Electric radiant heating with electric resistance cables keeps not just floors but rooms warm. It’s also noiseless and efficient and can work for a whole house or just certain rooms. Since heat rises consistently from floors, rooms stay warm from floor to ceiling.
It also keeps feet warm, which is great in bathrooms. An additional benefit is the absence of fans or blown air, keeping dust down. It’s also efficient since radiant heating doesn’t lose heat through ducts.
Radiant heating is suitable for kitchens, porches, bathrooms, bedrooms and even steam rooms and shower floors.
How does it work?
Electric-resistance floor heating cable produces the heat. It’s typically threaded through guides in thin mats that install under the floor surface.
Thermostat controllers connect to the mats and select temperature settings or start-up times, which keep costs down at night but have floors toasty by morning.
Floor heating cables are designed to be a safe application with no electromagnetic activity. They also come in multiple sizes, making them adaptable to floor areas as little as 8 square feet to rooms as large as 240 square feet. Typical ratings are 120V and 240V.
What floors work best?
Since floor heating cable is adaptable to a range of areas, it can heat various surfaces:
- Granite
- Marble
- Porcelain or ceramic
- Engineered or laminate wood
- Stonework
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