Radiant comes in two forms: hydronic, where a boiler heats water that circulates through tubing in or under the floor, and electric mats, which suit single rooms like a bathroom. We install and service both, and we work on the boiler side that feeds most whole-home systems. Most of the whole-home hydronic work we see sits west of town, around Mariana Butte and out toward Carter Lake, where newer homes on slabs often spec radiant from the start.
Call (970) 555-0134 for a radiant estimate or service.
What radiant floor service covers
- Whole-home hydronic systems: boiler, manifolds, circulators, zone controls, and tubing layouts for new construction and major remodels, with zones set room by room.
- Bathroom and single-room floors: electric mat systems under tile, controlled by their own thermostat with a floor sensor. The single most popular radiant job there is.
- Basement slabs: tubing in or under a basement floor turns the coldest level of a Colorado home into the most comfortable one.
- Service and troubleshooting: cold zones that point to air in a loop, a failed circulator, or a mixing valve problem; leaks located and repaired; controls that never seem to satisfy the thermostat because the water temperature strategy is wrong.
- Outdoor reset controls: controls that adjust water temperature to the weather, so the system sips fuel in October instead of running at January settings. Properly set, this is where radiant's efficiency reputation comes from.
- Retrofit assessment with honest limits: adding radiant under existing finished floors is sometimes possible and often impractical. We will tell you which house you own.
Signs radiant heat fits your project
- A bathroom remodel is already opening the floor — the cheapest moment to add heat
- Tile, stone, or polished concrete floors that stay cold all winter
- A basement being finished for living space
- A new build where comfort is a priority and the boiler is already in the plan
- Someone in the household hates forced-air dust and noise, often for allergy reasons
- Your existing radiant system has a cold zone, a noisy manifold, or a heating bill that suggests it runs hotter than it should
Radiant Floor Heating in Loveland homes
Loveland's radiant work clusters in two places. The first is the custom and semi-custom building west of town, around Mariana Butte and out toward Carter Lake, where new homes on slabs and big view lots often spec radiant from the start, frequently paired with a boiler that also handles domestic hot water. Those systems need altitude-aware boiler setup and water temperatures tuned for our shoulder seasons, which are long — October and April are radiant weather in the Thompson Valley, mild days where a forced-air furnace cycles clumsily and a floor at low temperature feels perfect.
The second cluster is remodels: bathrooms in the older homes near downtown and Lake Loveland, where a gut renovation opens the floor and an electric mat goes in for a few hundred dollars of materials and changes every winter morning in that house.
Snowmelt is the cousin request we hear at the end of these conversations — tubing under a driveway or walk. Loveland's freeze-thaw winters make it appealing on shaded north-facing lots where ice lingers for weeks. It is a real option during new concrete work, and we can rough it into a boiler plan.
What radiant floor heating costs
Most Loveland homeowners pay between $800 and $2,000 for an electric bathroom floor with thermostat, depending on size and tile work. Hydronic radiant for new construction typically runs $12 to $20 per square foot installed, with whole-home systems in larger houses running well into five figures, while service calls for existing systems — a circulator, a zone valve, air purging — commonly land between $250 and $900. The honest comparison is against the room's alternatives: radiant is rarely the cheapest heat to install and is usually the most comfortable heat to live with, and in new construction the premium over forced air is smaller than most people expect.
The boiler at the heart of a hydronic system is covered under Boiler Services. Pairing floor heat with the right control strategy connects to Smart Thermostats, and if forced air is staying for the upper floors, Furnace Installation covers that half of a hybrid house.
Call (970) 555-0134 for radiant floor heating in Loveland, CO.