Serving Midvale, UT
Heated floors in Midvale, UT
Electric mat or cable set under the tile, most often in a bathroom.
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Midvale runs from the oldest housing in this part of the valley to some of the newest. Around historic Main Street and the blocks by Midvale City Park the bathroom floor is rarely flat, and a heating element needs a flat bed under it and an even cover over it, so flattening comes before the mat rather than after. That flattening plus the element plus the tile adds real height in a house where doors and transitions were fitted long ago. At Bingham Junction the floor starts flat and the question becomes layout.
What this covers
- Electric mat systems under bathroom floors
- Loose cable laid to fit an irregular room
- Heat under kitchen, entry, and basement tile
- Floor sensor and thermostat placement
- Self-leveling or mortar bed over the element
- Heated floors as part of a full tile install
What affects the scope
Every tile job is different, and the independent installer who does the work sets their own price. These are the things they will usually need to know before they can estimate:
- The heated square footage, which is the usable floor and not the whole room
- Whether the system is a prefabricated mat or loose cable set by hand
- How the element is covered, since a mortar bed and a self-leveler are different work
- Where the thermostat goes and how far the floor sensor has to run
- Whether the existing floor is coming out first
- Whether the room is being fully retiled or only the floor is changing
Worth asking any installer directly: are you licensed and insured for this work, what waterproofing system do you use, what is your estimate and what does it include, when could you start, and what happens if something is not right afterwards? Related reading: What does tile installation actually cost?
Scope and licensing: The heating element is set by the tile installer, but connecting it to the electrical supply is licensed electrical work in Utah and a separate trade. A dedicated circuit is commonly required, which is an electrician's call and not a tile question. Related reading: Does a tile installer need a license in Utah?
Heated floors across Midvale
Requests come from the older neighborhoods around Main Street and Midvale City Park, the streets along the State Street and 7200 South corridors, and the newer residential at Bingham Junction and Jordan Bluffs.
Questions
Frequently asked
How much does a heated tile floor cost in Midvale?
In the old stock near Main Street the work in front of the element usually decides it, since a floor that dips and runs downhill has to be brought flat before anything is embedded in it, while a Bingham Junction floor starts flat and the heated area, the mat or cable choice, and the thermostat run set the scope instead. Taylorsville Tile Co. does not set prices. If an independent local installer is available for your job, that installer gives you their own estimate and you agree it directly with them before any work starts.
How much does a heated floor raise the finished floor in an old Midvale house?
Enough that it gets measured rather than guessed. The stack is whatever flattening the old floor needs, then the element, then the mortar or self-leveler covering it, then the tile itself, and in a house from that era the doors, the toilet flange, and the threshold into the hall were all set to a floor height that is about to change. The installer checks the door swing and the transition before the element is ordered. Raising a flange or trimming a door is ordinary work, but it is much cheaper to plan than to discover.
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