Radiant Floor Heating is the Most Comfortable Home Heating System

Tired of adjusting a thermostat that is always too high or to low? Then you may be ready to find out for yourself that radiant floor heating is the most comfortable home heating system. Not only will you no longer be constantly adjusting a thermostat that does not keep everyone in the house at a temperature they want, you will find a vast reduction in the allergens that circulate in your home due to forced air heating. Radiant floor heating is cost effective, great for the environment, and does not create the noise generated by forced air furnace systems. Let's take a closer look at the benefits of radiant floor heating.

Even Heating

Since the radiant floor heating system directs heat from the floor upwards, every object in the room is heated that makes contact with the floor. Cold objects absorb heat, since your body is warm, when you sit in a cold chair; the chair pulls heat from your body. With radiant floor heating, the chair is warmed before you sit down, and you feel warmer constantly, because your body is not being drained of heat.

The same thing happens when you walk on a cold floor, or touch a cold bathtub. Heat rises from the floor to encompass everything in the home, no matter if you are cold natured or hot, your body maintains its temperature, and everyone feels more comfortable.

With forced air heating, the air begins to lose heat as soon as it leaves the furnace, loses even more as it passes through the heating ducts, and then cools dramatically as it meets the cool air in each room generated by the cold surfaces in the room.

Allergens

For families that have loved ones who suffer from allergies, asthma, and other respiratory problems radiant floor heating provides a healthy environment. Since there are no air currents flowing through your home, blowing dust and allergen particles, the air remains pure. We carry dust and allergens into our homes on the clothes and shoes we wear and every time a door or window is opened. Each time a forced air heating supply kicks on, it blows dust and allergens around a room, and the dust and allergens collect in the heating ducts and resettles there each time the furnace kicks off, to be redistributed over and over.

Radiant floor heating does not use air to warm a home, and the dust and allergens can be vacuumed away and never be redistributed.

Mold and mildew are a large part of the allergen problems in a home. Radiant floor heating prevents this by keeping damp surfaces in the bathrooms and kitchens dry. The moisture in a bathroom takes a long time to evaporate when it settles on a cold floor, radiant heating provides a warm surface that allows moisture to dry quickly and prevent mold and mildew from forming.

Environmentally Pro-Active

Radiant floor heating uses up to 30 percent less energy than a forced air heating system. By saving on energy fewer natural resources are used, and you can save money as well on your energy bills. Saving every kilowatt you can prevents the degradation of natural resources, and promotes the use of renewable resources by large power companies. Saving the environment is vastly important for our future as well as the future of our children and our planet.

Radiant floor heating is the best choice for heating your home, and the most comfortable way to deal with harsh winter conditions.