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Don’t miss this boat!  With new heating systems becoming more available to homeowners today, you too could enjoy a little luxury like a toasty warm towel in your home bathroom.

Not too long ago, they were high luxury items seen only in high-end decorating magazines, television shows with tours of millionaires’ homes, and ultra-exclusive resort hotels overseas, but more and more today, towel warmers are an affordable and comfortable touch to add to residential bathrooms. Towel warmers not only warm and dry your towels, but they can also heat your entire bathroom. Now you can enjoy the comfort and style that Europeans have been enjoying for years using these heating systems.

Towel warmers, such as Zehnder bathroom radiators, provide an even and safe radiant heat source with the added benefit of warming and drying towels. The exquisite design of today’s modern towel warmers will add both beauty and warmth to your home’s bathroom.

Heating Systems Tip: Many American interior designers and builders are adopting electric heating systems as fashionable and luxurious accessories to bathrooms, basements and home offices. Take a cue from these experts in home comforts and consider all of your options on the market today for your primary and secondary heating solutions.

From coast to coast and everywhere in between, we’re finding that American homes and businesses are faced with an increasing number of options to consider for their primary and secondary heating systems. While fire places and wood- and coal-burning stoves become less popular, other alternative heating methods are quickly becoming more common, due to fuel costs and storage problems.

Another less expensive option to upgrading a poorly insulated home or to add supplemental heat to cold areas are space heaters. Thermostone heaters from Climastar can mount to a wall and heated towel warmers are a couple of heating systems that have been commonly used in Europe for decades are now gaining acceptance in the United States and are used by more and more builders and designers. Many of these new heating systems are using electricity rather than natural gas or heating oil.

What all of this demonstrates is that the traditional idea of the furnace as the primary heating system for homes and businesses alike are now being challenged by newcomers to the heating system world: radiant baseboards, radiant floor heating systems and even radiant ceiling heaters. Clearly, the dynamics of home heating systems are changing.

Heating Systems Tip: Many interior designers are adopting these electric heating systems as fashionable and luxurious accessories to bathrooms, basements and home offices.

Choosing the best heating systems for a new home or to add supplemental heat to a cold spot in your home now takes a little homework. The radiant consultants and designers at Warmzone have been trained in all of the latest heating systems to properly assess your project and prescribe a system that will add value to your home within your budget. Whether you are building a new home from the ground up, preparing to replace your heating system, or renovating an older home, knowledge of available heating systems on the market today is helpful.

Of course, while traditional sources of home heating systems like fireplaces and coal burning stoves become less popular, other alternative heating methods are quickly becoming more common. Traditional furnaces as a primary heating system are now being challenged from radiant baseboards, radiant floor heating systems and even radiant ceiling heaters. Many of these new heating systems are using electricity instead of natural gas or heating oil. Not only does this cut down on heating costs, but it is also more efficient and eco-friendly as well. Radiant heating systems are quickly replacing traditional furnaces.

Heating Systems Tip: Alternative heating systems are quickly becoming more common, including radiant baseboards, radiant floor heating systems and even radiant ceiling heaters.

How many of you are you building your dream home or maybe renovating a century-old farmhouse? If you’re thinking of radiant floor heating in your home construction, improvement, remodeling, or renovation project, we like how you’re thinking.

Perhaps you’ve heard from many people that radiant floor heating is one of the most comfortable ways to heat your home – and they are not leading you astray! As opposed to forced air heating, which heats the air, radiant heat heats objects such as your floor. This increases the level of comfort in your home as the heat is distributed at the floor level where we are usually cold, and gets cooler toward our head area, which is usually too hot. Because radiant floor heating distributes the heat in this manner, the comfortability of your home is increased. No more cold feet!

Another benefit of radiant floor heating is that it can be used for nearly any floor area. Areas such as concrete, tile, hardwood, carpet, and even linoleum can all benefit from radiant floor heating.

Radiant Floor Heating Tip: Even if you don’t have a historic renovation or restoration project to do at home, radiant floor heating can be retrofitted, in most cases, to your existing floors.

Do you take great pride in your lawn and garden in the spring and summer? Outdoor experts would agree that just because it’s wintertime and the grass isn’t green doesn’t mean you should forget about taking care of your landscaping. In the colder months, heating systems are the best option to melt the ice and to protect your landscaping. Heating systems like heated driveways actually do more than just melt snow and ice from driveways and sidewalks.

Heated driveways also help preserve your landscaping while avoiding the use of harmful salt and chemicals. Your landscaper could probably tell you that salt spread over asphalt and sidewalks to melt the ice can do a good bit of damage to lawns and landscape plants. When salt products are spread over streets and walkways, the salt inevitably splashes onto nearby foliage. The sodium chloride burns the plants and gets absorbed by the plants’ root systems.

The unfortunate truth is that alternate “ice-melt” products won’t work as effectively as outdoor heating systems, either. You see, these systems don’t use any harmful chemicals, and they melt the ice so effectively that you don’t have to do any of the work. These heating systems are state of the art but easy to install for any contractor or do-it-yourself expert.
Heating Systems Tip: Snow melting heating systems can be installed in almost any driveway and can be retrofit into existing concrete and asphalt.

Time to treat yourself! Whether you’re building a new home, or updating your current home, you owe it to yourself to check out the comfort that radiant heat has to offer. Now is the perfect time to look into your heating options. Radiant heaters can be used in a number of applications, including some that might surprise you! Among those spots that can use radiant heaters are tiled areas, hardwood flooring, carpeted areas, and even cement floors.

Not only is radiant heating is one of the most comfortable ways to heat your home, but radiant heaters also offer a diversity of applications. We’d be willing to bet that after that first winter with the radiant heaters in place, you may find yourself wondering how you ever got along without them in the past.

What’s interesting here is that, rather than warming the air, radiant heaters are a type of heater that warms objects. Radiant heat uses objects, such as the floor, to heat a home. The air in the room is warmed when it comes into contact with the warmed objects. Heat loss is reduced and the radiant heat remains in the lower part of the room, warmer near feet level and slightly less so at head level, creating the perfect climate for comfort.

Radiant Heaters Tip: Are you looking for efficient, comfortable heat for your home? We think that radiant heating could be just the solution you’ve been looking for.