Could radiant floor heating systems be related to some cancers?
Some people say that nothing beats the soothing warmth of a tiled bathroom floor heated by an electric radiant heating system. The concept is simple — when you’re building a new bathroom or renovating an existing one, you lay an electric heating mat on the subfloor and tile over it. The plastic mat, made of heat-resistant polyethylene, contains looped resistance wire that carries an electrical charge, transferring heat to anything it touches. In this case, the heat warms the floor and, over the course of an hour, the rest of the room. It’s like an electric blanket without the fabric. But you’ve probably been told that it’s bad for you to sleep under an electric blanket while it’s turned on. If that can have ill health effects, then you’d think that the radiant floor system would, too. Concerns about electric b
