Radiant Heat
Radiant heating is growing in popularity because it’s a clean, quiet, efficient, dependable, and cost-effective way to heat your home in the winter or just make your floors more comfortable.
With radiant heating, heat comes from wires installed under your floor tile. Wires are placed under the floor material delivering heat to the surrounding space, quietly and invisibly, in a constant, uniform way.
Believe it or not, radiant heating is one of the oldest forms of heating known to humankind. While the Romans are often given credit for creating radiant heat, in actuality, both archeology and research into ancient texts have proven that radiant heating came to be thousands of years before the Romans in Asia.
Thousands of years later, in-floor heating has evolved into one of the fastest-growing, most cost-effective and efficient ways to heat your house.
PM Engineer Magazine reports that radiant heating is growing in popularity each year in both new and retrofits across the U.S. And according to Scientific American, radiant systems transmit heat on average some 15% more efficiently than conventional radiators.
Benefits of Radiant Heating
Radiant heating systems offer a lot of benefits to homeowners, including the following:
1. Energy-Efficient
Radiant heating is more efficient than baseboard and forced-air heating because it eliminates duct losses. And, while traditional heaters are usually cranked to 149-167 Fahrenheit, floor radiant heating runs at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. For that reason, it consumes less energy.
2. Quiet Heating
Radiant heating systems are entirely quiet. Unlike forced-air systems, you won’t hear vents turning on and off all day, and no more clinging radiators either — just a silent, warm home.
3. Allergy-Friendly
People who suffer from allergies will appreciate radiant heat. No ductwork means that dust and other allergens won’t spread through air vents in your house, allowing you to breathe cleaner and easier.
4. Consistent Temperature
Since warm air rises, radiant floor heating is the perfect way to deliver a consistent temperature throughout a home. The heat that the floors emit will travel upwards, thus warming the whole room to an even temperature.
5. Less Arid Conditions
Every time you turn up the thermostat in a forced-air heating system, your furnace sucks humidity out of your house. This can leave you with dry air, dry skin, and painful sinuses. Radiant heat will help humidity levels in your home.
6. Scalable
You don’t have to jump all in when it comes to adding radiant heat to your house. Instead, if you don’t want to install radiant heat throughout the house, you can choose to heat one or two rooms.
7. Aesthetically Pleasing
Radiant heating allows you to remove unsightly radiators and return vents on the floors and ceilings. With heated floors or walls, you can remove wall-mounted radiators and open the room up.
8. No Need for Ductwork
There is no need for ductwork for radiant heating to work properly. No ductwork means one less major thing to worry about during annual maintenance.
9. Floor Covering Options
Radiant floor heating works with almost every single type of floor finishing: laminate, tile, wood, concrete, and stone.
10. No More Cold Feet
Maybe the best perk of all, say goodbye to cold feet. Radiant heating means warm floors and warm feet around-the-clock, which is especially nice on those cold winter days when you’re stepping out of bed or out of the shower.
Households and commercial buildings account for nearly 40% of total U.S. energy use. As long as heating, cooling and lighting remain the single largest energy end-uses in a home, there will be an increased interest in finding and implementing energy-efficient building practices.
Radiant heating systems offer energy-efficient and cost-effective way to heat your home while saving hundreds of dollars on home heating bills.
Recent Radiant Heat Projects
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Irving did a wonderful job on our master bath shower and tub! Throughout the whole process everyone was so wonderful to work with and they kept the bathroom clean so we didn't feel like we were living in the middle of a construction zone. These guys are great to work with and definitely trustworthy, they make sure to get the job done right!
Drue and Heritage Tile were so easy to work with. From the moment Drue returned our call and came to our house for an estimate we knew we didn’t need to talk to another company. They were very professional and timely and their tile work and expertise speaks for itself. Our 50 year kitchen looks amazing because of them!
Drue and his team were amazing. We had them do our kitchen backsplash with Zellige tile. Very professional and respectful. They listened to all of our neurotic requests and the project looks great. 100% recommend! We will be using them again in the future.
