Comfort:
At Hickory Ridge Radiant our number one priority is providing you with comfort. The number one reason to choose radiant heat is comfort. Radiant heat virtually eliminates drafts, stops the noise of heating systems, cuts down on dust and airborne bacteria, and frees up your wall and floor space to use in any way you want. By eliminating the floor registers or baseboard heaters that cause drafts, radiant heat improves your comfort. Favorite areas of radiant heat include bathroom floors and tub enclosures. This keeps you warm from the time you step in until you step out of your daily shower or bath. Kitchen floor heating allows you to work in stocking or barefoot comfort, reducing fatigue from cold floors that draw the heat from you.

Radiant heat is the only type of system we know of that so closely matches the system of heating to the ways our bodies feel and give off heat. It is simply the most comfortable type of heat.

The key ingredient to any radiant system's successful comfort level and energy savings is control of the delivery of temperature to the heating liquid. There are almost as many ways to control the temperature as there are methods of tube installation. As with the tube installation, there are trade offs in price and performance. A top-of-the-line radiant system should have a control that will change the temperature of the heating liquid based on the temperature of the air outside. There is still energy savings in a fixed temperature radiant system over a forced air or baseboard heating system but the comfort level and energy savings is being sacrificed. Controls can incorporate individual room sensors, floor temperature sensors, priority zones, and room feedback.

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