Radiant Heated Flooring

Radiant Floor Heating

Radiant floor heating turns a floor into a large-area, low-temperature radiator. In most modern radiant floor heating systems, warm water circulates through plastic tubing either embedded in a floor slab or attached to the underside of subflooring...

Radiant Floor Cooling

Although radiant floor cooling has a limited scope of applications where it is viable, in specific applications, radiant floor cooling is an effective means of providing cooling comfort...

Advantages of Radiant Floor Heating

Radiant heated flooring offers a number of significant benefits including increased comfort, energy savings, quiet operation, fexible room layout, better air quality and the potential use with solar energy and geothermal heat pumps...

Disdvantages of Radiant Floor Heating

Radiant floor heating is usually a superb heat-delivery system but super energy efficient green buildings may not be suited to it. Overheating, time lag and heat loss can be issues but economically, radiant floor heating may be overkill...

How Radiant Heating Differs From Other Heating

Radiant heating systems heat things rather than directly heating air. By contrast, traditional heating systems heat air, and the warm air heats things it comes into contact with through convection and conduction...

Types of Radiant Heated Flooring

An overview of the types of radiant heated flooring including air-heated, electric radiant heated flooring and hydronic radiant flooring. Also covered are "wet" and "dry" floor installations...

Hydronic Radiant Floor Heating

Hydronic radiant floor heating is a system of plastic or metal tubes/pipes laid within a floor that carries hot water into specific rooms or "zones," dispersing the heat through the floor surface...

The Best Floor Coverings for Radiant Heated Flooring

Whatever floor covering is used needs to have as little resistance to heat transfer as possible. There are many options - from ceramic, marble and stone to hardwoods and carpet - but...

Why Use Under-floor Heating?

Under-floor heating works by circulating water through pipe loops laid under the floor, effectively making the floor one large radiator, but at a lower surface temperature than a normal radiator...

What to Look for in an Electric Radiant Floor Heat System

If you are considering electric radiant heated flooring we offer some tips on what to look for: easy installation, UL or ETL approval, electo-magnetic field issues, thermal cut-off and other safety issues, availability and warranties.