Can it be added to a house that is already built?

In a renovation, yes, in the rooms being opened up. In an untouched finished basement it usually means raising the floor, which is why we will ask about your ceiling height before anything else.

What heats the water?

A boiler, usually, and sometimes a combination unit that does the floor and the household hot water. Which one suits you is a sizing question we answer in the house, not on the phone.

Is it expensive to run?

It runs at a much lower water temperature than radiators do, which is in its favour. What it costs in your house depends on the house, and we are not going to guess at that in writing.

One zone has gone cold. Is that a big job?

Often it is a valve, a pump, or air trapped in a loop, none of which are big jobs. Worth having it looked at before you assume the worst.

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In-floor heating in Airdrie

Heat that comes up through the floor instead of blowing out of a vent. It is quiet, it is even, and in a garage or a basement it is the difference between a room you use and a room you avoid. New installs, additions, and repairs to systems already in the ground.

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What we do

Garage and shop floors. The one people in Alberta ask about most, and for good reason.
Basements, bathrooms and additions. Including as part of a renovation, while things are open.
New pours. Loops laid before the concrete goes down, which is the moment this job is cheap.
Repairs and diagnosis. Manifolds, zone valves, circulator pumps, and loops that have gone cold while the rest stayed warm.
The boiler side of it. Something has to heat the water going into the floor, and that half matters as much as the pipe does.

Call us when

One zone or one room has gone cold and the others are fine

You are pouring a garage or a basement slab

The manifold is leaking or a valve has stuck

The system is noisy, or the pump runs constantly

You are renovating a bathroom and want to know what adding it would take

Do it before the concrete, not after

The cheap moment to put heat in a floor is before the slab is poured. After it, the options are a floor build up that costs you ceiling height, or nothing at all. If a pour is anywhere in your plans, even as a maybe, it is worth a conversation first. This is the one job where calling early genuinely saves money rather than just sounding like it does.

The other thing worth knowing is that in-floor heat is slow on purpose. It warms the mass of the floor and the floor warms the room, so it does not respond in minutes the way forced air does. That is exactly why it feels so even, and it is also why it prefers to be left at a setting rather than turned up and down.

Questions we get asked

Can it be added to a house that is already built?: In a renovation, yes, in the rooms being opened up. In an untouched finished basement it usually means raising the floor, which is why we will ask about your ceiling height before anything else.
What heats the water?: A boiler, usually, and sometimes a combination unit that does the floor and the household hot water. Which one suits you is a sizing question we answer in the house, not on the phone.
Is it expensive to run?: It runs at a much lower water temperature than radiators do, which is in its favour. What it costs in your house depends on the house, and we are not going to guess at that in writing.
One zone has gone cold. Is that a big job?: Often it is a valve, a pump, or air trapped in a loop, none of which are big jobs. Worth having it looked at before you assume the worst.

In-floor heating in Airdrie

What we do

Call us when

Do it before the concrete, not after

Questions we get asked

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