Rooms like additions, mudrooms, porches, sunrooms and garages may be great candidates for in-floor electric radiant heating, especially if adding HVAC ducting or plumbing would be difficult. Electric in-floor heating cable systems are also reasonably priced and essentially maintenance free.Įlectric in-floor heat also solves the problem of adding heat to add-on rooms that would be hard to connect to an existing HVAC system. Both of my recent installs used electric radiant heat.Įlectric radiant heating systems are relatively DIY floor-reno friendly and are easy to add to floor re-builds or new construction. Water radiant heat is cheaper to run but requires the complexity of plumbing and boilers.
Electric radiant heat is more expensive to run, but easier to install. Radiant heating is generally available as electric or water (hydronic) based systems.
This article walks through my installation of electric radiant in-floor heat in our recently remodeled sunroom and entry mudroom. Radiant in-floor heat provides some of the most comfortable and targeted heating for living spaces when installed and operated correctly. Waking up to warm floors on a cool day is hard to beat. Radiant in-floor heat systems are fantastic.
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