Warming Up to Radiant Flooring

Promising warm toes and lower heat bills, in-floor heating systems are becoming more popular in American bathrooms.

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Some of yesterday's bathroom flooring trends — think avocado green shag carpet — should probably never make a comeback, while others are ripe for revival. One of the latter is radiant floor heating, first used by the ancient Romans who forced warmed water into pipes running beneath the floors of their homes and bathhouses. The Romans knew what homeowners are discovering today: Under-floor heating offers a luxurious sense of warmth to those often chilly bathroom floors.

According to Mark Shaw, a radiant floor system purchaser for Lowe's stores nationwide, sales of radiant, in-floor heating systems are growing at a rate of 30 to 50 percent each year.

"More and more people are learning about this great option for heating bathrooms and other rooms as well," says Shaw. "Once they experience the feeling of stepping out of a shower onto a warm floor, they're sold."

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