With this said, radiant floor heating can be on the expensive side
The technology of temperature control is improving everyday. Some of the latest innovations include: smart HVACs, programmable thermostats, gas fireplace and solar powered heaters and air-conditioners. Each of these new temperature control innovations offers users advances not only in indoor cooling and heating, but are designed to operate in a variety of new ways, allowing users more freedom and choice. Perhaps the most luxurious innovation in heating and cooling is radiant floor heating. Typically reserved for newly built homes and mansions of the rich and famous, radiant floor heating is the epitome of comfort and opullence. They provide a new method of indoor heating that does not involve the circulation of air and all of the accoutrements that typically accompany conventional methods of heating–using a furnace that pumps out warm air through ducts and vents. Instead, radiant floor heating provides warmth through conduction. This means that the material itself is warmed and warmth is provided to users by “touching” the warmed material. All of this is to say that radiant floor heating provides home heating “from the floor” itself and users experience the comfort of radiant floor heating when they walk on the floor when it is heated. While this method of temperature control is not meant to substitute for a home heater during the coldest months of the year, it does provide added comfort on especially frigid days. With this said, radiant floor heating can be on the expensive side. The high cost is due to the labor and materials associated with installation. Radiant floor heating does also require a considerable amount of energy. For more on radiant floor heating, research HVAC technology.