Dec 02
What a wonderful feeling, when you enter a friend’s house and step on floors that are warm and heated. Many of us may have considered radiant heated floor installation, but will never follow through with the thought. It seems like a great deal of annoyance to tear up your floors to gain access underneath, and the excessive price is also a deterrent.
It is rare now for a house to be built with only radiant heat and most times it will just be included in the master bathroom and maybe the kitchen. But this is only in more expensive top of the line homes where maybe that is an option. It is unfortunate that most people will never get to experience radiant heat in their home because of the cost and hassle of having it installed.
Radiant heat under your floors would be such a welcome change after a winter spent with dry heat circulating in your home. Radiant heat is different in that it does not act to swirl hot air around the house from room to room. You will never experience the drying out of your skin that comes from forced air heat, as radiant heat heats as it gradually rises. You cannot detect when radiant heat turns on as it runs completely silent.
The cost of installation makes radiant heat a rarity in homes. Radiant heat doesn’t fall in line with homebuilders’ desire to keep construction costs low. So, as homeowners, most of us will never have the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of radiant heat.
When you explore the pluses and minuses of radient floor heat you have to first know what your budget is. Putting radiant heat throughout your house, whether it by hydronic or electric heat, can be expensive. Because of this, most people only install it in a couple of key rooms such as the master bathroom. Radiant heat is better on your skin in the winter when it is so dry and this is probably the biggest advantage of having this kind of heat. You can’t imagine the difference between the dry forced air and radiant heat until you try them both.
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Oct 16
The primary step to keeping comfortable this winter is to prepare your heat system for lots of constant usage. With the chilly days of the end of the year right around the corner there is no better time to get your heating system checked out and operating in tip-top shape before you need every day. No matter what sort of heating system your house has, you’ll want to make sure it is ready to last through the winter season. If your heat does stop working in the middle of the winter months then here are 3 steps you can take before hiring the repairman:
Check that your temperature gauge is set properly: Today’s temperature gauges are complex devices. There are many different kinds of digital and mechanical thermostats available and some of them are not easy to use. It might be a good idea for you to pick a chilly night to test your heating system to make sure you know how to turn it on and off before you need it.
Make sure you have not overloaded a breaker: A simple blown house breaker could stop your heat from coming on. You might need to call an electrician if your heat seems to blow a fuse more than once, because that could be a sign of a bigger and potentially more serious electrical problem in your home. No matter what kind of heating system you have some type of electrical connection is probably required.
Consult the instructions: If you don’t, then you should probably consider writing down some steps to follow in case you need to tell someone else how to turn your heat on or off in an emergency. Store the written steps in a convenient desk drawer that close to your temperature gauge. If you have an instruction manual for your heating system then you should check that at the first sign of trouble.
The tips above are just some of the many heat trouble shooting steps you can take. Heating systems are complex machines that are built to keep you comfortable and run without problems for many years, but they do need maintenance every now and then. Heat systems use many different kinds of fuel from oil, to natural gas to electricity. If you are trapped without warmth in your house then play it safe and get to a building that does have heat or at try to purchase an auxiliary room heater as a temporary way to stay warm. If you are not comfortable with any of these heating troubleshooting steps, don’t hesitate to call in a heating professional.
Most homeowners can’t afford a new furnace without some sort of home loan modifcation. It’s always less expensive to try to repair a furnace before replacing it.
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