It takes more than a few minutes for the floors to come to the pre-set temperature if they have been off. Longer than heating an oven.
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I don’t have the specifics but I believe the radiant heating in the floor was leaking which created water damage. Everything damaged had to be fixed, plus the floor had to be pulled up to fix the leaking pipe in the floor.
This is what I was referring to in my comment, “not worth the time to heat up” and contributes to why I am not in favor of heated floors for my personal use. It’s not a good match for my usage pattern – little personal benefit and several negatives.
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Oh so that was a different type of radiant heat. We decided not to put an offer on a house where the entire house was heated like that. Most bathroom floors use resistive heating, not circulating fluid heating.
Our friend did have issues with her bathroom floor. Some tiles cracked possibly of the temperature change. When tiles were repaired, the wiring was damaged and could not be repaired without ripping out the entire floor. So she just left it as is.
Yes…this is what we are looking at…but probably won’t get…
Yes to this!
We put a heated floor in when we redid a bathroom and love it. Craziest thing is my daughter would sometimes sit on the warm floor to do her homework.
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How about this! We have a friend who used the radiant heat idea for the island in their kitchen. It’s under the granite on their island. No more cold granite when the mornings are chilly. It’s amazing, and I definitely would do that in my next house!
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98.6 is the inside body temperature. Skin temperature is much lower. My main heating is floor heat. I set it at 70 and leave it alone during winter. I feel the warmth on my bare feet. No forced air. Quiet and comfortable. It heats evenly. I also think it is less drying but it may be just my imagination.
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Yes, I have them throughout my main bedroom suite and bathroom and think they are the best thing since sliced bread. We have slate floors, our house is a mid-century Usonian; they have lasted. I have allergies and so prefer to avoid forced air - it’s nice to not have baseboard or other radiators.
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We live in the southwest. You definitely don’t need heated floors here. In fact, having cold floors is preferable, so hard surfaces in a common spaces in a home (usually tile) are sought after. Usually tile instead of wood because wood floors don’t stand up too well over time in the weather in this part of the US.
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Is it a Frank Lloyd Wright home? I don’t know if he designed all his houses to be heated via floor, but one of the Usonians in Madison WI was.
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I think most, if not all, Usonians have heated floors. They have served us well.
We have a heated floor in our primary bathroom and love it. Between that and our Toto washlet, we never want to leave home, LOL. We got the radiant heat under the travertine tiles we installed during a renovation in 2012. We did have to replace the wall thermostat a few years ago, but we were able to order it on Amazon and it was trivial to replace.
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