Spoilt for choice with heated bathroom floors
A tiled bathroom floor is a joy to look at and a treat to clean but on a cold winters night it can be like treading on an iceberg. There are currently two basic approaches to heated bathroom floors; cheap to fit electric mats or economical to run embedded hot water pipes.
The mats are low voltage units a little like large versions of heated car windows. A sandwich of insulation, heating mat, a flexible adhesive and tiles finishes the heated bathroom floor. Embedded hot water pipe is an extension of your central heating system. It works just like a great big radiator under the bathroom floor. The preparation for this is more drastic as you need to bury the flexible pipe-work in 4 to 5 inches of concrete screed.
If you’re considering a tiled floor it’s worth finding a few extra bucks to install under-floor heating in your bathroom.