Archive for September, 2006

Warm Floors in Alaska!

Monday, September 25th, 2006

The Alaska Star suggest some “cozy ideas for a warmer winter” (story) that clearly illustrates the benefits of radiant heated floors even in the arctic chill.
“One of the hottest trends in home renovations is to add the affordable luxury of electric radiant heat underneath the floor. Not only does it take the chill off a [...]

Rammed Earth Homes with Radiant Heat

Monday, September 25th, 2006

The Napa Valley Register has an interesting article (story) on homes constructed with rammed earth (a technique used as far back as 2,000 B.C. in Mesopotamia and ancient China) that use radiant heating to keep heating bills under $60 per month.
Lance Emerson has lived in a rammed earth home on Old Sonoma Highway in the [...]

Radiant Heat for Warm Walls?

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Warm floors from radiant heating installed “under floor” are becoming more common but how about warming your walls as well? According to Carol Abrahamson (www.extraordinaryhomes.com) its an idea whose time has come. The Akron Beacon Journal (story) reports how she she’s seen radiant heating showing up in some of the large walk-in showers being built [...]

Warmup Underfloor Heating on BBC2’s “Home” Programme

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

Warmup provided the perfect solution for luxuriously warm floors in the showcase bathroom renovation, as seen on the BBC2’s Home programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/homes/tv_and_radio/home/.
Orchestrated by Sarah Ireland, design consultant at Ripples in Cheltenham, we were asked to provide and install the underfloor heating for a new custom-designed showcase bathroom in a 300 year old farmhouse.
“I use Warmup [...]

12 Years of Underfloor Heating

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

We celebrated our 12th anniversary as the UK’s leading underfloor heating company at our International Headquarters in North London in August.
Voted one of the fastest growing companies in the UK only a few years ago, we have established sales offices in France, Portugal, Spain, Germany and the US and trade in over 11 countries [...]