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Just Say “No” to Drafts with SunTouch WarmWire

We’ve all experienced drafts in cold weather. For most of us, they are little more than annoyances. We can be sitting in a nice, warm room only to have someone open a door to let in a blast of cold air. It is unpleasant. Sometimes, the door does not have to be opened. In poorly-insulated buildings, drafts seem to emerge from no-where. Drafts can be more than an annoyance, though. In cold weather, drafts can cause some trauma to the body. Someone who is in a warm room who is suddenly exposed to a burst of cold air has to adjust to the new temperature. While healthy people can do this quite easily, the task is much more difficult for children and for those with compromised immune systems. Those with sinus infections need to avoid drafts, which can aggravate the sinuses. Drafts are just bad news for everyone but the very healthy, and even those in the best of health often find that drafts are distracting and unpleasant.

If you have drafts in your home, you may need to get a professional to consider ways to make your home more insulated. However, you may also want to take a second look at your heating system when you notice drafts. Some heating systems can contribute to drafts. Furnaces which are part of forced-air systems, for example, necessitate chimneys and air vents. Cold air can creep down chimneys and via air vents into your home. You also need to consider that your traditional heating system may not be doing much when drafts do appear.

SunTouch WarmWire is a great solution for anyone who is good and tired of troublesome drafts. The very way that SunTouch WarmWire radiant floor heat works reduces drafts in your home. While forced-air heating systems pressurize your home by sucking air out of rooms, heating the air, and blowing it back into the rooms, radiant floor heat does not create this constant flow of air. With forced-air systems, pressurized room actually push warm air outside through cracks and any openings in your home. This can create larger cracks and can allow cold air to seep back in. Radiant floor heat does not create any pressure so that heat and air stays inside, which can reduce drafts.

When an outside door in opened in a home with electric floor heating systems, there is less worry about warm air escaping and causing drafts. With traditional systems, it is the air that is heated, so when cold air enters a room it takes a long time to recover from the draft. With radiant floor heating systems, though, it is the objects in a room which are heated and which give off warmth. When a draft of cold air enters a home via a door, the home with radiant floor heat quickly regains a comfortable room temperature as soon as the door is closed again.