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Nothing else can compare to the extraordinary comfort offered through in-floor electric radiant heat. Combined with the proper cooling system, electric radiant floor heat offers the most efficient and comfortable living conditions available in any climate.
One major plus to electric radiant heat is amazing comfort. Doesn’t seem important to you? Well, have you ever noticed during the winter how your feet can be icy cold, while you’re upper body and head are sweating? This is because traditional forced air heating puts the heat in the air, which rises to our head level. This leaves the air at our feet cold, and the air at our head hot. This is really not optimal, because our upper body and head areas are generally hot due to the fact that this is where the majority of our body heat escapes. Having electric radiant heat in the floor increases our comfort by bringing the heat to our feet, which leaves the air at head level cooler. This scenario creates the perfect level of comfort.
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 – either during construction or even later during a remodeling.
Electric Radiant Heat Tip: Your radiant system could use up to 30% less fuel than the average new forced air heating system.

Back when we were growing up, we probably expected life in the twenty-first century would be full of cool technological advances. Maybe everyone didn’t dream of heating that’s embedded in a home’s flooring, but that’s exactly what is available now. It’s actually a kind of residential (or business) heating system that has been used overseas for some time, and is now becoming well-known and more commonly used here in the U.S. Instead of warming air and then circulating it throughout your home using ducts and vents, electric radiant heating is embedded under your floor and uses the entire floor to evenly distribute low-temperature heat.
No matter the method, technology, or system used, a homeowner quickly discovers that the benefits of electric radiant heat are the same. 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 in any direction. Since floors are usually cold, radiant heating systems are commonly placed under them.
Electric Radiant Heat Tip: Whether you’re renovating your current home or building your dream home, you’ll soon find that electric radiant heat is available for many different applications, including bathrooms, kitchens, heated towel racks, and heated walls and ceilings.

Don’t cover your beautiful ceramic tile, marble, or stone floors with rugs—now you can install radiant floor heating and show your floor’s beauty and allow them to give you the heat you want at the same time! The feeling of warmth under your feet when it’s cold and snowing outside is like no other.
Radiant Heating also offers you complete control of temperature room by room in your house. Not only that, its operation is completely quiet. Radiant floor heating has even heat distribution and will not effect the furniture placement as it uses no radiators or heat vents. It is easy to install, is very energy efficient. There are also no filters to change or clean, which saves you additional time and money. There is also no dust or dirt forced into your air to breathe, which is extremely beneficial for those who suffer from allergies.
So how does radiant floor heating work? It simply heats the floor with electrical resistance cables that are spread evenly and sandwiched between layers of durable fabric. All these options are easy to install yourself or can be quickly installed by your flooring installer. If you choose to install the system yourself, you will want to have a certified electrician hook up the controls to a programmable thermostat.
Radiant Floor Heating Tip: Not only is radiant floor heating more comfortable, but the costs of operating radiant floor heating systems are nominal as compared to other heating options.

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 electric radiant heating 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 hazard a guess 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.
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: If you’re looking for efficient, comfortable heat for your home, radiant heating could the solution you’ve been looking for.

Outdoor settings like patios or pathways leading to a hot tub can now benefit from using a traditional hydronic radiant heating system or even more intriguing is the emerging trend of embedding electric heating cables to provide that desired surface temperature. Raising the surface above 38 degrees will conveniently remove any snow or ice and allow you to use your outdoor living areas more often, not to mention safely and comfortably.
For folks in snowy climates, being able to entertain outdoors year-round has been just a dream, but thanks to an outdoor heating system that dream can become a reality. Whether it’s winter or fall, or even a chilly spring, an outdoor heating system enables you to have a comfortable, heated entertaining space year-round.
You might wonder how an outdoor heating system works; well, it’s similar to how indoor radiant heat works. Radiant heat warms the floor and any object in contact with the floor to distribute an even, no-draft heat.
A good many do-it-yourselfers will have no problem laying out the cable for the outdoor heating systems and preparing them for a certified electrician to do the final connections.
Outdoor Heating System Tip: If you entertain at your home often, consider installing an outdoor heating system.

A buddy of mine confided in me yesterday that he’s not looking forward to going to his in-laws’ for their vacation this spring.  Not because he doesn’t enjoy their company, but because he knows that there are some areas of their homes that are practically freezing while other areas are comfortable and warm.  And it’s usually the guest room!  It’s a common problem with traditional heating systems, but is easily solved by installation and use of electric radiant heating systems.
Such electric radiant heating systems can be easily and independently controlled by zone, enabling a homeowner to increase the temperature for defined areas of the home during occupancy and conversely allows a particular zone to remain off during down times.  It might remind you of a programmable thermostat on traditional heating systems.  It is similar to that, but actually far more efficient and controllable.
Use of electric radiant heat systems not only saves the homeowner money, it gives complete control to efficiently warm your most used living spaces without fearing an enormous utility bill at the end of the month.
Electric Radiant Heat Tip:  The radiant consultants and designers at Warmzone have been trained in all of the latest heating systems to properly assess your project and prescribe an electric radiant heat system that will add value to your home inside of your budget