While most people avoid cold feet by covering bathroom floors with enormous mats radiant heating is a great way to keep the floor warm while increasing your home s energy efficiency.
Bathroom floor heater installation.
Here is a quick guide on how to install heated bathroom flooring in your home without breaking your budget.
Bathroom plan 95 flooring.
Tile marble or stone sub flooring.
This in floor heating system consists of one thin continuous cable heating.
Use it as supplemental heat for comfort or as space heat to warm the entire bathroom installation is as easy as laying tile.
Securing the heating mats to the floor staple the fiberglass mesh part of the radiant floor heating mat to the subfloor.
While you can hire a pro to do a radiant floor retrofit it s not a difficult job if you re comfortable setting floor.
For a detailed floor heating installation plan and the estimated cost for your next project go to 101 bathroom floor plans where you can select the floor plan that best represents the shape of your own bathroom.
Radiant heating can be a smart way to add a sense of luxury to a petite bathroom where there s a small area of open floor space as the cost won t be nearly as high as in a large bathroom.
See turning floor heating mats for more turn examples.
A bathroom size warm floor retrofit will cost 400 to 700 including the cost of the new tile.
Walking on a cold bathroom floor is a harsh way to start the morning.
Warm up cold bathroom floors with electric in floor heating mats installed under the tile.