How To Make Tile Floors Warmer

Our thermaldry floor tiles rest in raised plastic pegs on the floors of your basement creating a thermal break on your floor that makes its surface 8 10 degrees warmer than the cold concrete below.

How to make tile floors warmer.

Your flooring can make a significant difference to your comfort throughout the year. Cork tiles generally about 1 2 inch thick can also have some insulating ability and add comfort to the floor. It creates a pleasant heat with no cold spots distributes that heat evenly and gently warms a room without any wasted energy. Add radiant below surface heating and you ll find ceramic and porcelain tiles become toasty warm.

There is a room in my house that never seems to get warm. Shown on the right are our unfinished subfloor tiles. I also began to use a small ceramic space heater to direct heat under the desk. Luckily there are ways to combat this chilly predicament.

Start with the simplest solution which will help provide a comfortable temperature for the whole house not just the floor. I had to put an area rug under my computer desk to keep my feet and legs from getting too cold. It s a common problem in a finished basement because concrete floors continually release moisture making a basement feel damp and they act as a conductor for the cold from the ground under the foundation. Thermaldry flooring is also available in two tiled and two carpeted designs.

No matter how nicely the rest of the basement is finished if the floors are cold and the room feels damp nobody is going to want to spend much time down there. Their water resistant properties make them great for kitchens and bathrooms but they can be expensive especially when paired with a below surface heating system. The most effective way to warm up any flooring including tiles is to install underfloor heating. It s 40 more efficient than radiators too so it s better for the environment and will save you on your heating.

Determining the cause of cold floors however is usually fairly simple and can be addressed without massive expenditure. Keep cold air out warm air in. You can expect the stone floor of your screen porch or the basement linoleum laid on cement to be cold and carpet is the logical warmer. The big surprise for me was the fact that the tile floors on a slab emit cold cold temperatures in the winter.