Anyone have radiant floor heating under tile?

[Nikki]

We're currently re-doing the bathroom in our bungalow. We bought some nice tile (and oct-and-dot pattern) and are thinking about adding a radiant heating system underneath. It comes with a programmable thermostat, so you can have it turn on before you wake up and your floors will be nice and toasty as you get ready :)

Does anyone have this in their home? How do you like it? Our contractor is currently working up a quote for us, so I'm wondering if it's worth the extra expense.

[shabbychick]

Nikki, my niece lives up at the top of Snoqualmie Pass, and she has the radiant heat in her house. She loves it. She had it put in her driveway, too, to melt the many feet of snow she gets, and it has come in very handy. I'd love to have it in my bathroom because I don't turn on the heat in the morning, either, and those floor tiles can be chilly. I'd sure like to know why the one room in your house where you have to take of all your clothes and get wet is the room that never has heat.

[Nikki]

Oh I know, I'm surprised that neither one of our houses has heat in the bathroom! What the heck were they thinking?! In the winter I have to shower at night, when the house is already warm from running the fireplace, because with an old house its just waaaaay too cold first thing in the morning to be stripping down in there!

[ChapterTwo]

:eek: Oh, my goodness...no heat in the bathroom. I'm freezing now in there, in winter, and I HAVE heat! BRRRRRRRRRRR!

[Carrie]

Bathroom space heaters. :eek:

[mavgal]

We have heat, but I still use a space heater in the bathroom since the furnace doesn't kick in until we get up.

My brother had heated tile floors in his house and they worked great!

[Nikki]

So, we decided to go ahead with the under-tile heating. Installation wasn't even that difficult! The company that we purchased from was called Warmly Yours, and basically you just configure your bathroom dimensions online and they mail you a custom kit to install. The heating element is a thin wire woven into a flat mesh material that you just roll out and staple/glue down. Then, you apply thinset and tile right over.

We were finally able to test it after waiting for the thinset to cure for 2 weeks, as the company suggested. Its really cool and I'm excited to try it with bare feet, once the bathroom is finished (we're in the final stretch now, paint and trim).