Customer Reviews for SunTouch Floor Warming Mat 48 ft. X 30 in. (120 sq. ft.) 240V

I used this in my half bath that I remodeled myself. Having zero construction/remodel/electrical experience, this product was great to use. I did have an electrician wire it to the circuit breaker but it was easy for me to install from there. The mat is cut-able but for the tight spaces I had I didnt try it and just covered the main area, which worked fine. In the future I would use their loose wire/membrane option, making it more customizable.

Pretty happy, heats the ceramic tile, not as hot as I would like but works.

you can see in my pictures, the wire has floated to the top of the cement where it wasn't glued. You can also see that the mesh from the heat mat has floated up. HD should allow more the two lines of text for complete, honest review.

Worth the investment and extra effort to install. It’s wonderful to step on my new warm tiles! Easy to install. Highly recommend!

I felt the installation instructions could have been a bit clearer to allow a DIYer a more a better understanding of the installation needs and procedure.

I have put this in every bathroom I ever re-do. I even put this in my apartments. I like the simpler thermostat better—has less bells and whistles, and we can all do with less bells and whistles in tis modern era. People love the warm floors next to clawfoot tubs and showers and toilets! I hope they keep carrying the easy mat style. I always use a four gang box and then put in a single gang mud-ring over the top. Once I used a single gang box only at 5 feet and it worked OK, just a little crowded. I have this in a beach cottage I built too, and it is deluxe as heck!

Had this installed this summer and love it. My only issue is that i was told the heat would radiate to the surrounding tiles so i didn't need to install on the whole floor. Not true. The tiles adjacent to where this is installed are cold as ice (figuratively). For the cost, i would have easily place it on the whole floor instead of the areas i thought i needed.

Worked as advertised. Contractor did not have any issues with installation. They were able to pour leveler right over top and then placed the thin-set and tiles without any issue. Seemed like easy install for experience contractor. I've had the floor heat on for about two weeks with the temp set at 76 degrees with the suggested digital thermostat. Its keeping the ceramic flooring nice and warm. I will buy again when I do the second bathroom.

I just purchased this item and had it professionally installed by my tile setter during my master bath renovation. Everything was installed correctly and the unit does work - but just barely! Even with the thermostat set at 90, it has barely warmed the initial coating of thin set mortar after nearly 5 hours of operation. There is NO way it will warm the floor when temperatures are actually cold. Unfortunately, this is an item that cannot be replaced once installed. DO NOT waste your money on this product - spend a little more and get a quality floor warmer.

Great product, works well and I love the warm toes - no regrets there! I liked that you could cut and re-arrange where the heating sat Three things to be aware of: 1. You have to be VERY careful not to damage the wires. 2. The wires can make placing the tile uneven so you need to have fairly thick grout and lay the tile without your own weight on it. Obviously if you have a large area to cover, this could be difficult if you're laying from the center of the room and work yourself into a corner. 3. The instructions specifically say that the circuit should be 15 amps where my electrician said it should be 20 amps. You might want to calculate your load and clarify before you install.

Installed this during a bathroom remodel. I laid the mat to cover the high-traffic areas and cut one section on the end and flipped it around for coverage in front of the vanity. The directions are thorough. I used just a multimeter and kept good tabs on the OHMs. To protect the mat from the trowel cutting the wire while laying, I covered the smooth ends of my trowel with duct tape. This seemed to work well. I smoothed a skim coat over the mat then used a 1/4" trowel to lay the base. For areas with no mat under the tile I used a 1/2" trowel. This helped keep the tile level whether over the mat or not. Difficulties I ran into was the mat coming up with the thinset when I was smoothing the skim coat over. I learned to keep the trowel at an angle and not pull it straight off. The double-sided tap was helpful but thinset is sticky. Also, get the mat as flat as possible so it does not bunch up while you are skimming it with thinset. The last problem I had was my 'key tile' was on the mat which had covered the mark I had on the floor. Keep this in mind and plan that key tile well. It draws only 1.5 amps but I wired a sole 20 amp circuit for the mat and a GFCI outlet. I did not wire the thermostat for the mat as a load off the GFCI as the thermostat GFCI and outlet GFCI would trip each other. The mat takes about 10-15 minutes to warm the floor. I have never been on a heated floor and it does not get too hot. It is a little warmer than a wood floor. Nonetheless, it is much better than cold tile. I can certainly feel a major difference when I step on a heated mat area versus a non-heated area.

