, meaning it warms quickly and then rises to the ceiling where nobody can use it. With convection, warm air sits right in the room, keeping you and your family at the perfect temperature.

So there you have it—radiant heat at its simplest. Now that you know how it heats you, it’s high time you installed a radiant floor heating system in your home and put it to the test.


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Staying Sane this Winter with Radiant Floor Heat

August 31, 2009 00:08 AM  BY  AMY MORBY

Warm and Psychologically Sound

Everyone loves heated floors. They’re delightfully cozy, efficient, and affordable, but is it just a luxury? Not in the least. You may not know it, but keeping your home warm not only keeps you cozy, but it may also keep you sane. That’s right; a warm a home has a number of psychological benefits that you may not know about, and what better way to keep your home warm than radiant floor heating?

Cozy room with radiant heated floor.Heat offers a number of psychological benefits. By keeping your home warm with heated floors, you stimulate your thermo-receptors, the receptors in your brain that respond to heat and cold. This helps block pain signals to your brain, reducing discomfort and temporarily increasing local blood circulation. With no pain and better circulation, you’re sure to be happier and healthier this winter—and all you had to do was install a radiant floor heating system in your home.

So radiant heated floors keep you happy, but do they also keep your wallet healthy? Absolutely. Radiant floor heat is one of the most efficient and cost-effective ways to heat your home. Heat rises evenly, heating the air around the room instead of rising to the top where nobody can feel it. Additionally, radiant floor heating systems come equipped with a timer that allows you to control when and where your heated floors switch on.

With so many benefits, you’d be crazy not to install electric radiant floor heat. Act now and ensure your sanity this winter. Less pain, happy brain, and a safe and healthy family this winter. What more could you want?


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The Comfort and Joy of Radiant Heat

August 13, 2009 00:08 AM  BY  JEN HALLAM

Comfort and Joy Isn’t Just Sung in a Christmas Carol - It’s How your Feet Feel with Radiant Heat

After recently returning from a much needed and joy filled vacation on the beach, I came home wondering how to keep my feet as warm as the sand does when I stroll down its welcoming path. The comfort and joy of that warmth should be bottled and used year round. If you have radiant heated floors in your home you are one of the lucky homeowners who simulate that same sunny, sandy warmth even when it is cold outside. Whether we know it or not the sand or hot sidewalk we find our tender toes on is applying the principle of radiant heat. Objects absorb radiant heat until they reach the same temperature as the original heat source. Once the temperatures are level to one another the heat slowly escapes to other areas that are cooler.

Radiant heat is unique as it transfers energy which is naturally searching for colder objects to apply heat too. When searching for an ideal way to heat your home many people are finding the comfort and joy of radiant heat. It is an excellent way to heat the colder spaces in your home. Radiant heat seeks out and begins warming the coldest objects and spaces in the room. For this reason radiant heat doesn’t rise like warm air and is generally placed under floors for optimal heat performance. In floor heating using the principle of radiant heat is one of those wonderful modern conveniences that bring us all comfort and joy.


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