Heated floors

[Anonymous]

We have heated floors in two of three bathrooms, both are wood subfloors. It’s a nice luxury to have if you can afford it.

Schluter Materials alone are no less than 1k to start for a small bathroom between the thermostat, cables, uncoupling membrane, and electrical.

We are considering adding it to a basement bathroom which is slab on grade with no insulation.

The only way we see this making sense so we aren’t heating the ground or the surrounding concrete is laying 2x4s flat and building a “new” subfloor that we can then insulate with xps rigid foam, cover with the subfloor and then the schluter uncoupling membrane and heating element. It’s a lot of work and requires some other work like raising the toilet plumbing so at this point it just might not happen.

[Anonymous]

We lived in a house in a Nordic country that had heated floors - was fantastic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it fails do you have to pull up the whole floor? No way I would put that it.

Usually, yes, but surely some exceptions exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your basement gets water I wouldn’t do
It.

+1. Electricity and water do not mix.

[Anonymous]

It would make more sense to install carpet and a gas fireplace for warmth.

[Anonymous]

Ours was done with water, not electric. Much cheaper to run. We have it in the bathrooms, and the entire basement.

[Anonymous]

It’s 2025.

This should be a lot easier, cheaper, and more reliable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s 2025.

This should be a lot easier, cheaper, and more reliable.

For our bathroom remodel we bought an electric “heating pad” that cost us a couple hundred bucks. It’s under the tile, so—while effective—if it fails it’s not going to be replaced.

I wouldn’t heat basement floors for the reasons stated above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your basement gets water I wouldn’t do
It.

If your basement gets water I would fix that before putting a penny into any other improvement in the basement. The water will eventually destroy everything.