Electric radiant heat
 

Anyone installed electric radiant heat into an existing space before? Worth it? Did you just install over the existing flooring or did you tear out the existing flooring first?

Got a 600sf open space that uses baseboard that I'm renovating and it's got tiles right now that aren't the most attractive and am considering putting in radiant heat for it. I was going to put in carpet for half the space (the living room side) and would put new tiles on top in the kitchen/bathroom area if I put in radiant heat.

its fairly easy, but you need a power run that can support it, maybe even on its own breaker. Schluter and other companies have their own system and underlay you use, the schluter system you lay down their orange underlay with all these dimples and then weave the heating core through it and then put a skim coat over top

im sure theres plenty of videos etc online, the hardest part is probably the electrical part if you have an electrician friend etc

my old boss did it himself once pretty easily.

the key is ensuring continuity throughout before tiling over.
i know it seems obvious but if you have 2 diff trades just doing their thing :derp:

i've seen a project where they had to remove the tiles b/c it didn't work.

also don't cheap out on dead zones. i recall when i was house hunting a few homes threw in heat in the kitchen and bathroom, and the dead zones can instantly be felt, warm and toasty tile and then bam, cold tile. just left a bad taste in my mouth....well, my feet actually.

I had it done. My old th was sitting on top of open parkade. Winter time floors would get really cold, electric baseboards wouldn't cut it. I got nuheat installed when I replaced my floors. Basically wire mesh (carpet) > thinset, under laminate. Worked well. Had phone app to control heat etc.
This was 2017-2018.

I did have issue 2 years later where floor temp sensor stopped working. Had to rip bunch of boards to replace it.