We're remodeling our bathroom, including a new porcelain tile floor. I'm thinking of installing a heating element under the new tile, but I'm not sure it's worth the cost and headache. Thoughts? Here's the details:
- The bathroom isn't huge - I only need about 45sqft of heated floor.
- I already have a dedicated circuit for a total of 3 GFI outlets in 3 bathrooms. 1 of those outlets (the main floor half-bath) will never be used for an appliance. I suppose it's possible we could have 2 or 3 hair dryers/curling irons running in the other two bathrooms at the same time. I was hoping to just use that circuit for the heated floor. Running a dedicated circuit (from basement to second floor, opposite ends of house) for just the heated floor would be costly. But the floor alone could draw 400 to 500 watts when running. I don't think tying in to whatever circuit feeds the bathroom lights is advisable, right?
- The bathroom is on the second floor above a heated area, and the floor never really gets freezing! Thus, while I guess it would be neat to have a toasty-warm floor, we'd mainly be doing this for resale value. Not sure paying $500-750 (or more, if we need a circuit) is worth it.
- If I only want to have the floor heated in the morning when we wake up, I'm assuming we would need to buy a programmable thermostat ($120+)?
Let me know what you think. Thanks.
Heated Floor for Bathroom?
- The bathroom isn't huge - I only need about 45sqft of heated floor.
- I already have a dedicated circuit for a total of 3 GFI outlets in 3 bathrooms. 1 of those outlets (the main floor half-bath) will never be used for an appliance. I suppose it's possible we could have 2 or 3 hair dryers/curling irons running in the other two bathrooms at the same time. I was hoping to just use that circuit for the heated floor. Running a dedicated circuit (from basement to second floor, opposite ends of house) for just the heated floor would be costly. But the floor alone could draw 400 to 500 watts when running. I don't think tying in to whatever circuit feeds the bathroom lights is advisable, right?
- The bathroom is on the second floor above a heated area, and the floor never really gets freezing! Thus, while I guess it would be neat to have a toasty-warm floor, we'd mainly be doing this for resale value. Not sure paying $500-750 (or more, if we need a circuit) is worth it.
- If I only want to have the floor heated in the morning when we wake up, I'm assuming we would need to buy a programmable thermostat ($120+)?
Let me know what you think. Thanks.
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