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 Carneros region of Napa for nine years. “The walls are 24 inches thick,” said Emerson. “The floors have radiant heating which can be controlled in individual rooms. Because of the thickness of the walls, the inside temperature stays consistent. In the winter, the walls absorb heat during the day and release it at night. We’re a family of four and last winter we didn’t have a heating bill over $60 a month. In the summer, we open the windows at night and close them in the morning. It stays at 65 degrees.”

Another interesting example of how radiant heating can deliver comfortable year round warmth reliably and efficiently.

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 in high-end homes. The radiant heating guards against chills in those wide-open showers and does so with less energy use than heating the whole room conventionally.

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 undertile heating in all my designs. Not only do they provide quality products but they offer a lifetime guarantee on their heaters and a SafetyNet guarantee, should you have a mishap during installation. It’s easy to install and affordable.”

You can feel the warmth of undertile heating on the Warmup booth (#215) at the London Homebuilding & Renovating Show, ExCel, 22-24 September. Visit warmup.com for more information and a chance to receive free tickets.

We are a global supplier of floor heating products and manufacture our own heaters in the UK, ensuring the highest quality products. For additional information, contact Mary Wyatt on 0845 345 2288; email marywyatt@warmup.com; or visit our website: www.warmup.com

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 globally.

On hand to celebrate was the Warmup’s Board, including Chairman Andrew Stimpson who commented: “We have seen Warmup go from strength to strength. Continually improving and expanding our product lines coupled with our unique guarantees help to make us a leader in undertile heating.”

A global supplier of floor heating products since 1994, we manufacture our own heaters in the UK, ensuring the highest quality products. We offer a unique lifetime guarantee on all our products in addition to a SafetyNet guarantee on accidents during installation. For additional information, contact Mary Wyatt on +44 845 345 2288; email marywyatt@warmup.com; or visit: http://www.warmup.com/

Kansas City Star reports a new type of construction designed to reduce heating costs and improve environmental performance.

Craft, owner of Kaw Valley Home Care, is promoting the use of concrete in new homes. He’s built one home in east Lawrence with concrete walls and floors, and he said the home stayed below 80 degrees during a recent week of 100-degree temperatures — without running the air conditioning.

The home’s walls are 8 inches of cement sandwiching 4 inches of Styrofoam, with the floors also made of concrete. That allowed Craft to heat the home entirely with radiant heat.

Craft predicts utility bills for the 1,500-square-foot home will be about 75 percent less than in a traditional house, though he won’t know for a while because construction was just completed.

“I think most of the time, the utility bill will just be the minimum charge that the utility companies make you pay,” Craft said.

Craft built the home without a buyer, betting that someone will be attracted to the energy efficiency enough to pay a little less than $200,000 for it. And he’s planning on building more.

Article reprinted courtesy of The Kansas City Star - full article

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 and more homeowners choose an alternative method of heating their homes that not only saves their feet from cold tile, but provides several other benefits too. The method is radiant heating……………. Read complete article (deseretnews.com).

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 opening of the new Thermae Bath Spa (the waters were closed to the public in 1978 following a health scare) where you may wallow in the waters of the mineral-rich, natural hot springs.

The Roman Baths include the West Baths which contain an exceptionally well preserved set of pilae - piles of tiles through which hot air circulated to heat the floor and walls of the room above. Find out more about underfloor heating the Roman Way.

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 produce efficient and comfortable heating but employs the whole floor as a radiator to gently and evenly warm you and your home. Please check the full benefits of radiant heat for your home or office.

For more information on how Warmup can provide you with effective underfloor radiant heating please visit our website at www.warmup.com.

You can be assured of the reliability of your electric underfloor radiant heating system as Warmup offers a 30 Year transferable warranty.

To see the full details of this warranty click here or to submit a warranty return online click here.

Warmup’s Underfloor heating system has been chosen by Tara Bernerd in her latest show ‘The Wow Factor’.

The Wow Factor!, UKTV Style’s latest hit series, is an interior design show with a touch of class…Super designer Tara Bernerd offers ten regular homeowners the vital element that is missing – inspiration and golden design rules. Tara aims to tell the audience how to avoid deadly design and DIY traps. Setting out easy-to-follow rules, she teaches how to produce long lasting, sustainable and more importantly achievable design on a budget. So when Tara went shopping for underfloor heating for a kitchen makeover, she chose a company that provides just that – affordable luxury with a Lifetime Guarantee from Warmup.

On Tuesday nights at 7pm, UKTV Style presents Tara’s latest tricks and tips and for her show on May 30, she explained how Warmup upgrades a state-of-the-art designer kitchen with luxurious underfloor heating.

Warmup PLC, the UK’s leading supplier of electric underfloor heating systems, provides loose wire and matting systems for undertile heating. Both are very simple to install within a few hours, no matter what size or shape of room. To give the customers the peace of mind, they have been craving, Warmup offers a Lifetime Warranty and Safety Net Guarantee on its heating systems – should they accidentally damage the heating element during installation, Warmup will replace it free of charge*.

For more information about Warmup visit Warmup and for more about the series, see UKTV Style.

* For Terms and Conditions see Warmup.