As a DIY'er I've installed heated floors in both our bathrooms, and a foyer.

$2500 sounds high to me - $1,500 seems more reasonable..

The basic componets: Heating mat/cable, line voltage thermostat, self-leveling cement, and perhaps another dedicated circuit.

Check out this web site, you can get an idea of the cost of materials.

Warmly Yours

We were thinking about adding it to ours. We had vinyl floors before and they were cold! We switched to tiles and I was worried about them being even colder, but they weren't! We're also in the midwest and this past winter, there wasn't a problem with cold tiles. They are matte, not shiny, and I wonder if that has a little to do with it... probably not. However, we also had to replace our insulation with sprayed foam insulation and that probably did have something to do with it! I'm so glad we didn't spend the money on heated floors.

Approximately 70% of my master bath projects use it. The price doesn't seem unreasonable depending on what is included. If an uncoupler is used to snap the cable into it MAY eliminate the need for a second layer of plywood (saving $$$) and minimize height at door threshold. Some are just to warm the floors and others can be set to the ambient temperature to heat the home. Toekick heaters under the vanity are another option. Certainly not as nice but an option. A hundred dollars will buy a really nice pair of slippers:)

Best investment ever, especially so in our MB which sits over our unheated garage, brrrrr! I sometimes miss having it on in the summer, but I just can't keep it on when the a/c is running.

I'd put heated floors into the category of "nice but not necessary". My tile is chilly in winter but not really cold.

$2500 sounds like an unreasonably high cost.

Thoughts: You're just heating the area on which you'd actually walk, right? You're not heating, for example, underneath the tub or inside the linen closet, right? Is this a large bathroom? For that cost, you could buy some very nice bathmats.

I'm thinking about it but with a limited budget it is on my "nice have" list but would be one of the first items cut when it comes to crunch time. For me anyway, there are probably better bang-for-the-buck features but if the money is still available I will have them installed.

Ours had to be capped off and abandoned because despite being installed by a licensed contractor, it was leaking current and giving us electric shocks when it was on and we touched the shower fixtures (heated floor matt did not run in shower area!). It was nice for the couple days we got to try it out. Have an expert in these floors install it.

We're here in LA and I think the price he quoted was too high. I'm not going to price shop in the middle of the job so I turned him down. We had a new heater put in above the shower so that should suffice. We're used to tile and hard wood and mats will have to do. Thanks to everyone for your feedback.

We discussed heated floors but honestly, I forgot about it. I need to find out how much it would be to add to the price since we're already ripping out tile and redoing electrical.