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Affordable efficient comfort for cold feet: a radiant heat primer.

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As flooring sales professionals, no doubt you've come in close contact with the radiant heat phenomenon. The consumer-driven trend has been the fastest growing segment of the heating industry for more than a decade, and one that ties closely to the business of flooring. In fact, says Larry Drake, executive director of the Radiant Panel Association (RPA): "Floor covering is a key component of the radiant heat delivery system." To understand it and to know how to integrate it with various floor coverings will only improve your bottom line.

This article will provide you with an at a-glance guide to radiant heat.

Along with all the good news about radiant heat--the romance of bare feet on warm floors and the energy efficiency of the systems--there's been no shortage of debate about what floor coverings work, or don't work, with radiant. We've all heard the horror stories of inadequate heat through carpet, or dehydrated wide plank flooring with quarter-inch gaps.

The truth is that if the radiant heat professional knows what type of flooring will be chosen and installed, almost any type of floor covering can be applied over radiant heat. At the most basic level, the purpose of any heating system is to keep us warm. The unexpectedly luxurious feel of radiant heat keeps ns warm, but not by heating us....

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