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Heated tile

Yahoo Message Number: 55110
We have just purchased a 2008 Intrigue Jubilee #12235 to replace our 2000 Intrigue. A question we have, which I am sure will be the first of many for the forum, concerns the heated tile floors. Does anyone use area rugs or are they totally taboo?

Dave McFadden
2008 Intrigue
#12235

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Yahoo Message Number: 55113
We have heated tile in our coach also and we use throw rugs without a rubber backing so the heat can go through the rug.

Chuck

Intrigue 12298

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Yahoo Message Number: 55115
Anything placed on the heated tile floor has to be able to beath hence the recommendation to not use rubber backed mats. Makes me wonder if an 85 lb Golden Retriever is considered breathable. At 13 she loves to bake out the old bones.
My floor has always been set to 72 degrees. Works great for us. If I set it to 92 degrees it would never shut off. I doubt if the floor can be heated to 92 except in warm outside temperatures when you don't need a heated floor. In my coach it would be a little too much of a good thing.
It is none of my business but why would you need area rugs on a heated tile floor? Just curious as to what function they serve.

Don Seager

2004 Allure 31046

Re: Heated tile and rugs

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Yahoo Message Number: 55121
On our heated tile, we use light cotton throw rugs (or towels or mats) in front of the sink, shower and, oh yes, the toilet when there is a guy around....

s/Terry Apple

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Yahoo Message Number: 55126
Don, when it is cold out I set my floor to 93 degrees. It definitely gets there. It was 29 in Atlanta last night and the floor was cycling between 91 and 93 degrees. Very comfortable on a cold night.

George in Birmingham(currently ay Hunting Island, SC) '04 Allure 31038
George in Birmingham
2003 Magna 6298

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Yahoo Message Number: 55128
Hey George,

When you set you floor to 93 degrees what do you mean by 'very comfortable'. Comfortable to step on or comfortable for the heat it adds to the room. The average human can hold his hand continuously on something around 114 degrees beyond that it gets increasingly uncomfortable. At 93 degrees I would think that the floor would feel very warm to step on specially when the outside temps are in the upper 20s and the humidity is lower.
Are you trying to heat the coach with it or just keep your feet warm for those 3 am nature calls? My floor set to 72 degrees is as warm as I need it for the latter. But then you know where I hail from and 29 degrees says spring is here.

Happy New Year Y'all

Don Seager

2004 Allure 31046

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Yahoo Message Number: 55181
Don, the floor is comfortable to walk on in bare or stocking feet. It warms your feet right up to the ankles. On the other hand, the heat from the floor also provides a lot of heat to the coach on a cold night allowing us to use the electric only to heat the coach down to about 40 degrees. Below that we need the diesel burner.
So, I guess the primary goal is comfort to the feet and the residual benefit is delay in use of the diesel boiler.

George in Birmingham(currently at Hunting Island, SC) '04 Allure 31038
George in Birmingham
2003 Magna 6298

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Yahoo Message Number: 55209
The heated tile floors in my Intrigue 530 are great. When it is cold outside (below freezing) I set my floors for 85. The floors feel warm to walk on and keep the interior pretty warm. I set the diesel aquahot heat at 70 but it doesn't run very much at all except to keep the plumbing bay heated.
My two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels love to cuddle up on the warm floor tiles during dinner and TV hours. I don't use scatter rugs in the coach at all except in the shower but I only put that rug down for a shower.
I don't know about setting them to 93 degrees as others have suggested. My coach stays pretty toasty with them set at 80 or 85 even on the coldest nights. During the day the floors get set back down to about 75 depending on how cold it is outside.
Bottom line - in my coach the heated tile floors provide most of my interior heat on cold nights. The aquahot takes care of the plumbing bays and supplements the floor heat during the night.
I use the reverse cycle AC heat during less severe cold (down to around 45 degrees outside)rather than the aquahot diesel.

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Yahoo Message Number: 55226
I am curious why you didn't mention the electric heat element in the aquahot itself as and alternative to running the diesel burner. It works well down to about the same temperature range as the heat pumps and eliminates the heat coming down on one's head. For some reason I find that uncomfortable. Of course if you have basement AC then I guess it would be 6 of one, half dozen of the other.

Don Seager

2004 Allure 31046

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> I use the reverse cycle AC heat during less
severe cold (down to around 45 degrees outside)rather than the aquahot diesel.