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Radiant Heat for Inlay Floors

If you have a home with marble tile floors or you intend to get marble floors, you’ll be delighted to know that you can use radiant heat flooring to keep your feet warm and comfortable. Installing radiant floor heating is an energy-efficient way to stay warm in cool weather.

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Here are some of the most important things you need to know about radiant heating for marble floors.

What Is Radiant Heating?

Radiant heating is a heating system located below your floor. It transfers heat to you through your floor surface instead of the air, unlike most systems. It’s used more in homes that have marble, ceramic tile, sheet or tile vinyl and laminate flooring.

Radiant floor heating is available in three different variants: electric, hydronic and air-heated. Electric systems provide heat through electrical wires. They’re quicker and less expensive to install, but they cost more to operate. This makes them more suitable for heating small areas of the home like bathrooms and bedrooms.

Hydronic systems, on the other hand, require a higher installation cost since they need a boiler or water heater, and they have a more complicated design. This heating system offers users a more affordable operation. So, they may be installed beneath marble floors in the entire house. They use less electrical energy to operate, which is beneficial for off-grid homes or in areas with high utility prices. Different types of energy sources may be used to heat the liquid, such as solar, gas, oil or biofuel.

Air-heated radiant floors aren’t very cost-effective and aren’t usually installed in residential applications. The solar air-heating systems only produce heat during the day, so they aren’t effective in homes that need more heating at night.

Why Get Radiant Heating?

Radiant heating offers a range of benefits to homeowners, including:

  • Efficiency: It provides higher efficiency than baseboard or forced air heating by eliminating duct losses. 
  • Prevention of allergies: Radiant heating is healthier for people with allergies because it doesn’t circulate allergens the way forced-air systems do. 
  • Multiple energy sources: Heat may be obtained from different sources, from public electricity to solar and other types of renewable energy.
  • Total body comfort: The radiant floor heating keeps your feet warm which can help the rest of your body stay comfortable. 
  • Whole room heating: Radiation coming up from the floor warms the entire room with a radiant heat installation, so it’s not the floor alone that gets warmed. 
  • Energy savings: Unlike forced air heating that builds up the heat at the upper part of the room and leaves the lower parts cold, this type of heat helps you stay warm at a lower temperature. 

Radiant Heating for Marble Floors

Radiant heating is an ideal solution for heating marble floors. It provides a cost-effective solution for keeping the house warm, and it releases heat at a lower cost than other alternatives like HVAC. Marble floors with radiant heating also increase a home’s value, helping ensure you get a reasonable price when you decide to sell your home.

Get an Elegant Marble Floor With Radiant Heat

To discuss putting an elegant marble floor in your home, contact Aalto Marble Inlay today for a free consultation and quote. We offer original custom-made designs for every client.