Archive for the 'Radiant Heat' Category

Warmup® Increases its Underlaminate Heating Warranty to 30 years

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Now Warmup® offers you an outstanding 30 year warranty on their ultra-thin, technologically-advanced Carbon Heating System designed specifically for Underlaminate and Engineered Wood floors, giving you even greater peace of mind. As an added bonus, Warmup also permits a one-time warranty transfer for homeowners.
Warmup Carbon Heaters are:

The only Carbon-UL Listed Underlaminate floor heaters in North [...]

Qualified Remodeler readers choose Warmup’s Floor Heating System

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

The votes are in … Qualified Remodeler readers have chosen Warmup’s Radiant Electric Floor Heating System as the “Remodelers’ Choice” product of the month. This product generated the highest amount of requests of any other product featured in the November issue.
Cold Floor Syndrome is quickly becoming a thing of the past as companies and technologies [...]

Radiant Heating

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Aesthetics, Cleanliness, Control, Environmental & Economic Efficiency. All great reasons driving the growth of radiant heating. The growing popularity of radiant heating with todays value-concious and environmentally concerned home owners is testament to these benefits.

Would you rather have radiators or a totally invisible heating system?
Would you rather have hot/cold spots and draughts or comfortable warm [...]

Underfloor Heating keeps dogs warm!

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

A brand new kennel has opened in Uddingston (Scotland) with underfloor heating to keep the dogs warm and cozy. The new kennel is a rehoming centre where orphaned and abandoned dogs are looked after until new homes can be found.
The rehoming centre (owned by the charity Dogs Trust) takes great care to keep the dogs [...]

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 [...]

Radiant heat: a way to warm the tootsies

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

We’ve all had the experience. You wake up early and stumble to the shower. The carpeted bedroom and hallway are fine, but one step on the tile bathroom floor and you shock your tootsies wide awake. That floor is cold!
It may be a welcome feeling in summer, but it’s torture in winter.
We are seeing more [...]

Underfloor Heating (the old way)

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

If you’d like to experience undefloor heating the way it used to be then you could do worse than to visit Bath (England) where you will find one of the finest preserved Roman Baths with Hypocaust (underfloor heating system).
You can also once again bathe in the warm spring waters that power the system with the [...]

Radiant Heat & Radiant Heaters

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Radiant heaters are available from a range of manufacturers and are gaining in popularity as they offer a very efficient and quick method of generating local heating - typically they are powered by electricity or gas. Bionaire offer a good range of radiant heaters.
The Warmup radiant underfloor heating system uses the same principle to [...]