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Confused about radiant heat? Well, if you have ever strolled barefoot along the beach on a sunny day and felt the warm sand underneath your feet, or held a warm mug, then you have felt radiant heat. Objects absorb radiant heat until they are the same temperature as the heat source, after which the heat slowly escapes to other areas that are colder, such as the air. The same principle is available to heat your home, using electric radiant heat.

Electric radiant heat is a unique transfer of energy that naturally searches out colder objects to warm. Instead of rising like warm air, radiant heat starts by warming the coldest and closest objects from its source. This is why radiant heating systems are generally placed under floors.

As we all know, heating a bathroom can be responsible for a significant amount of your utility bills year-round. Bathroom heating is one such energy consideration because you want the heat quickly, but for only a short period of time. Therefore traditional forced air heating systems for a bathroom can be very inefficient, and waste a lot of energy. However, electric radiant heat can make you feel comfortably warm without having to heat all the air in the bathroom.

Electric Radiant Heat Tip: While you might think it’s just a cost-efficient heating system for bathrooms and kitchens, electric radiant heat can also increase the comfort level of these rooms because they concentrate the heat in the areas that are generally the coolest, such as tile floors.

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.

Has your alarm clock ever gone off and the morning DJs on the radio are carrying on about how ridiculously cold it is outside? And of course you dread getting out of bed and walking on a cold cold floor. Nobody likes to step out of bed or the shower onto a freezing cold floor. That’s why so many are opting for radiant floor heating systems to warm up their floors.

Delivering heat by air makes it easy to escape and increase your overall heat loss. Conversely, through radiant floor heating, the evenly distributed radiant heat allows homeowners to turn down the thermostat two to four degrees. This can reduce energy costs by 10-40% and can be verified with your local utility company. This setback to your thermostat can happen because a radiant floor heats from the ground up and delivers the heat through objects not air. This makes the lowest three feet of your home the most comfortable where a forced air system loses its heat to the ceiling and is required to heat from the top down.

Believe it or not, the installation of radiant floor heating is not a new development in the housing industry. Heated floors have been installed under bathroom and kitchen tile in the United States for the past decade and the warming products continue to gain popularity.

Radiant Floor Heating Tip: Many in the kitchen and bath industry expect radiant floor heating to continue to play a big role among homeowners who crave comfort features.

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.

Even without a bunch of degrees or decades of experience in the heating industry, you may easily understand that–because electric radiant heat works efficiently to heat your family’s home–it’s likely to be the best heating option for you. But if you have ever been curious as to how it works, then by all means, keep on reading.

When an electric radiant heat system is turned on, energy is forced through a conductive material to create resistance or heat. For most areas an electric line-voltage system is used. These systems use a special thermostat that has an integrated breaker for safety right at the power source

Now we’ll get a little technical for a moment, but it’s still not hard to follow. Low-voltage systems use the same voltages and consume the same amount of power as line-voltage products. The main difference is the use of a step-down transformer which reduces the voltage supplied to the heating materials. Due to their safe low-voltage current (8-30v) products like Zmesh can be nailed and stapled down to secure the product to the floor and are therefore useful for installation under hardwood and carpet. The low-voltage product we recommend is Zmesh.

Warmzone’s electric radiant heating systems offer you a choice of a thermostat that is controlled by a floor sensor to measure floor temperature or with an ambient sensor to control the actual temperature in a specific room.

Electric Radiant Heating Tip: You’ll find radiant heating to be very versatile to your plans, too. Electric radiant heat can be used and controlled as a primary source of heat or used as a supplemental heating source to add comfort to your living spaces.

What does everyone dread in the middle of a winter storm? Their home heating system going on the blink. You know it’s going to happen at the worst possible time, after all, so why not beat it to the punch and upgrade your home heating systems to radiant heat.

If you would like to know more about the heating systems that are available today, then keep on reading. A boiler works by heating hot water and then distributing it to radiators, baseboard units or radiant heat tubes that can be placed under the floor. Though not as popular as furnaces, a boiler heating system can be very efficient and makes an excellent choice if you do not need central air. Meanwhile, a furnace – powered by gas, electricity, oil or propane — uses a fan to drive hot air through your ductwork and into your home. The biggest issue with these types of forced air heating systems is their decreased efficiency.

Alternative heating systems are quickly becoming more common, including 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, which allows them to operate much more cleanly, and efficiently.

Heating Systems Tip: Radiant floor heating has always been considered a distinctive quality, so if you are building a new home or remodeling any of your floors, now is the time to add an under floor heating system for a new level of comfort and warmth.