Re: heated floors

When I visited DH's relatives in Japan, some 30 years ago, I  
experienced my first heated toilet seat - delightful!

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Dec 10, 2006, at 1:42 PM, pdickson wrote:

> I had heated floors and ceiling when we lived in New Mexico.  It  
> was wonderful.  I could turn on the heat in the bathroom but leave  
> the bedroom cool.  You never had heat blowing out the door when you  
> opened the door to the outside since there was no blower.  I wish I  
> still had this kind of heat.
> I saw on a fix it show where they can lay down the coils then lay  
> down some kind of cement stuff on top then tile or put wood floors  
> on top of it all. It didn't look impossible to do yourself.... they  
> kept saying to do a test of the current many times in the project  
> to be sure that something had not messed up the wiring while you  
> were working with it.
> Tricia
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 12:47 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] heated floors
>
>
>> Jim, I suppose you can sit this one out ;+)
>> I'm thinking about redoing my family room (FR) next year.  The FR  
>> is on a slab situated between the garage and Florida Room.  The  
>> rest of the house is on a crawl, a few steps up from the FR.  FR  
>> has a good quality berber carpet that looks like crap because it  
>> is a very high traffic area.  I also have my 5 tiered light stand  
>> in the FR and have spilled water and brown natural liquid  
>> fertilizer on the carpet as well as hot choc when I stepped on the  
>> cat.  I'm thinking tile.
>>
>> However, being on a slab, tile would really make that room cold.   
>> A friend mentioned heated tile and I thought  it sounded like the  
>> tile might have electric wiring in them.  But today there was an  
>> article in the paper about warm water tubing under tile for  
>> heating.  I've never seen heated tile advertised and I'm   
>> wondering how expensive a project this would be.
>>
>> Do any of you have any heated-tile rooms?  Any thoughts to share?
>>
>> Kitty
>> neIN, Zone 5
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