Floor Heat System

How healthy is your home?

With more awareness of indoor air pollution and sick building syndrome, it’s a question that more people are asking. The reality is that most of us spend 90% or more of our time indoors, much of that time in our homes. Yet, our homes contain a number of potential dangers, including allergens, pests, molds, asbestos, pesticides, and more. If you want to live more healthfully and create a more healthy environment in your home, one place to look is your heating system. Your heating system has an important impact on your indoor air quality and the health of your home, and there are many ways that nuheat mats can help you create a better environment inside your home:

1) Nuheat radiant floor heating mats can help you get rid of the carpeting and rugs in your home. Since electric floor heating flooring turns any floor surface into a comfortable and warm surface, you won’t need rugs and carpets to keep your feet warm. In fact, with Nuheat electric floor warming, you will be able to walk on your bare hard-surface floors all year long. Getting rid of your rugs and carpets, however, is an important step in the right direction. Carpets and rugs can contain adhesives, toxic VOCs, and other substances. They can also harbor dust mites, molds, and other allergens. Plus, carpets can trap pesticides and other harmful allergens that you track in from outdoors. With an in floor heating system, you can enjoy comfortable warm floors without the problems of carpets.

2) A Nuheat in floor heating system can help you reduce the amount of allergens in your home. Radiant Nuheat mats can be great if you want to reduce allergens in your home. Since Nuheat mats are installed entirely under the floor, they do not make allergens airborne the way that forced air systems can. As underfloor systems, Nuheat mats also do not trap allergens such as dust and molds. In fact, Nuheat mats can create a drier and warmer environment, which makes it harder for mold, dust mites, bacteria, and other allergens to thrive. This can actually mean fewer allergens in your home.

3) Nuheat radiant floor heating mats makes it easier to keep your feet healthy. With Nuheat and other such-like electric floor heating products, you can walk around barefoot more often, which some researchers have suggested is beneficial to the feet. As well, Nuheat electric floor warming can help keep your feet warm by directly heating your feet. This can help with some discomfort and aches and pains while promoting foot health.

If you want to get your health in a better shape it’s time to think of the environment in your home. You can have a totally controlled climate in your house if you install warm floors and electric floor heating systems. The benefits to your health will be marvelous. If there is someone with asthma or other breathing problems in the family, warm floors will partially solve the problem. The fact is that old style radiators are great reservoirs for breeding dust and dust mites. With warm floors you will have much less dust, less need to clean up and you will breathe the air that’s much fresher and cleaner. Also, with warm floors you will be able to avail of thermal comfort and the best distribution of heat possible. The best way to heat up a human body is from bottom up. Radiators keep part of the room hot and the rest cool. Warm floors keep your feet warm and head cool which will keep you healthy and comfortable. Chances are you will need less heat because our bodies are warm when our feet are warm. With warm floors and snow melt driveways you will need to humidify your rooms with much less intensity as electric heating doesn’t fry out the air. As you can see there many benefits for your health when you choose warm floors.