Tile Floors and Cold Weather

We would use the fireplace and leave it on a setting which would make the living room area definitely better, but not perfect, but on the next coach, I want a heated tile floor....I've been out in Boston in November (and it gets cold up there) and was fine..although since then, DW did purchase me some fur slippers to wear when in coach in winter time. That solves the symptom but not the problem..

Wife and I traded rigs in February while in Az. Bought a used 05 Monaco w/ Aqua Hot diesel furnace and water heater. It kept the tile floors warm and the water bay heated. The burner sounded loud when running until I stood next to propane furnace in next door fifth wheel, not that much louder. Total change from the two zone propane furnaces and propane/electric water heater in old rig. Like most people, I wasn't taken in by all the sales pitch when looking at this rig. This time it was all the sales man said it would be. Blind luck and a nice rig.

Mr.Mark wrote:
Mr. Al, we didn't have heated floors in our 'tiled' coach and didn't really miss something we didn't have. The little electric heater seemed to work well. Now that the new coach has heated wood floors, it's amazing.

We were in 8 degree weather back in December heading West through NM and AZ at higher elevation. It's amazing how the heated floors maintained interior temp. At night, I don't like to have anything on if possible, especially, our diesel fired furnace. I like things as quiet as possible.

Your wife will love heated floors.

MM.

She does love heated floors. We have them in our S&B. That is the reason the question came up. :)

When I kept seeing all the big$ coaches advertising tile floors and hydronic heat, I assumed it was radiant floor heating.

az99 wrote:
We were just really surprised that anyone spending the big $ that the units cost with tile floors would not demand floor heat under tile. Anyone in a cool to cold climate would certainly have floor heat under tile in an equally priced new sticks and bricks.
We just assumed it was there. It is certainly on DW's must have list.
If I am going to spend all the money to haul that heavy, pretty tile up and down the road I am not going to cover it with carpets so my feet are not cold. :)

Demand what you may - but we found very few manufacturers that did heat the floors. Those that did argued why other other system was trouble, and those that didn't argued that they all are trouble in a moving coach, be it water tubes or electric grids. I know, it's all sales hype. With a heated basement, it's really not that bad. If it was installed, I would use it, but it wasn't a "must have" when we shopped because it really limited the manufacturers.

We opted not to do it in our sticks and bricks, because it would have required two dedicated 20A circuits and I didn't want to surrender that. Haven't given it a second thought, and I live in Colorado. I guess you don't miss what you didn't have to begin with as someone stated.

Mr. Al, we didn't have heated floors in our 'tiled' coach and didn't really miss something we didn't have. The little electric heater seemed to work well. Now that the new coach has heated wood floors, it's amazing.

We were in 8 degree weather back in December heading West through NM and AZ at higher elevation. It's amazing how the heated floors maintained interior temp. At night, I don't like to have anything on if possible, especially, our diesel fired furnace. I like things as quiet as possible.

Your wife will love heated floors.

MM.

az99 wrote:
We were just really surprised that anyone spending the big $ that the units cost with tile floors would not demand floor heat under tile. Anyone in a cool to cold climate would certainly have floor heat under tile in an equally priced new sticks and bricks.
We just assumed it was there. It is certainly on DW's must have list.
If I am going to spend all the money to haul that heavy, pretty tile up and down the road I am not going to cover it with carpets so my feet are not cold. :)

Rugs are a whole lot cheaper than removing all that tile, installing heat tape and doing a re-installation. In an earlier post you asked why the floors are not heated. There is only one answer....$$$$$$.

We were just really surprised that anyone spending the big $ that the units cost with tile floors would not demand floor heat under tile. Anyone in a cool to cold climate would certainly have floor heat under tile in an equally priced new sticks and bricks.
We just assumed it was there. It is certainly on DW's must have list.
If I am going to spend all the money to haul that heavy, pretty tile up and down the road I am not going to cover it with carpets so my feet are not cold. :)

Just tried ours in the cold, and that tile is a bit chilly in the morning. Tiffen had electric floor heating when we looked, and Entegra had hot water heater under the tile.

booty51 wrote:
Put some socks on

From Houston, might be feasible. When we are in the high country and the high temps for the day are 75 and 40 at night in the thin, thin air, them floors is C O L D !!!!!

Runners and throw rugs are the best!

WW

If you want floor heat, look for a Country Coach. The put electric floor heat in some of their coaches starting in 2000, and by 2005, most all models from the Allure on up had floor heat.