I plan to redo the floors in my home and when that happens, I am getting radiant heating.
- My husband likes the idea of all the flooring in my house being the same.
He wants the living room, kitchen, hallway and bedrooms all to be the same porcelain, grey tile. I am not too keen on this idea, but he wants it and is willing to pay for it. I did some reading online and tile is the best type of flooring for radiant heating. Carpet traps the heat and makes it not as effective. Wood flooring is better, but not great for this heating system. The only way to get radiant heating is to rip up the current flooring and replace it with new. We are already doing that! It feels like fate is telling me I need this heating system. Since my husband is footing the tile bill, I am willing to do the heating installation bill. I did some hunting online and I can buy the electric heated mats at my local hardware store rather than a HVAC company. I also don’t need to hire a HVAC professional to do the installation either. Apparently if you chose to do hydronic heating, which requires piping and a boiler, you need a HVAC worker. Electric radiant flooring is simply placing mats down on the cement board before the tile is laid. I watched some youtube videos and it looks pretty straight forward. My husband told me all that work is on me. If we tile over the mats and they don’t work, that will be my fault totally. So no pressure or anything right?
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