| One of the most popular bathroom design ideas is to | | | | put under your bathroom floors. Electric is perhaps |
| install radiant floor heat. Do you wake up early in the | | | | the cheapest and easiest method of radiant heat as |
| morning only to be shocked at how cold the tile is on | | | | it entails putting electric coils under the floor. These |
| your bathroom floor? Most bathrooms have tile or | | | | can be bought and come in patches which you can |
| some other cold hard surface and putting in radiant | | | | install or have a professional install. Electric radiant |
| heat below the floor is something you can do that is | | | | heat works just like the coils in your toaster. When |
| not too expensive. | | | | electricity is run through the metal coils they heat up |
| Many bathrooms have some sort of tile on the floor | | | | and in turn heat up your bathroom floor. |
| and one of the concerns of having a tiled bathroom | | | | The second type of radiant heat floors is hydronic |
| floor is that people might think the tiles are cold to | | | | heat which involves putting pipes beneath your |
| the feet and can be uncomfortable. While it is true | | | | bathroom floor. The pipe then carries warm water |
| that tile is cooler than many bathroom floor materials, | | | | through it which in turn heats the floor. This is more |
| it is really not that cold to the touch. If you think | | | | involved to install properly and anything with pipes |
| your bathroom tiled floor is too cold, installing radiant | | | | and running water has some chance of leaking and |
| floor heat is the perfect solution. | | | | having other complications. |
| Putting radiant floor heat in most average size | | | | There are many bathroom design ideas to consider |
| bathrooms will cost somewhere between $400 and | | | | and installing radiant heat floors is one of the ones |
| $800 dollars. You must consider, however, the value | | | | you may be glad you did for years to come. Having |
| of your home will increase and any home with radiant | | | | heated floors in your bathroom is a luxury you will |
| heat floors will be easier to sell when that time | | | | always be able to enjoy and once you have it |
| comes. So few homes have radiant heat now days | | | | installed you will forget how cold those bathroom |
| that it has become a real plus to have it. | | | | floors once were! |
| There are two types of radiant heat that you can | | | | |