When my husband and I moved into our new home in Birmingham, Alabama, I wanted to get radiant flooring.
We were ripping up all the old rugs and replacing them with tile.
Tile is better with heated flooring. You have to rip the floors up to get the system. We were doing it all anyway and the time was right! My husband talked me out of it. His point was that Alabama is a warm state. We hardly use our home heating system. It still worked too. It made no sense to buy another heater and hardly use it. Well a whole year went by and then I really regretted that choice. I should have done heated flooring. Our home heater quit since it was so old. So I had to buy a new system anway. The tile feels cold on my feet for four months out of the year. The nights get into the 30s, of course the tile feels cold. I had to buy a bunch of throw rugs to keep the tile warm. I covered up all my hard work. Since the floors feel so cold I need to keep my thermostat at a higher temperature. My energy bills in the winter are quite large. The winters in Birmingham, Alabama are cold. The season is long too. 6 months out of the year we use a heating system. We aren’t in a warm state at all! I should have invented my heating equipment when I had the chance. I really missed not getting radiant heating.