{"id":830,"date":"2016-11-21T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatingcoolingchicagoland.com\/blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2016-11-18T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T20:24:00","slug":"why-radiant-heating-is-great-for-winter-warmth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/heating-service\/why-radiant-heating-is-great-for-winter-warmth\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Radiant Heating Is Great for Winter Warmth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term <em>radiant heat<\/em> refers to any kind of heat that comes off a heated surface. You feel radiant heat coming from the metal of the sides of buildings during a hot day, or coming up from asphalt. But when it comes to home heating, <em>radiant heating<\/em> means a particular type of comfort system: hot water circulated from a boiler raises the temperature of pipes running through a subfloor, which in turn heats up the floorboards. These heated surfaces then send heat waves into the room. (You can also have radiant heating through room radiators or baseboard heaters.)<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Why This Is a Great Way to Warm Up the Winters<\/h3>\n<p>Switching to radiant heating from standard forced-air systems such as furnaces is a major change, and is usually best done as part of new construction. But there are many reasons to consider it, because winters are better with radiant heating.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Improved air quality \u2013 <\/strong>During the winter, your home will be closed up tight to keep as much heat as possible inside and the cold drafts out. But this creates a rise in the amount of contaminants trapped indoors\u2014and unfortunately forced-air systems blow them all around and allow them to build-up in the ducts. Radiant heating is a <em>cleaner<\/em> heat to make your home more pleasant for allergy and asthma sufferers during the winter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Toasty feet! \u2013 <\/strong>This is harder to quantify, but radiant floor heating just feels so nice. You get a toasty warm sensation right under your feet, rather than having to wait for heated air to spread down from the ceiling. Wouldn\u2019t you love to wake up to a warm floor each winter morning rather than a chilly one?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fewer repair hassles \u2013<\/strong> Who wants to scramble to get repair technicians out to their house to fix a broken furnace or heat pump during a freezing cold day or night? There\u2019s no complete guarantee that a radiant system won\u2019t break down on you, but they are more durable and less malfunction prone than others systems. And they last longer as well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Save energy \u2013<\/strong> You\u2019ll have more money available for winter fun when your heating bills go down thanks to a radiant heating system. Radiant heaters warm up rooms faster and water is a more effective transference medium than air, making these systems all-around money savers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Call Malek Heating &amp; Cooling to <a href=\"\/heating\/radiant-systems\">find out more about radiant heating installation<\/a> in <\/strong><strong>Wilmette<\/strong><strong>, IL.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switching to radiant heating from standard forced-air systems such as furnaces is a major change, and is usually best done as part of new construction. But there are many reasons to consider it, because winters are better with radiant heating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[76],"tags":[133,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goservicemax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}