thermoleum
Winter. Cold. Great.
Underfloor heating solves one of the minor problems of life, but can also take away one of its great joys. Cold bathroom floors in the morning with no socks on - heaven - wakes you up quicker than a double espresso and a slap in the face.
But underfloor heating exists precisely because sometimes the thought of that cold floor is enough to keep you in bed until Thursday. We’re doing up the bathroom, and I want to partially heat the floor - but only partially. For fun, I want to tile the hot bits red, and the cold bits blue. My better half has better taste than me, so I’m not allowed to. But it triggered an idea:
Introducing thermoleum, the heat reactive floor vinyl / lino / tile. Works exactly the same as those stick on refrigerator thermometers, only on your floor. Just imagine the fun! I’d be tempted to heat very small hotspots in front of the sink, the loo etc… where you would expect to stand most often - but leave the rest cold. Just because it would look cool.
For larger bathrooms, heated ’stepping stones’ could make the long hike from the shower to the basin a pleasure.
One additional challenge is of course to make it react quickly enough to show where you were standing a minute ago - like ‘heat cam’ on ‘police stop criminal’ or whatever it’s called.
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Steve invents things while travelling to work on the train. He sketches them in his moleskine notebooks. Instead of actually making them (and becoming a billionaire overnight) he posts them here for the good of mankind.
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