Bathrooms And Radiant Heat Go Together
Especially in the winter, it is nice to wake up to warm bathroom floors. Most bathrooms have floors made of cold tile and by installing radiant floor heat, you can turn that cold tile into something that is not such a shock to wake up to.
The two rooms where many people choose to install radiant heat are the bathrooms and kitchens. This is because those floor surfaces are usually not carpeted and having warm floors is especially nice in those rooms. It used to be that more homes had radiant heat throughout the house. You might remember your Grandmas house having metal radiators somewhere in every room that you couldnt touch because they were so hot.
That type of radiant heating has been abandoned in modern homes but it doesn’t mean you cant have radiant floor heat installed in your bathrooms and kitchens. By adding floor heat to those two rooms, you will give them a special touch of luxury that you will enjoy for years and it will also make your home easier to sell.
Of the two kinds of radiant heat, electric radiant heat is the easiest and cheapest to install. Electric radiant heat works similarly to a toaster in that electricity heats up metal coils and transmits heat. This type of heat is easier to install in existing homes than the other kind of hydronic radiant heat. In hydronic heat, hot water is pushed through pipes under the house which heats the floors. Putting in pipes that will safely carry hot water throughout the house is much more expensive and usually only done in houses that are being built.
Radiant heat is totally silent and it is much better for your skin that the forced air that is pumped through most houses today. If you are looking into how much it will cost to install heat pads under your floors, you should realize that radiant heat is best if it is installed while a house is being built. That doesn’t mean you can’t have it installed later but it is cheaper and easier to have it put in up front. Because it is so much harder to install in an older house, most people choose just to do a room or two rather than the whole house.
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