Radiant Heat Is Your Best Choice
October 29, 2009 by Sammie Johnson
Filed under Skin Care
What a wonderful feeling, when you enter a friend’s house and step on floors that are warm and heated. Many of us may have considered radiant heated floor installation, but will never follow through with the thought. It seems like a great deal of annoyance to tear up your floors to gain access underneath, and the excessive price is also a deterrent.
On the rare occasions when radiant heat is installed in a home, it is most often found in the kitchen or master bathroom. Generally, it is the high-end homes that this option may be available. It is the expense, and installation headaches that will keep most homeowners from ever experiencing the enjoyment of radiant heat in their homes.
Radiant heat under your floors would be such a welcome change after a winter spent with dry heat circulating in your home. Radiant heat is different in that it does not act to swirl hot air around the house from room to room. You will never experience the drying out of your skin that comes from forced air heat, as radiant heat heats as it gradually rises. You cannot detect when radiant heat turns on as it runs completely silent.
Radiant heat is more expensive to install, and is therefore seldom seen. Homebuilders are, after all, trying to make a decent profit, and the high cost of installing radiant heat would cost them more money. It is a sad fact that most of us will never really know how great radiant heat can be.
In weighing the pros and cons of radiant floor heat, a main consideration would be your available budget. Both hydronic and electric radiant heat are quite costly. So, that is why you may find this type of heat installed in only a few rooms, the master bathroom being a popular choice. A key advantage to radiant heat is that it is much gentler to your skin in the dry winter air. You truly need to experience both the dry forced air and radiant heat to appreciate the difference.
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