Floor heating

[coltleader]

I really want to try the in floor heat thing. I think that it would be awesome to walk out onto the warm wood floor during the cold winter but I don't know where to get it done. I have heard of floorstoyourhome.com but I'm not sure if they offer that service. Does anyone know?

 

[catalac]

Warmlyyours.com is advertising on this site. Are you looking for someone to put it in, or just where to buy it ?
I wish I would have put it under our tile in the master bath. It gets so cold under that floor in the winter.

 

[azandy]

Your heating contractor can staple up tubes under your wood floor for heat after the fact. People I have talked to say it works well.
I am a tile contractor and have installed many different electric heat systems under ceramic tile. It works ok. Real nice to walk on. Most people I have talked to after are happy if the have it on a timer so it comes on when they are expected to be in that room. Such as a bathroom in the morning as an example. It does draw plenty of power depending on the size of the room. jmho

 

[polarisrider1]

I install Nuheat systems. In my house (the test house) I have a combination of floor heating. I stapled tubing under the kitchen and kids bedroom floors. Family room addition got a mud job with tubes embeded and bathroom is elec. Heated floors.. The hot water floors are rum off a power vent hot water heater and a pump with a preasure tank. Very simple to set up.

 

[gogebic_sledder]

We have it in the cabin its awesome, actually too good. Basement used to get very hot. Remember this you can have the best enginered system but if its installed by someone 400 miles away who is out of his league you can run into trouble. As was our case. It took many years to fine tune our heating system.

 

[doomsman]

""Remember this you can have the best enginered system but if its installed by someone 400 miles away who is out of his league you can run into trouble. ""

The engineering too, read up and review any plan presented to you. I saw many nightmares designed by the plumbers salesman as a building inspector.

 

[Admin]

I will say, having warm floors is really nice. I think you can actually get by with a cooler setting on the thermostat because your feet stay so much warmer. Grace can run around in bare feet in the middle of an arctic blast outside and it is especially nice to get out of the shower and step on a nice warm floor. The colder it is outside the warmer the floors.

The main drawback is it's slow response time. When you have big temperature swings, the floor reacts too slowly, so just about the time the sun is coming up and the air outside is warming and the suns rays are warming the air inside the house, the floors are really starting to get warm, which is the opposite of what you actually need at that point. I suppose if you lived in an area where large (more than 15-20 degrees F) swings in temperature occur on a regular basis, you could probably just use a programmed thermostat to work out the issues with the lag.

Other than the lag, it's a great, even heat.

-John

 

[lenny]

dat's what da old blue shack is gettin