Warm Your Floor makes radiant floor heating simple by offering complete floor heating kits. Instead of buying parts separately, a kit gives you all the core components in one package. This saves time, reduces mistakes, and ensures everything works together...
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How to Install Nuheat Floor Mats
Installing Nuheat standard or custom mats is a pretty straightforward process. These mats are designed to fit your space accurately and install quickly. Warm Your Floor is a verified seller of Nuheat flooring systems. It’s crucial that you purchase your...
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How to Install SunTouch TapeMats
Installing SunTouch TapeMats is a pretty straightforward process with the right tools and instructions. Always follow your SunTouch installation guide and local electrical codes to ensure the system performs safely. Warm Your Floor is a certified supplier of SunTouch heating...
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How to Install WarmWire Radiant Floor Heating – Video
Installing WarmWire® radiant floor heating includes a few important steps: understanding what’s included in your kit, preparing the space, installing the heating cable, placing your floor covering, and setting up your thermostat. Before beginning, take time to read the full...
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Heat & Protect Tile Floors with DITRA-HEAT Membrane
Stone and ceramic tile are popular choices for flooring throughout the home. And with the right tools, they’re easy to install, and long lasting, and they add value and beauty to a home for years to come. But even these...
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Radiant Heat Layout Calculator: How to Determine Heated Area
Understanding Radiant Floor Heat Traditional electric radiant floor heating mats and cables, like those made by SunTouch, Warmup, Nuheat, and Schluter-Systems, are resistance heating systems. This means the wire in each size of the heating element is individually designed to...
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How to Conduct DITRA-HEAT Heating Cable Tests
Electrical testing is one of the most important steps when installing DITRA-HEAT cables. Each test confirms that the heating cable and its insulation are intact, properly connected, and safe to operate. Performing these tests prevents your system from failing, ensures...
Read MoreNuheat Radiant Floor Heating Systems: A Complete Guide
Nuheat is one of the most recognized names in floor heating. The brand is known for its pre-built heating mats, cable systems, and easy-to-use thermostats. If you’re considering purchasing a Nuheat floor heating system, it’s important to purchase from an...
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Can I Install the DITRA-HEAT Membrane Under Wood or Laminate flooring?
Yes! Schluter has updated their installation instructions to allow for alternate floor coverings to be installed over Ditra-Heat and Ditra-Heat DUO membrane. See page 18-19 of the 2020 Ditra-Heat Installation Handbook. Other floor covering installations require thinset under the membrane...
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How to Keep Your Driveway and Walkway Free of Snow and Ice
With heavy snowstorms common among the East Coast and Midwest, snow and ice removal counts among home and business owners' most common pet peeves. From chemical deicers to shoveling to heated mats and cables, there are many ways to manage...
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Answers to Your Top Floor Heating Thermostat Questions
Whether you're a homeowner looking to enhance comfort and efficiency in your living space or a contractor seeking to provide top-notch solutions to your clients, navigating the world of electric radiant floor heating systems can be both exciting and overwhelming....
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Benefits of a New Floor Heating Thermostat
Benefits of a New Floor Heating Thermostat Bulky, overcomplicated dial and push-button thermostats are a thing of the past. Now is a great time to upgrade! An electric floor heating system will last many years, but older systems can benefit...
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SunTouch SunTouch TapeMat Installation Manual SunStat Connect Thermostat Manual SunStat Command Thermostat Manual SunStat Pro II Thermostat Manual SunStat Core Thermostat Manual SunStat Relay III Thermostat Manual WarmWire WarmWire Installation Manual UnderFloor UnderFloor Retro-fit Mat Installation Manual SlabHeat SlabHeat Installation...
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The Importance of Waterproofing
Waterproofing is the foundation of a successful, long-lasting shower. Contrary to popular belief, traditional shower systems are NOT completely waterproof. Most shower systems use a “pan-liner” to waterproof the base of the shower that is encased in a bed of...
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All About Schluter KERDI-SHOWER Systems
Traditional tiled shower installations are time consuming, expensive, and leave your shower vulnerable to mold growth and efflorescence. Schluter offers a wide array of fully integrated components for building a complete, high-quality shower assembly that incorporates superior waterproofing technology, which...
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All About Schluter Drains & Grates
Schluter-Systems offers standard and linear floor drains, KERDI-DRAIN and KERDI-LINE that are compatible with traditional mortar beds and KERDI-SHOWER systems. Like the rest of the KERDI family of products, these drains provide waterproofing technology superior to traditional “pan-liner” drainage systems....
