Hi Sandlll, I live in Iceland and here we have geothermal heating in all the houses
I live in a new house (2 years old) and we have heating in all the floors, under tiles and under wood. We love it and would do it again in a heartbeat. so I say got for the heating in the mud room .

I'm not familiar with "heated mats", but we have radiant floor heating in our mudroom/laundry room, which also leads into a bath. We love it. Nothing like it on cold Colorado mornings, going out in the mudroom to put on your boots, and after coming back in from snowblowing. We have porcelain tile in these areas.

We are planning a kitchen remodel and part of the plan is to replace our family room flooring (wood - but very worn) with the same tile as the kitchen. I am hoping to be able to put heated floors in and it does not seem like it will add much to the total cost. I think its a no brainer. Just Do it.

If you can afford to do this, and you will benefit from having it, then it's not crazy to do it. We just had Nu-Heat mats installed in our just about completed MB, and will be putting one in in the hall bathroom. There are a few other brands recommended on this and the bathroom forum (as well as other forums, I'm sure) that are less expensive, I believe (Warmly Yours, Suntouch, etc.). Our tile guy has installed and likes Nu-Heat (their mats are a fabric-type of material, which makes them easier to install than the plastic mesh type in his opinion), so that, combined with his own research, convinced DH to choose Nu-Heat for our bathrooms.

It was just installed, and beyond checking to see if it works (it does!), we haven't used it yet, but I am looking forward to doing so once the weather (and floors!) get colder. I'm sure I'll be wishing we'd installed it all over once we start using ours!

Thanks so much for the feedback! I will check out the Nu-Heat too. I was looking at Warmly yours. Now, I just have to convince my dh. Wish me luck, I'll need it!

We don't have enough mud for mudrooms but I actually get the question!

My answer is get a separate control on the mudroom heater. That way, if you have a lot of people going in and out and you want it cooler in there than the kitchen for putting on and off the outdoor things, as kind of an airlock area with the doors closed between, you can do that. And, for when you want continuous heating the whole way through you can turn it up. Even in my mild climate (because of it?), I hate the come in all cold and wet right to house heat (which I don't keep high), and I similarly don't like putting on my extra warm stuff in the house, and will sometimes carry it out to the porch (extra cold is 40°F). Surely, you have larger temperature differences, so even more of that, in mudroomland.

mats: electric cables arranged into little carpets that make it easier to install than unrolling a cable and hoping one has spaced it all out just right, which one finds out near the end of the roll of cable.

insulation: underneath, is there a concrete slab or a wood subfloor? This makes a big difference.

I love love love my Suntouch heat mats. They are in both bathrooms and my den.. and I just had Warm wire (I think that's what the kitchen guy used) put in the kitchen.

I'd have thought he'd prefer the mat, but I let him use what he was most familiar with. Either way, the thermostat looks almost exactly the same as the others.

I don't have one single bad thing to say about it - including the cost to operate. It's been pretty insiginifcant as far as raising the electric bill. This is primarily due to the fact they its designed to warm the feet and not the room. (It does heat the room a little though).

I should mention that all of those rooms are tile. I've never tried to install it under wood floors, but don't know that you can't. I've just never read up on it yet.