A sun room is a fabulous addition to your home. If you’ve been considering a sun room, you probably already know that this type of addition to your home can increase the value of your property. A bright sunroom is a wonderful place to sit and enjoy the outdoors while being perfectly safe and comfortable indoors. No need to worry about mosquitoes, pests, or excessive noise when you’re inside! A sunroom is also a great idea if you love to garden, as your plants will get all the sunlight and warmth that they need. If you want to relax with the family, enjoy a wonderful evening dining experience, or just enjoy the wonderful and beautiful outdoors without having to outside, a sunroom is a great option.
One challenge with some sunrooms, however, is that they can be hard to heat. In fact, if you have a home with a sunroom, chances are that you are under-using your sunroom precisely for this reason. The problem is that sunrooms are generally made with multiple windows, and the large surface areas of the glass can get cold, which in turn can make your room feel chilly. As well, any cracks or air leaks in your windows will contribute to a cool sunroom. Sunrooms are meant to be sunny and warm, so heating problems can really dampen your enthusiasm for your sunroom.
A wonderful solution for your chilly sunroom is electric floor heating. Electric floor heating systems work on the principle of radiant heat – the same principle that warms your sunroom on a warm summer day. Therefore, not only do electric floor warming systems actually use the same principles that your sunroom uses on a warm day – heating your body by radiating warmth to the objects in the room – but electric radiant floor heat is actually an ideal way to heat hard to heat rooms such as a sunroom.
Floor heat works by warming the surfaces inside a room. Rather than just blowing hot air around, floor heating systems work by warming entire surfaces. This means that the air in your sunroom can stay cool and pleasant while you stay warmer. As well, this type of heating is actually more energy-efficient, because your heating system is not trying to heat the air (a futile thing in a sunroom with lots of cool window surfaces). With in floor heating, your window glass surfaces can stay cool while you stay warmer, and isn’t that the ideal situation?
Some people add portable heaters, radiators, or baseboard heaters to their sunrooms, but this can also be a problem. They even can not have suntouch thermostats which is a very useful thing. Heaters work by overheating one small area (such as a radiator) so that it gives off heat. This can make part of your sunroom very hot – and the rest chilly. This will not create the type of cozy environment you want. If you want plants in your sunroom, the uneven heat can even harm your indoor garden. With floor heat, the entire floor surface becomes a heating element, radiating warmth to you, your guests, your family, and your furnishings. While the air in a sunroom may remain cooler with a floor heat system, you and your feet will feel warmer with heated floors in your sunroom. In fact, many customers find that radiant floor heat systems work in their homes where other traditional heating systems have failed.