Warmzone Blog

In these tumultous real estate times, many homeowners are looking to renovate or otherwise improve their current homes rather than house-hunting.  For those homeowners just starting out on a home improvement or renovation project, large or small, we think it’s worth looking into what radiant floor heating can do for you and your home.

You’ll soon find that there’s a multitude of uses for radiant floor heating in homes. Bathrooms, kitchens and entryways are ideals places to incorporate radiant heat. Tile, marble, slate, and even hardwood are floor coverings that are cold to step onto with bare feet during winter or summer. A radiant heat product can be installed under these surfaces throughout the home and take the cold bite out of these areas. Just think: you’ll never have cold floors or feet again!

But that’s not all.  People often comment to us that another area of the home that radiant floor heating makes sense in is your basement. Basements are one of the top requested areas to add radiant heat. Due to the fact that forced air systems heat air and hot air rises the basement is usually the living space that remains cold. New construction is the best time to add radiant heat to a basement.

Radiant Floor Heating Tip: The fact is that whether you’re building a new home, or remodeling your existing home, radiant floor heating is a great way to add comfort and efficiency to the rooms in your home that are traditionally hard to heat.