In our years of home ownership we have NEVER hired such a talented, kind, respectful, clean, on time, patient and skilled group! Irving, Gabriel and Drue transformed the ugliest bathroom into something magical! They were so easy to have around, hardest workers and just truly nice guys! I kinda miss their company! Our project was difficult, but they did it. I will tack on before and after pictures when the room is done. We also fully intend on having them here for our next project….the kitchen!
The crew from Heritage was polite, timely, and did a fantastic job on our bathroom floor. We asked them for a herringbone pattern and they took their time to ensure the pattern was beautiful. We HIGHLY recommend them and will use them again in the future. Thanks again guys!
Amazing work! Very professional, great communication and timely work. Highly recommend! They were also phenomenal with my four kids who had lots of questions and were always trying to chat them up. 😆
Irving did a fantastic job on our tile backsplash! The process was very easy and quick responses from both Irving and Drue. We love it!
Drue is seriously the best! He answered my call immediately and got me a quote back same day. He was up front about the timeframe which I appreciated. My backsplash was demolished and installed within 3 days. Eric was amazing to work with and was able to complete my job effortlessly. I can’t recommend Drue and his team enough!!!
Fabulous work on a very difficult job--nobody else would touch it. The guys are skilled, hard working, friendly, and dedicated.
The guys at Heritage Tile were great. We had a small bathroom project but they treated us like their #1 customer. Service was great, communication was was awesome and the finished product is exactly what we were looking for. Highly recommend Drue and Irvin for your project!
Wow! Heritage tile just finished up my new house and I have never been more pleased with any contractor in my life! Irving and Drue were respectful, honest and communicative through the entire process. Can’t thank these young guys enough for their hard work and great attitudes!
I was having a new bar in a highly visible area of the house. The project was underway, and I needed to have everything completed by Thanksgiving which was only a few weeks away. I reached out to Dru and his team at Heritage and they swiftly responded to my request. They were able to complete the backsplash installation within a really tight timeframe while also working with a really challenging tile selection. Their work on the tile backsplash really put the perfect finishing touches on this new addition to our home. Heritage did a fantastic job throughout, with an impeccable attention to detail and professionalism. They were incredibly responsive and paid strong attention to job site cleanup and limiting any impacts to other areas of the house. Will be looking for them to take on our next tiling job.
Drue and his team are not just skilled craftsmen; they are true artisans who take pride in their work. It's evident that they have a genuine passion for what they do, and this enthusiasm translates into the exceptional quality of their projects. Their attention to detail and commitment to excellence in both Traditional tile and Porcelain Slab Installation, set them apart from many other "Tile" companies in Kansas City! If you're looking for a team that combines skill, passion, and a dedication to exceeding expectations, Heritage Tile and Stone is the way to go. I highly recommend Drue and his team for any tile or porcelain slab installation project. They truly find pleasure in their work, and it shows in the results. A solid 5-star recommendation!
Drue, Irving, and their team did a fabulous job on my master bathroom remodel. They took over from a different contractor after all the tile had been ordered. They were responsive, professional, courteous, adaptable, and focused on education and innovation in their field (and proud of it!). They listened patiently to what I wanted and offered very helpful suggestions without being pushy. Thanks to them I have a much more functional master bathroom with the most cleverly hidden niches. The heated floor is amazing and undoubtedly a worthwhile extra expense. The marble and limestone mosaic shower floor makes me smile daily, and Drue happily worked with it without trying to discourage me from using natural stone like others before him. He was also very helpful with product recommendations to clean and seal the stone.
I was very impressed with Heritage Tile. They did a fabulous job on our kitchen backsplash. They were professional, timely and always cleaned up at the end of the day. I would not hesitate to recommend them to others or use them again for another project.
Drue, Irving and their team did an awesome job ripping up old tile that was improperly installed and cracking. They properly installed a new sub floor along with our handmade tile. They were the only installers that seemed to care about the tile and correct installation process when providing a bid. I would highly recommend them, they have a great attention to detail and truly care about their craft.