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Heated Flooring Basics
What is electric floor heating? Why should I install electric radiant floor heat? Where can I put electric radiant heat? How is it installed? Is it difficult to install? What will I need? What is electric floor heating? Electric floor...
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Warm Your Floating Floor
What is a 'Floating' Floor? Sometimes referred to as a “click-together floor,” a floating floor is installed by linking (or clicking) individual planks, boards, or even tiles together like a puzzle that “floats” atop the subfloor, without the need for...
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All About QuietWarmth
What is QuietWarmth? Manufactured by MP Global Products, QuietWarmth radiant floor heating systems include film mats that combine over 30 years of unique radiant floor heating science with patented floor heating technology. Ultra-efficient QuietWarmth radiant floor heating film products safely and inexpensively...
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ProMelt Mat Installation Options
Ready to put that shovel away forever? ProMelt Mats by SunTouch Watts Radiant can install under a variety of surfaces and along with smart outdoor sensors can automatically melt snow all season. Mats easily roll out for a speedy installation....
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Schluter Systems DITRA-HEAT Warranty Update
Schluter Systems now offers the best extended warranty of all leading radiant floor heat manufacturers! By performing a few simple tests and registering online or by mail, you can add 10 or 15 years of assembly repair, labor, & materials coverage to...
Read MoreRepairing Broken SunTouch Heating Elements
Need to repair Nuheat? Click here to go to the Nuheat repair section. My SunTouch Product is Not Working - What do I do now? Floor heating system not working? No worries – it can be fixed and we can...
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Prevent Costly Winter Weather Damage to Your Home with Easy-to-Install Electric Heating Cables
In winter, icicles on roofs are more than just a danger to the people below them – they are often a symptom of ice damming. Ice dams on roofs can lead to costly repairs for homeowners, but even in long,...
Read MoreHeat Up a Cold Basement: Read This Before You Finish Yours
No matter what climate you live in, your basement is likely to be the coldest part of your home. Before you finish your basement, there are a number of options to warm it up and create a comfortable space. We’ll...
Read MoreThe History of Radiant Floor Heating
You may be aware that a radiant floor heating system is a modern, efficient and healthy method to heat your home, but do you know its history? Radiant heated floors may seem like a relatively recent innovation to most....
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Are hydronic radiant floor heating systems more efficient than electric radiant floor heat?
This is a popular question among home and business owners, and the answer is a little complicated. There are several ways to discuss the efficiency of radiant floor heating systems. Efficiency can be discussed in terms of cost, power usage,...
Read MorePromelt Cables Features & Benefits
ProMelt electric radiant snow melting cables are the most versatile and lowest cost option for snow melting installation any size, any shape - quickly providing electrically heated walkways and driveways. Cables are ideal for steps, curved or angled areas. Cables...
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Questions to Ask Before Quoting Electric Floor Heating: A Contractor’s Guide
Quoting an electric floor heating project requires more than calculating the room’s square footage. Floor plans, fixed features, electrical capacity, finished flooring, controls, and installation responsibilities can all affect system design and cost. Gathering these details before preparing an estimate...
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A Complete Guide to Heated Driveways, Sidewalks, & Patios
For those of us who live in colder climates or at higher altitudes, we know too much about snow. Each winter we find ourselves knee deep in white powder, and sometimes, back straining, heavy, wet snow. Would you believe us...
Read MoreA Guide to Retrofit Radiant Floor Heating
You’ve experienced radiant floor heating and decided, “I need this in my bathroom!” The problem is, you don’t want to rip up your existing floor for a heated tile floor, or you’re not ready to remodel the bathroom. With retrofit...
Read MoreForgot to Install Heated Floor Sensor? Here’s What to Do
Will underfloor heating work without a floor sensor? Technically, yes. But a floor sensor is highly recommended to be compliant with electrical codes and achieve a safe, energy-efficient system. Sometimes even the most organized installer forgets an important detail. If...
Read MoreHow to Troubleshoot and Repair Electric Floor Heating Systems
As a first-class floor heating distributor, we only carry the most durable, well-designed electric floor heating systems available. Occasionally, heating elements are accidentally cut with tile saws or blades for clearing grout, crushed with heavy buckets of cement, or drilled...
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