Does your home have radiant heat and how do you like it?

It’s definitely warmer as long as you are close to the source. But it just doesn’t keep an entire home at the same temp as well as central heat. unless you crank it up to sauna hot, there will be cold spots in the house.

Cold spots? I thought the heated wires or tubing went into all the areas of the slab. Maybe we’re talking about different things?

What’s weird about radiant heat and similar heating, is that it’s always on at the same temperature. But the humidity in a house fluctuates, not only with the weather, but also with the activity level and what the activity is.

So you might be nice and cozy at 68 degrees F in the evening, but feel chilled in the morning. And you can adjust a forced air system pretty quickly, but a radiant system takes hours.

This is not sounding at all promising. I’m surprised. I thought it was state of the art.

Ah, then I must be confused. I was thinking of those baseboard room heaters.

Radiant heat below flooring is supposed to be awesome. I think Judi has it, but she hasn’t been on fluther lately. If I lived in a cold climate I would definitely consider it. Heat rises, so heat from flooring will help heat the room well. Plus, having warm feet is always a plus in the winter months.

Radiant heat through pipes, like what you find in NYC apartments, can make a room unevenly heated if the room is large, but usually if they are sending up a lot of heat you don’t notice it, in fact sometimes you need to crack a window the room gets so toasty. It depends on the building.