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    WARM TILE FLOORS

    Nov 18, 2019 4 minutes
    TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEVE MAXWELL

    It’s easy to love warm floors in winter. I know because I’ve installed different kinds of in-floor heating systems in homes large and small. I also live with in-floor heating in my rural Ontario home and workshop. The thing is, making warm floors happen when just a small area needs heat can be a challenge. The technical complication of installing pumps, pipes and valves for a hot water system is impractical for small installations, but this is where electric in-floor heating makes sense. While electricity is a very expensive way to heat in most places, the higher cost of electric heat doesn’t matter much for small areas of floor.

    I installed my first electric in-floor heating system in 2007,

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