Buy Floor Heat Articles

Flooring Tips from SunTouch Electric Radiant Floor Heating

Customers of SunTouch Electric Radiant Floor Heating are often thinking about flooring at the same time as they are thinking about floor heating mats. This is because most customers of SunTouch Electric Radiant Floor Heating take the opportunity when they buy heating mats to also update or replace their existing flooring. For example, many customers who have old and moldy carpeting, buy floor heating systems and switch to hard surface floors. The radiant floor heat allows them to enjoy warm hard surface floors that are also more durable and easier to clean.

If, like many customers, you are thinking about flooring as well as electric floor heating systems, we have some excellent floor care to keep your new warm floors looking fabulous for years to come:

1) If you have installed new hard surface floors over your radiant floor heating systems, make sure that you vacuum or sweep your floors regularly. Abrasive dirt on your surface floors can scratch the finish.

2) Avoid wearing sports footwear and high heels over your hard surface floors, especially if the shoes are not in ideal shape. These shoes can leave marks on hard surface floors high heels can even leave permanent marks on concrete! The excellent news is that a radiant floor heating system will make your floors so comfortable and warm, that you can easily go barefoot around your home.

3) Avoid leaving spills on the floor. With radiant floor heat systems, spills and liquid on the floor are much more quick to dry out. Nevertheless, if you notice a spill, do wipe it up. Not only will the liquid potentially affect your floors’ finish, but someone can have a slip and fall accident on a wet surface.

4) Place small mats outside and inside all entrances. This allows people to wipe off the dirt from their shoes on these mats rather than on the floor. Encourage people to leave their shoes out the door, as well. Wearing outdoor shoes in the house brings pesticides, dirt, and other undesirable and possibly dangerous toxins into your home. With radiant floor heat systems, your home’s floors will be so cozy that no shoes will be required, anyway.

5) For both of the durability of your floors and your own health, keep the humidity levels in your home between 40 and 50%. With radiant floor heating systems, maintaining a healthy humidity is very simple, since radiant floor heat dries up any excess moisture on the floor without drying up the air.

6) If you have hardwood and buy heating mats, raise and lower the temperature no more than 2.8°C (5°F) at a time. This will help prevent the hardwood from drying out excessively.