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Enjoy a Welcoming Home with SunTouch WarmWire

When we walk into our homes, we hope to enjoy a welcoming and comforting presence. Is this the sort of presence your home has? For many homeowners, their homes are anything but welcoming. Dust, grime, odors, and uncomfortable blasts of cool air make walking into the front door less than ideal. SunTouch WarmWire can help. SunTouch WarmWire can introduce radiant floor heat to your home, which can help make your home more welcoming from the minute you step into your home to the minute you leave again.

The secret is that floor heating is simply not like any other heating system. Most heating systems rely on overheating an element -- such as a radiator, furnace, or heater -- in order to heat the air in the room. This can be terribly ineffective, as the laws of physics dictate that hot air must rise upwards. The air in such a room is warmest near the ceiling. It is only as the air cools that it drops down to where everyone is living. This can result in drafts as there are several layers of cool air and hot air in the room.

Unfortunately, most heating systems also produce odors. Forced air systems harbor mold, bacteria, dust, and other allergens in air vents. If your furnace is not working properly, exhaust and pollutants from your furnace may also be leaking into your home, causing odor. Dust on baseboard heaters and radiators burns, giving off an extremely unpleasant odor.

Only radiant heating is different. Radiant heat does not rely on overheating any elements of the system. Instead, radiant floor heat works by gently heating the entire surface of your floor. In turn, the floor radiates heat to the furnishings, people, walls, and other objects in a room. These objects then radiate their heat to the people and pets in the room. Everyone in the room stays comfortably warm, and the lack of overheating means that no heat is wasted and no cool drafts are produced. Electric floor heating systems are also wonderful because they do not produce odors. There is nothing gathering dust and then burning that dust, and there are no air vents with radiant floor heating systems to produce ideal conditions for holding grime.

Customers who have radiant floor heat systems enjoy very warm, comfortable homes that are welcoming and inviting from the minute someone enters the home. Special timers allow you to set the exact temperature you want on your SunTouch floor heating systems, and some units even come with special timers that allow you to enjoy a warm home even after you've been out the whole day. With suntouch floor systems, you can walk into a dust free, clean, nice smelling, and warm home every day.