Under Tile Floor Heating?

[Carole]

We're getting ready to tile the bathroom floor and trying to decide if we should intall under tile floor heating. Anyone have it? Pros or cons?

 

[cristit14]

We LOVE ours. It is so nice in the winter to have a nice toasty warm floor. We have it on a timer that turns it on early morning, maybe around 430 starts warming up and then turns off later in the morning while we are gone for the day.

 

[lsyorke]

When we redo the bathroom, this is a MUST in my book.

 

[yoopermom]

We have infloor heating throughout our small house (pergo in main rooms, tile in bathroom) and we LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it. I have dust allergies, and this is so nice because there's no..well...dust. And it's quiet. And it's warm on the feet. And it's warm enough that the dogs choose to lie on it, even the one with arthritis. Would never have anything else if we could afford it.

Terri

 

[KAMKIM]

I have never been in a bathroom with this but I would imagine that I would LOVE it! If I redid my bathroom this would be a definite.

 

[bicker]

I've never read a bad review of radiant floor heating (at least not since they perfected the technology, about 6-7 years ago I think).

 

[Mermaid02]

We LOVE ours. It is so nice in the winter to have a nice toasty warm floor. We have it on a timer that turns it on early morning, maybe around 430 starts warming up and then turns off later in the morning while we are gone for the day.

This is the set up we have- we absolutely love it!

 

[Carole]

Thanks everyone. It's around $900 to have installed when they do the tile. I might have to give into my husband and agree!

 

[Galahad]

We have it in our kitchen and solarium. It's great. It's very difficult to install correctly (or rather, it's easy to install incorrectly) and almost impossible to fix if they get it wrong. Make sure your contractor has a lot of experience.

 

[Disney Doll]

Have it in our bathroom. Love it!
The only "con" I can see is if if malfunctions, the repair would probably consitute tearing up tile.

Truthfully, the bathroom we have it in is our upstairs bath, which was an a dormer addition, with a dormer big enough to contain the bathroom. When we were doing it, the electrician suggested that we do the radiant floor heat and also do a small hot air wall heater thing that we can turn off and on at our will.

The rest of our house has hot water heat, but there is no raditator in the bathroom, nor was there a place to put one, hence the radiant floor heat.

For the most part, the bathroom is quite warm and comfortable with the radiant floor heat. Occasionally, in the really frigid days of winter, I will put on the hot air blower when I get into the shower so that when I get out, there is that little bit of extra warmth.But, bwtween the radiant floor heat and the heat from the rest of the house, the bathroom is fine 95% of the time.

If it ever breaks, my guess is that the air blower will be used a bit more frequently!