Heated Floors

We have a similar product in our bathroom. Its basically the same, just in single wire form, not on mesh. No way we could go without now. The wife wouldnt let me. Its real nice to step onto a warm floor in the mornings.

The heat will not really spread across the floor. If you want toasty tootsies, you must put mat under everywhere you want it, like around the toilet, in front of the tub, at the sink etc. Dont cheap out! The heat around the toilet will not spread to the sink area!! The floor will be ice cold wherever there is no wire.

I installed ours when I remodeled the bathroom, my advise is to stick with the mat ones as opposed to the wire. The wire was a nightmare to keep under the self leveling compound. The mat will lay nice and flat.

Its really for floor warming not heating. There is a little heat output into the room, but not that much.

I know one thing, my next house will be all hydronicly infloor heated, likely with some sort of wood boiler. Its really nice.

 

I've got a customer that likes his in floor heat so much he also had installed in the tile wall's, floor, and bench of his master walk in shower. He says soaking in the hot shower with warm walls melts the aches and pains away... I wish I would have heard of this before I remodeled our bathroom.

 

Yes, bathmat.

No way its a fire danger. The floor just gets warm, the digital control for the floor is set for 28C. The floor gets no warmer than that.

 

In floor boiler heat is THE BOMB. It's really that good.

We had it at my dad's plumbing and boiler shop.

 

YW. Other than added electric cost (about $20/mth here) there is no downside to heated floors in the BR. You'll be very happy if you do this.

 

Wildwest, This is the exact system I installed in our home. The bathroom was 5'x6'(I think) plus a full size tub. Cost=cheap, not bad for the comfort it provides. Cost of running it? lmao.. Pennies a day. We saw NO noticeable increase in our electric bill. I doubt it was $15 a month. Installation was simple. It comes with a dvd and you can youtube it and check manufacturers website. easy. I bought the mat a little longer than we needed and cut the mesh and flipped the cut section to heat a little more floor. Don't install it to close to the toilet, they say it may soften the wax ring on the toilet. We got the simple thermostat and left it set pretty warm. It ran constant. If we closed the bathroom door there was a noticeable difference in room temp. Made for nice early morning comfort. No risk of fire leaving clothes or towels on the floor. The old dogs liked it. lol.

I have used this product and will use it again and I will not install tile in my home without it.

 

I install garage doors and openers for a living. Yesterday I installed doors at a home with new homeowners. They had their first woodstove. It's a hearthstone Mansfield maybe? Anyway it is a big stove and the previous owner installed a stainless coil inside the stove and runs water through it to copper lines leading to a pump and lines through out the living room. Pretty neat system. I hope to stay in touch with them to see how they like it and how it works. I'm hoping to find a solution to introduce heat from our woodstove to our basement. Just another idea for in floor heating

 

Thought I would clarify, the system I saw first had scorch a towel was a very old system in stalled in the 70's... today's systems don't have the fire risk, if installed correctly.

~Nathan

 

I like that idea. Maybe a heat exchanger and a fan to blow the hot air? I think you would need a fair amount of tubing by the stove to be able to cover heat losses from cold water/antifreeze getting pumped in. Obviously you would need to size the circulation pump properly.