Radiant Heat Wood Floor

The warm appeal of a radiant heat wood floor

Imagine stepping barefoot onto a warm wood floor and feeling the gentle heat radiate through the room. That’s the beauty of a radiant heat wood floor, where heating coils or tubing installed beneath the floor help to keep the surface at a constant, warm temperature. In addition to providing more efficient and consistent heat, radiant heat wood floors adds a sense of luxury and warm elegance to any room.

When designing a wood floor for radiant heat it will be important to understand the best structure for your environmental conditions. At Carlisle we have used both Solid and Engineered flooring over radiant heat with great success. Your Wide Plank Specialist can walk you through the various aspects of making the proper choice.

At Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, you’ll find engineered floors with the most stable and durable core on the market today. Our engineered floorboards are made with 2 or 3 times more plies than standard engineered floors, making them far more dimensionally stable. Our top layer of hardwood is much thicker as well, allowing our engineered floors to be sanded and refinished multiple times. And you can order Carlisle engineered planks in widths up to 10″ and lengths up to 12′, far wider and longer than our competitors’ floorboards. Contact us or stop by a show room today to explore your options for a beautiful radiant heat wood floor with Carlisle engineered planks.

Choosing the wood for your radiant heat wood floor

When choosing a radiant heat wood floor, Carlisle offers engineered floors in a variety of hardwoods that provide a range of colors and character.

• Red Oak is a captivating hardwood that can be as rustic or as modern as required. With deep, salmon tones in the heartwood and a tight, consistent grain structure, Red Oak offers authentic character in planks of exceptional width and length.
• White Oak is a versatile hardwood that can complement any design scheme. With rich, nutty brown and cocoa hues and dramatic grain patterns, White Oak is a highly durable floor that takes stain quite well.
• Rift and Quartersawn White Oak planks make for strikingly beautiful hardwood floors with straight parallel lines in the grain. Floorboards are cut at a 90° angle from the log’s growth rings to create tight, consistent grain patterns with vibrant ray flecks.
• Brown Maple has a natural aesthetic beauty that makes it equally at home in traditional and contemporary designs. With subtle and consistent grain patterns, Brown Maple offers striking variations in color and character that include distinctive brown streaks in the heartwood.
• White Maple floors feature natural color tones with cleaner and lighter hues. The strikingly beautiful but subtle grain patterns of White Maple make it an ideal hardwood for both traditional and modern décor, and it’s a perfect choice for light engineered wood flooring.
• Ash can be easily stained with a wide range of tones for dramatic results in a range of settings. When finished naturally, Ash offers neutral and natural hues in many variations that range from light blonde to cream to rich nutty brown.
• Birch makes unique, captivating floors where each board features subtle patterns in the grain that range from swirls to highly figured flames. Birch boasts hues of rich reddish-brown in the heartwood with blonde outer edges and warm amber portions.
• Cherry features hues of deep glowing red that mature to a rich, burnished auburn color as the floor ages. The grain pattern in a cherry floorboard is subtle but distinctive, making this hardwood an excellent option for both traditional and contemporary designs.
• Hickory is an extremely tough and durable wood with interesting grain patterns that make it a highly versatile wood. The hues in a Hickory floor can range from rich cocoa brown and beige to lighter blonde.
• Walnut floors offer chocolate hues with lighter-colored sapwood and darker heartwood. Its complex grain patterns create a spectacular floor, with or without stain. Walnut is an excellent option for dark engineered hardwood flooring.

Why choose a radiant heat wood floor from Carlisle?

For more than half a century, Carlisle craftsmen have been fashioning the finest wood floors in America one plank at a time. Our wide plank floors are made with the highest quality raw materials available, sourced from the finest forests in the country. Our unwavering attention to detail results in floors of the highest quality and has helped us establish a reputation as a global leader in innovation and excellence. From hand-selecting every board in your Carlisle floor to finishing each plank with a perfect stain or a hand-scraped edge, our artisan craftsman are completely dedicated to crafting floors that will exceed your expectations and meet our strict standards.

Whether your radiant heat wood floor from Carlisle is selected from one of our collections or custom-designed to your specifications, your floor will be a one-of-a-kind masterpiece that will be the perfect reflection of your personal style.