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Warmzone Blog
July 2nd, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
Radiant heating is a triple threat: Comfort, efficiency, and diversity, all in one. 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. Radiant heaters can be used in a number of applications in residential homes or businesses, including Tiled areas, with H\hardwood flooring, carpeted areas, and even cement floors (such as in basements, garages, or even heated driveways or sidewalks).
Radiant heaters are a type of heater that warms objects instead of air. 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. Seeing (or, rather, feeling) is believing.
If you don’t know much about radiant heat, we think you’ll definitely find it worthwhile to check out further. 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.
Radiant heating is a triple threat: Comfort, efficiency, and diversity, all in one. 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. Radiant heaters can be used in a number of applications in residential homes or businesses, including Tiled areas, with H\hardwood flooring, carpeted areas, and even cement floors (such as in basements, garages, or even driveways or sidewalks).
Radiant heaters are a type of heater that warms objects instead of air. 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. Seeing (or, rather, feeling) is believing.
If you don’t know much about radiant heat, we think you’ll definitely find it worthwhile to check out further. 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.
Radiant Heaters Tip: Radiant heaters help to keep the whole house at a more constant temperature.
: Radiant heaters help to keep the whole house at a more constant temperature.

June 25th, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
As demands for lower energy costs increase, homebuilders, househunters, and home renovators alike are looking for energy-efficient heating options for houses. We say they need look no further than radiant heaters for their ideal home heating solution.
In a nutshell, radiant heating is among the most efficient forms of heat available in today’s market. Significantly less operating time is required to attain and maintain the desired warmth compared to furnaces and other, traditional methods of heating, which keeps operational costs to a minimum.
High efficiency boilers or electric radiant floor systems makes radiant heat one of your most efficient ways to heat your home. Combined with a well-insulated home, these radiant heater systems can quickly warm your home and then shut down or wait idle for long periods of time before being called upon by the thermostat to operate.
Radiant Heaters Tip: Being more environmentally friendly doesn’t have to involve major renovations. Many people waste a lot of energy by not sealing cracks, doors and windows. Checking to make sure a home’s insulation is in good shape and replacing it if it’s not is another good surefire way to stop, prevent, and reverse energy waste.

June 18th, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
What a pain! If you or anyone in your family has asthma or dust allergies, you know all too well how miserable these ailments can make a person. Many allergy and asthma experts will advise certain changes in housekeeping habits to help alleviate allergy- or asthma-causing conditions in your home. In addition, you might consider changing your heat source to radiant heaters.
At first glance, you might not think that radiant heaters could be such a simple solution to helping keep your home healthy. In reality, radiant heaters improve the air quality, which is important, especially for anyone who suffers from either dust allergies or asthma. Not having to change air filters or clean heating ducts should also cut down dramatically on dust or other allergens in your home’s air.
Eliminating dust mites that live in your home would also go a long way towards helping keep your home healthy. Since dust mites love a warm moist environment, towel heaters and other radiant heater systems aid in maintaining a consistent room temperature and keep it moisture-free…and dust mite-free, too. Furthermore, mold and mildew are also caused from excessive moisture especially in bathrooms with insufficient ventilation.
Radiant Heater Tip: By placing radiant heaters or a radiant heat towel rack in the bathroom you can combat the spread of germs for only pennies a day.

June 13th, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
In general, in today’s housing market, it’s not a bad idea to add value to your home in new and innovative ways. Don’t just think about renovating a bathroom, you should consider using radiant heaters to warm towel racks in the bathroom, or a heated floor. Can you think of anything cozier on a chilly winter morning than toasty toes when you step out of the shower?
Not only is radiant heating is one of the most comfortable ways to heat your home, but radiant heaters also offer a surprisingly wide diversity of applications. Radiant heaters can be used in a number of applications, including in tiled areas, hardwood flooring, carpeted areas, cement floors, basements, and garages.
Radiant heaters are a type of heater that warms objects instead of air. 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: 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.

June 11th, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
If you’ve ever vacationed in a fancy hotel or resort and notices the heated tile flooring, you’ve probably never forgotten how wonderful a feeling it was to step out of the shower onto warm tile. If you haven’t experienced this…put it on your to do list.
You may be wondering just how does radiant floor heating work? Simply put, it heats the floor with electrical resistance cables that are spread evenly and sandwiched between layers of durable fabric. The fabrics used vary depending on the manufacturer or brand. Some use mortar with heating mats or rolls of heating sheets. All of these options are easy to install yourself or can be quickly installed by your flooring installer. If you choose to install the radiant floor heating system yourself, you will want to have a certified electrician connect the controls to a programmable thermostat for the ultimate efficiency.
Radiant Floor Heating Tip: Not only is radiant floor heating more comfortable, but the costs of operating radiant floor heating systems are often reported to be significantly decreased as compared to other residential heating options.

June 6th, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
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

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