Sensible Heating & Cooling offers the best options in making your home comfortable while reducing your utility bills. For winter time, there are no better options out there than radiant floor heating and outdoor snow melt systems, which work on the same principle. A series of pipes, originating from a boiler or a geothermal system, circulates hot water beneath the flooring or your outdoor surfaces to provide a stable, gentle warmth.
We all know that heat rises, but have you ever thought through that forced-air heat, the most common method in American homes, relies on hot air actually cooling down out of the registers so it can sink low enough to reach the zones that your body actually dwells in? To accomplish this transfer, forced air must start out at temperatures upwards of 120 degrees Fahrenheit, and by the time it reaches you then hopefully it’s still warm enough to make your thermostat go up a couple of ticks. Even so, the cold surfaces of objects in your home, besides your poor cold toes, compete for portions of this hot air, because, well, the natural laws of energy.
Radiant floor heating allows one to discard all of this tricky business. Hot water traveling underneath you puts the heat source exactly where it belongs, setting the climate in your home up for success. From toes to head, the much gentler warm air from the surface contact rises and builds layers of heat upon itself, filling your home up with the coziness of a cup of coffee and the newspaper on a Sunday morning. No slippers needed.
And the best part is that we can apply the same principle outdoors with our snow melt systems too. Imagine again that cup of coffee, and you looking out the window at the heavy snowfall of last night gorgeously blanketing your neighborhood. But there is no nagging hassle to this snow or ice, because a similar series of pipes running beneath all of the areas you’d generally have to bundle up and go shovel, are just beautifully exposed cement, clear for walking the dog or getting the car out of your driveway on. Running on a thermostat, or by the flip of a switch, your new snow melt system is activated, running enough hot water underground to easily take care of snow and ice build up. And the blanket of snow just becomes beautiful scenery for a second cup of coffee and a round of Sudoku.
Industry-wide, the agreement is that radiant floor heating warms residences in a human-friendly way like no other. Perhaps you are thinking that it sounds like too much to install, and that forced air heating and a shovel works good enough. But beyond the warmth and comfort of you and your loved ones, and the time saved in your driveway, consider the reduction in noise, the reduction in dry sinuses and always worrying about the cleanliness of your ducts and air filters. Consider that radiant floor heating has been shown to work up to 30% more efficiently than the traditional forced air system. We have many solutions for our customers, and are happy to install all varieties of systems at all price points, yet with all the advantages proposed here, it never hurts to find out more.
We offer free consultations and estimates on installing a radiant heat system and/or a snow melt system in your home, so it never hurts to explore and find out. Please reach out and contact the owner, by calling 720-876-7166 or emailing the owner at [email protected].
