Nuheat customers often have questions about their Nuheat mats and about radiant floor heating mats in general. Here are the questions we hear most often – and the answers to those questions:

1) How expensive is electric flooring from www.floorheatdirect.com to use?

A Nuheat electric floor warming system can actually help save you money because an in floor heating system relies on radiant heat and therefore is naturally more energy efficient than many forced air and traditional heat systems. This is because heat is transferred directly to you and to your feet. Studies have shown that this type of heating is more comfortable and allows you to turn down your thermostat a few degrees, saving you money. As well, radiant Nuheat mats are designed to be energy efficient; many rooms will take only cents a day to heat. Nuheat floor heat mats also come with energy star rated programmable thermostats that save you even more money. Best of all, Nuheat mats allow you to control each room's temperature separately. This can save you a lot of money, since it ensures that you are not using energy to warm rooms which are naturally warmer or which are rarely used.

2) Is it easy to install Nuheat floor heat mats?

Many do-it-yourselfers can install Nuheat mats over a weekend. As well, Nuheat provides simple-to-understand instructions and help. In many cases, you do not even need to remove your existing flooring to install a Nuheat or SunTouch electric floor heating system. Some customers choose to let a contractor install the mats for them.

3) What type of flooring can I install over electric floor heating systems?

Nuheat mats as well as quality Warmyourfloor heated floors work with virtually all flooring surfaces. Stone and tile floors are especially popular options for floor heat, since these surfaces are naturally cold and Nuheat mats take care of that quite handily. However, you can also install Nuheat floor heat mats under carpet, cork, linoleum, vinyl, hardwood, laminates, bamboo.

4) Can I cut Nuheat mats or splice them together?

No – this is extremely unsafe to do. However, Nuheat creates mats in dozens of sizes and lengths and widths, so there is no need to start splicing and cutting because Nuheat mats make it easy to find and buy a combination of mats that will work well with your room size and shape. Even oddly shaped rooms can be heated with Nuheat floor heat mats because Nuheat has so many mat options.