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Originally Posted by tooge
IT'd be worth it. Not only does it warm the tile for your little footsies, but the entire room is warmed up by it.
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The floor was linoleum before we redid the kitchen, and then we put in tile. The linoleum wasn't bad, but the tile is always cold, which is good in the summer but not so good in the winter.
Right now, we have some sort of Swedish superheater in our basement laundry room. It's electric and heats that room up, which helps, but electric heaters spike our utility bill up. Did your bill go up notably when you installed the tile?
It's funny, because after our Great Flood of 2011 we put in a new high-efficiency heater, but we don't have ducts to the third floor, the laundry room, or the apartment. (Hey, it's a 108 year-old house. I'm just glad it has ducts.) So we have electric heaters in those rooms. We get a quarterly report from our utility company about our home efficiency, and it's laughable. Our natural gas usage is very efficient compared to our neighbors with similar-sized homes, and our electricity usage looks like we're powering a Vegas casino.