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Old Floors? Why You Might Need SunTouch WarmWire
If you have purchased a pre-owned home, you need to take a second look at your floors. If you have not changed the flooring, your floors can hide a number of health hazards. If you have carpeting, your carpets may hide a number of dangerous chemicals. For example, do you know whether the previous home owners wore their outdoor shoes inside? If so, your carpeting may contain many harmful pesticides, even after a thorough shampooing. If the homeowners smoked indoors, there may be harmful carcinogens from cigarettes embedded deep in your carpet. If your home's previous owners used paint, chemicals, varnishes, hazardous materials, or any other toxins in your home, the chemicals can also be found in your carpeting. Even if you have tiling, you may not be safe. The adhesive used to attach tiling to your floors may in fact be hazardous. Plus, some tiles that date back to the 1970s actually contain asbestos. If your home has old tiles, old floors, or old carpeting, you could be exposing yourself and your family to a whole host of problems.
SunTouch WarmWire has a solution: there is a simple way to replace your flooring more healthful alternatives. Installing new floors is a cost-effective way to make over your home and to introduce better air quality into your home. When you are install flooring yourself, you control the types of adhesives used, the quality of materials used, and the safety regulations followed. Plus, when you install new hard surface flooring, you can also install an in floor heating system at the same time. Many homes do not have hard surface flooring -- which are generally healthier and easier to clean, not to mention more durable -- because they fear cold floors and drafts, often a side effect of ineffective heating systems. With floor heating, these concerns are a thing of the past. SunTouch WarmWire uses radiant heating to warm your hard surface floors and can be used with virtually any surface flooring in your home. Radiant heat ensures that not only are your floors warm and cozy, but your entire home becomes warm and comfortable as well.
If you're worried about the quality and safety of old floors in your home, hire a home inspector to determine any potential health hazards in your home. One way to improve indoor air quality quickly is to install radiant heat systems in your home. Radiant floor heat is an often much healthier alternative to most combustible heating systems, and can even ensure that you get additional space in your new home as well. In fact, electric floor heating systems can improve the value of your home while also improving the healthfulness of the family environment inside the home.