Re: heated floors

I think that would be great too. Our newest car has heated seats.... I
never thought that was necessary but now that I am used to it I would
rather do without heat than do without the heated seats.

  Funny how we can get used to things we like so easy.
  Tricia

Cathy Carpenter <cathy.c@insightbb.com> wrote:
  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" 
> To: 
> 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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