Kids came home for Christmas and loved the new floor in the guest bathroom. It takes a long time to heat up over the concrete basement subfloor, but it is nice when it's ready. Keep your thinset thick. My tiles aren't perfect along the edge of the mat. You need to build up the area around the mat. Also, I didn't dig deep enough holes in the concrete subfloor. for the thermostat or the connections and they required a lot of building up thinset around them.

My husband and I love our radiant floor. I wish we would have installed it throughout the rest of our home. It is so wonderful to put our feet on a warm, cozy floor. Highly recommend. We installed with the digital programmable thermostat.

Home depot designed, provided ALL materials, and were very helpful all the way from start to finish!!

This is a great product. I would recommend laying it in with thinset before you tile, trying to do it in one step was nearly impossible for me. I pulled up the few tile I set and just put a coat of thinset over the whole matt. The next day I went in and tiled the floor and found it much easier to keep the floor level with out worrying about damaging the heating wire.

I installed this in a small master bath over Hardibacker and followed with self-leveling cement before I tiled. Only needed 5 ft but went with the 6ft and cut the mesh, which was a good move. Install the mat and worry about the power and thermostat later. For the price, it is well worth it even if you mess up. I fished the wiring up the wall because I knew I would need to run power from the outlet receptacle, which works out fine because the mat only pulls 180 watts!. That's nothing even on a 15 amp shared fuse like mine. Remember not to cut the actual blue power cord/heating element. I installed large format tiles on top so I decided to use the self leveling to save me a headache later but you could install directly if you prefer. Sure the floor level comes up but in older homes like mine, there's not much that can be done. Despite the depth of the finished floor (1/4" self leveling underlayment cement, 1/2"thinset, & 3/8" tile), it only took about 15 min before I could feel the heat. At first I thought it didn't work, but it takes a little while to heat so be patient and enjoy the fruits of your efforts. Couple notes: As long as you have a multimeter and test for resistance regularly, you don't need the loud mouth gadget. If you're a pro who will install these often then it might be worth the investment. Also, the thermostat and sensor come separately so don't forget to purchase that and install the sensor before you cover the mat.

The warming mat looked and installed as advertised. It is designed to use minimal electricity. This product was reasonably easy to install under ceramic tile and we added an on/off switch so that the product can be turned off during the summer months. We installed it in the laundry / mud room area in front of the washing machine and dryer. It will warm the floor during laundry days on cold winter nights.

I installed this mat under the tile floor of a new bathroom I'm building. It is a well-made product and the instructions are very clearly written for even the beginner DIY'er. Follow the directions and be careful during the installation and you'll enjoy warm feet for years.

When renjvating my house we ripped out the ikd bathroommfloor and had to replace the heated flooring. Thisnone seemed be good, it is not! It bareky even makes the floor feel any dofferent, DO NOT IMJSE THIS ONE FIND A BETTER ONE

The heat off this mat is wonderful! Our kitchen is now the warmest room in the house; such an improvement over the 2 kick heaters we had. There are probably easier mats to install -- we worked with our contractor to lay it out and learned some tricks about using spray glue and a hot glue gun to make sure everything stays down -- but he swears this is the best mat of all he has tried. And since we poured self-leveler on top it made tiling over it very easy. So far we are really pleased.

We did not know that this came in different sizes and couldn't be cut.

This review is about the mat I bought 13 yrs ago. Does the job pretty well. I installed it in the shower floor. Works wonders on a marble stone. I only had to replace the thermostat once over the years. Hopefully the two mats I recently bought will last at least the same number of years.