Electric Radiant Floor heating Thousands of people across America are already experiencing the luxury and comfort of electric radiant floor heating in their homes. Bathrooms transform into tranquil spa-like retreats. Kitchens become so much more than a place to cook meals, but transform into a room where the whole family can gather to relax and enjoy!  Whether you choose the family room, master bedroom suite, or any room where you would like that cozy, warm and relaxing atmosphere… a radiant floor heating system is the perfect solution for carpet, laminate or tile flooring. This wafer-thin mat is installed discreetly between your padding and flooring selection. With such a streamline installation, you may be tempted to do it yourself! Radiant floor warming systems install directly in between the pad and the under carpet or floating wood floors to provide even, room-filling heat that virtually eliminates cold spots. It can even be insalled under ceramic tile in kitchens or bathrooms. The system’s highly efficient, low profile design will not add to the height of your flooring, and can be professionally installed by your existing floor covering specialist, or you can buy do-it-yourself kits and save the installation bucks. Benefits of Using electric radiant floor heating Keeping warm with radiant foor heat doesn’t require spending a lot of money. Energy efficient UL approved floor heating systems cost only pennies a day to operate and can heat an ample size 12’x20’ family room for just 58 cents a day (Full 10-hour cycle). The thin electric TempZone mats are placed above the sub-floor, just under the flooring material. They will heat the floor in 30 to 60 minutes under tile. They are controlled by a timer and a thermostat and in most cases, the homeowners will preset ON-OFF cycles to provide heat only WHEN he/she needs it and WHERE he/she needs it (selecting rooms and heating from your feet up). Electric radiant floor heating systems use an electric resistance cable, sometimes assembled into a mat or a roll (conceptually similar to an electric blanket) to heat up the flooring material above the pad. Thin electric systems will elevate the floor by only 1/8", which is easy to work with during a remodeling project. You normally don’t face problems with clearance under doors or joints to other rooms. Electric radiant floor heating systems have no moving parts and require no maintenance. If you do have a problem with a broken element, an underground fault detector can find the exact location of the break and after breaking just one or two tiles it is easier to splice the electric cable and replace the few tiles removed. Electric Radiant Floor Heating systems are easy to install.  Just about any flooring contractor can easily add the floor heating system when building your home or replacing a floor covering. Do-it-youself kits are also available and the savy home owner can do the job for less than you think. “Zone Heating” from SpeedHeatOffers an Ideal Solution “With the proliferation of today’s more spacious homes, the simple concept of ‘zone heating’ is becoming popular to easily reduce heating costs,” says Peter Newman, president of Speedheat US. “Zone heating simply involves heating the occupied rooms in your home while allowing unoccupied areas to remain cooler.” Mark and Rhonda Havlish are using the concept of “zone heating” to their advantage. They turn on the Speedheat® panels when they are using the family room and turn them off when not in use. They have also been able to turn down their thermostat and still stay warm. “We have always had to have extra blankets on our chairs for those chilly nights, and I have put them all away,” Mrs. Havlish says. “It’s amazing what a little warmth on the floor can do to keep the entire room comfortable.” According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), “zone heating can produce energy savings of more than 20 percent compared to heating both occupied and unoccupied areas of your house.” How to Cut Energy Use Up to 40 Percent For those desiring even greater energy savings, the Radiant Heating and Cooling Handbook calculates that for every 10 degrees the thermostat is lowered, energy consumption is reduced by approximately 40 percent. While saving this amount of energy is certainly desirable, staying comfortable is also important. With Speedheat, users can enjoy the best of both worlds.  Speedheat warms from the ground up and produces evenly heated rooms that are more comfortable at lower temperatures. So, when Speedheat is installed throughout a home, users can easily reduce the thermostat by 10 degrees or more and still remain comfortable.  “Until you have ‘experienced’ radiant floor heating, it is difficult to fully comprehend,” says Mr. Pieter Jansens, chairman of Speedheat International. “Because the radiant heat warms ‘you’ and not the air, you actually ‘feel’ warmer at lower thermostat settings. While the temperature around you is lower, your ‘comfort level’ is actually higher.” In addition to the “under carpet” heating system selected by the Havlish’s, Speedheat also offers electric radiant floor heating panels that can be used under virtually any floor covering. Speedheat’s installed heating panels also feature fully programmable thermostats.  RugBuddy Offers “Zone Heating” with Plug-n-Warm Simplicity Another unique “zone heating” option is RugBuddy™ — the only UL-listed heating mat in the world, approved for use under area rugs. Like an electric blanket for the floor, RugBuddy™ turns regular area rugs into invisible space heaters. It is an ideal solution when installing traditional electric radiant floor heating is not an option. electric Radiant Floor Heating Manufacturers & Suppliers Warmly Yours 1-800-875-5285 Speedheat International 1-888-927-6356 Speedheat 1-888-WARM FLOOR Radiant Floor Warming 1-888- FLR-WARM (357-9276) Runtal North America 1-800-526-2621 Warmzone 1-888-488-WARM Heatizon 1-801-293-1232