I have radiant heat in my addition, forced hot air in the rest of my home. I live in central NJ and you are invited to see hot it works if you would like to come to my home. Yes, it does not respond quickly to temperature changes, thatÂs true, but the pluses make it worth it. I have it in a guest bedroom that is in a "slab on grade", that means a cement slab floor. On the coldest days, that room feels great! There is no sound of hot air blowing around. The air doesnÂt dry out your skin and nose. If the door opens and cold air rushes in, it remains warm. It just feels really nice. I have it in my bathroom. When I redid my bathroom and added stone floors, the room looked good but, was unpleasant to be in. When I added the radiant in the addition, I ran it in my bathroom too. I ran a lot of extra in the shower. It feels beautiful! I ran it under wood floors in my kitchen addition and it doesnÂt work very well there. The company said itÂs about 20% less efficient under wood floors, thatÂs not been my experience. I dealt with radiant tec in Vermont and they were very easy to work with. I dealt with David and I can really recommend him. I had a handyman install it after I figured out what I need done. The company helped a lot with the design. If anyone is thinking of doing it themselves, hereÂs what I recommend. I went through a lot of trouble trying to make a continuous run with the tubing from the water heater, to the whole room, and back to the water heater. That was very hard. Where I couldnÂt do it, my plumber made " joints". If I had known that I could have him do that from the beginning, it would have been so much easier. I thought the joints would be a problem. They are not. You do have to get a plumber to do parts of it, unless you know how to do that type of thing. The part where it was installed in the slab, I did myself. That was EASY. (IÂm a small, middle-aged woman.) As far as the thermostat goes, you can install it anywhere you like. It will read the temperature of where ever you put it. I got creative when installing it under my shower. There is a step up to my shower so there was a space under my shower, (this was not new construction). When I put it in the floor under the shower, the pocket of air under the shower, insulated it from the tubing and the shower was staying cold. HereÂs what I did. I opened the wall next to it. And made three "u" shaped runs of copper pipe and inserted them to the space below the shower. My stone shower feels like heaven on a cold day. It would be too expensive to do whole rooms in copper but it didnÂt run too much to do the shower. ItÂs well worth it!

bus driver, "Gas water heating is much cheaper than electricity." Generally yes, however the advent of the residential electric hot water HEAT PUMP has leveled the playing field. Last year I replaced an older A/C unit with a Heat Pump. I also replaced my oil furnace with a new oil furnace. I also replaced my electric hot water heater with a GE Heat Pump hot water heater. For the first ten months of 2009 I paid $2700 for electricity. In the first ten months of this year, since the new equipments, I have paid $2000. Additionally, I kept my home three degrees cooler this year during the cooling season and three degrees warmer during the heating season just beginning. Also, for the first time in my 22 years in this house the entire house was properly cooled and comfortable during the cooling season. Because of my ignorance, I did not use the heat pump "properly" during the past heating season - I used oil to heat almost exclusively - just as I had in 2009. At the end of the year I will post 12 months worth of data. However, replacing the old electric resistance heat hot water heater with the heat pump with resistance backup is saving nearly $50 in electric usage every month of the year. I believe this would compare quite favorably with gas - except it would cost me MANY thousands of dollars to bring gas in ...

the benefit to a program like the EaseUs backup is that you do an image back up which is the best type of back up, it backs up not just your files but the entire operating system, your settings, your drivers, absolutely everything exactly as it is when you do the back up, it is essentially a snapshot of exactly how the computer sits at that moment. Then from it you can go back and select individual files or if you have a failure you can install your entire system on a new hard drive and be up and running in minutes exactly as you were. There are several free imaging software available. If you decide to go with carbonite which does store it away from your home, go to the kim komando site and look for it there you will get a discount buying it through her. here are some links that list the best of the free image software Best free backup software: 11 programs we recommend Free Imaging, Backup and Recovery Software for Windows The best free disk imaging program: a comparative analysis (updated) some ratings tests were performed As to online storage you can get up to 50 GB free storage a ADrive, I have used them for years. It is one more good place to store some of your files off site. Personal Basic (FREE 50GB) you want the Persona Basic Free 50 GB option Personally,my opinion only, the image method is the way to go for backup with the least time, effort, problems at recovery.

Mine, which I installed, has the sensor in a small conduit buried in the floor. The other end of the conduit is in the wall box with the thermostat. Replacing the sensor is just matter of pulling out the old one and pushing in the new. It has not yet been necessary to do that. Mine is the Elektra brand and the mats were about 1/3 the cost of the well-known brands. Not quite as easy to install but have functioned perfectly.