What is radiant heat?

Radiant heat enhances comfort because radiant systems warm the floor and the objects in the room. This prevents your body from losing heat to cold objects in the room. This is due to the scientific fact that heat energy is always drawn to cold objects. When we stand on a cold floor or next to a cold wall, we feel cold. This has nothing to do with the air temperature and everything to do with the fact that heat is being lost from our bodies to warm up the cold objects around us. This heat loss is controlled with radiant heating.

What temperature does it take for us to feel comfortable?

Do you know that if your feet are at warm and your head is at cool, you will feel perfectly comfortable?
If you look at forced air heat, we are heating our living space from the ceiling down to the floor because warm air rises. This means to get our feet moderately comfortable, the temperature at the ceiling may wind up very high. It takes a significant amount of energy to create and maintain that comfortable temperature at our feet in a forced air system.

With radiant heat, we switch that temperature profile around. The entire floor becomes the radiator. The temperature at the floor level is at that comfortable range while the temperature at our head is lower but still at a very comfortable temperature. The heat radiates up from the floor, warming all the objects in the room. Everything in the room will gain a nice, warm, comfortable feel to it. Even your bare feet propped up on the table will be comfortable from the warmed coffee table surface. The amount of energy required to create and maintain this comfortable temperature at our feet is significantly less than compared to forced air.

What are the benefits of Step Warmfloor™?

1. Step Warmfloor™ is the most energy efficient heating available because the material itself is self-regulating and only draws the energy it needs to maintain an even temperature on the whole surface. The heating elements cannot overheat.
2. Step Warmfloor™ is a low-voltage system and can be regulated to the ideal chosen temperature level making it more efficient than an on/off system.

3. Step Warmfloor™ can be used as the primary heat source of a building or can be installed in areas where extra heating or floor warming is required.
4. Step Warmfloor™ can be installed in a new construction and is ideal for home remodeling due to the thinness (3/64”) of the material.
5. Step Warmfloor™ is easy to install and can go over/under any floor coverings.
6. Not only will Step Warmfloor™ heat keep you more comfortable than any other heating system, but also it will reduce your energy costs (by 30 to 60%) and increase the value of your home.