Heated Tiles In Bathroom - Do They Work?

[Bathsheba]

My grandparents put it in when they built... we lived with them for a few months and I have to say i never felt the cold (where they lived regularly hit sub zero temps).

Tiles don't bother me too much, especially if you buy jumbo sized bath mats. What are the other options for bathrooms? Cork? Moisture rules out carpets... is slate any better?

[jackrose]

We have it - and I loooove it. *hmm is there a drool emoticon?*

We have ours on a timer so that I can set the temperature to different levels throughout the day and have it off when we are asleep or not at home.

It is heavenly. (did I already mention that?? )

[~Raven~]

My parents have their house fully slab heated and it's awesome

It is costly but they don't have any gas where they are so by the time I'd add up my gas and power bill and compare it to their power bill it's not that much more.

[CeCe]

Our house was built in 1977 with hydronic in-floor heating. The heated water gets pushed around the pipes which are embedded in the concrete slab. Given the choice I would not have any other type of heating than in-floor. It is devine.

We have tiles near the entry way and in the bathrooms. It's just gorgeous. So much so that when we do further renovations I would like to increase the tiled area in the house.

I'm with Jackrose, if there was a drool emoticon I'd be using it. Visiting my parents house in winter I never feel quite as warm or comfortable.

[Janie]

I grew up in the Dandenong ranges (so freezing ), and our house had wall to wall slab heating. Devine is the right word for it! We never knew it was cold until we stepped out the door. But yes, it is very costly to run, and from memory could take awhile to heat the house up if it had been off for awhile (we had an open fire too, so that always got us over that hurdle). But I don't know, maybe the systems have been improved so that is no longer an issue.

[foreva*your*mummy]

I too know someone who had it, they loved it also used to just put their towles on the floor when finished to dry them!! ( obviously untidy though haha). My mum and dad used carpet in their bathroom it was special for bathrooms, it took a while to get used to but really warm

[LaDeeDa]

We had carpet in the bathrooms growing up - I am pretty sure it was designed for wet areas but you just learned to dry yourself in the bath/shower and not splash (for fear of mum's wrath ...LOL)