Radiant Heating for Your Home

Comfortable

Radiant heating is one of the most comfortable of the heating system options available. With other heating systems heating outlets or baseboards are placed on outside walls, and the system is designed to fill the area with warm air until the preset temperature on the thermostat is reached. In these systems warm air rises to the ceiling until it cools, falling to the floor (link to flooring) for return to the furnace or to fill the convective vacuum created by a baseboard heater. With under-floor radiant heat temperatures are higher at floor level and your feet are kept nice and warm.

Since the floor is heated throughout there will not be any hot spots or cold spots and your living-space will be evenly heated. If you are considering a significant remodeling project or a new addition a radiant heating system will be a worthwhile inclusion.

Clean and Healthful

Humidification is unnecessary with a radiant heating system because radiant heat does not alter residential air moisture content and your home will retain a comfortable humidity level. If your home is properly insulated and dry and as long as outside air doesn't often infiltrate your home in the winter, room humidity will be kept at an ideal level. The lack of fans or blowers to circulate the air means that particles of dust, pet dander and other unhealthy allergens will remain on the floor for easy cleaning instead of circulating constantly all over your home.

Safe for Children and Pets

With radiant heating there will be no hot surfaces and your home will be safer for children and pets. There are no radiators or other heat emanating devices in the open so radiant heating is an extremely safe heating system. Furthermore, it will not clash with your home's aesthetics or furniture arrangements.

Energy-Efficient

This type of heating is comparable to warming yourself in the sun as it warms objects as opposed to raising the temperature of the air. Since you can keep the air temperature relatively low, you can reduce the cold air infiltration thereby reducing fuel costs by an estimated 30%.