Re: heated floors

No but my sister has the talking gps... pretty neat in Houston.... where
you can't find anything fast. They say that some day we will just
program in where we want to go and the computer will take us there....
that is spooky... how are they going to avoid all those trucks?

  Tricia

Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
  Does your new car parallel park itself too, Tricia? Heated seats sound 
scrumptious but self-parking cars seem spooky.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patricia Dickson" 

To: 
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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 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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