Indoor Floor Warming: Simple Installation with Quality Results

radiant heat flooring

With electric floor heating mats, electric floor heating cables, and radiant heat flooring surfaces involved in your in floor heating system, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the installation process of radiant electric heat.  Your radiant heating supplier should make it easy to have your floor warming purchase installed safely and professionally in your home or business.

If you’re knowledgeable about electric wiring, you could install floor heating cables yourself. Your radiant heating system should provide complete step-by-step instructions on how to install electric floor heating mats or cables and full floor heating systems in your home.  Be aware, however, that we do recommend you use a qualified professional to install your radiant floor heating system. By NEC code, you must have a licensed electrician do all your final electrical connections. There are experienced installers in virtually every part of the country, including many in our nationwide network of distributors. If you are trying to find an electric heating cable installer by yourself, make sure you ask about their experience and training in radiant heating.

Did you know that not all heating cables are created equal?  We strongly believe that wider, “fatter” heating cables are capable of radiating with more intensity than traditional floor warming systems.  That’s why we recommend only using high quality electric floor heating cables known as Nexans. This means that Nexans cables are able to heat many surfaces that weaker cables cannot, such as stone and marble.  Nexans cable systems can even be used with slab or frame construction (dry or wet bed) and hardwood flooring.

Wider rather than higher electric floor heating cables allow radiant heat flooring to keep height increases at a minimum, usually about a 3/8" - 1/2" raise.  Since the electric floor heating mats and floor heating systems in general are all totally concealed, you can maximize the use of heated floors and outdoor areas, such as heated driveways and heated sidewalks, without affecting the look and feel of where they are installed. Radiant heat costs are fairly low due to the ease of in floor radiant heat installation. Plus, with residential radiant heat systems, you do not need to buy additional grates or wall coverings.  Additionally, the radiant floor heat is directly on the floor where you need it, so energy consumption is kept at a minimum.

For outdoor applications, driveway snow melting cables can melt winter ice and slush from surfaces such as concrete, brick, pavers or asphalt for applications such as driveway heating and sidewalk heating.  Whether you’re in need of snow melting cables or heavier ice melting cables, we feel that the thicker cable can handle the job better. A good thick cable can also be used to protect soil from frost.

Top quality radiant heat floor systems are easy to install and require little maintenance. Whether your home requires concrete floor warming, ceramic floor warming, or wood floor warming, Your radiant heating expert should be able to create a radiant heat system for you. We think that a top quality radiant heat system should come with the industries best warranty.  Only Nexans of Norway comes with an industry leading 30-year warranty. Consider contacting the experts at Orbit Radiant Heating in planning your new home construction or on your existing property, and make life easier on yourself and your family.