In our old house bathroom remodel we wanted an elegant floor that was durable and timeless. That precluded vinyl flooring. Ceramic tiles are man-made and tend to reflect current fashions. We didn't want to install a tile that looked great today but looked out-of-date in a decade.

So the owner settled on marble. We found a very pleasant beige Turkish marble at a store called Menard's (a mid-west chain) for $6 a square foot.  

But we also wanted to stay away from the cold feeling of tile, so we investigated various electric floor heating systems. We needed something that was thin enough to install between the tile backer and the tile itself. After looking at a few web sites we came across Warm Tiles by Easy Heat. We found a local electrical distributor and were pleased by the fact that they had sold several systems locally. The homeowner bought two spools of cable and a set-back thermostat, which totaled almost $500 for about 100 square feet of tiled floor area.

Read on to see if it was worth it.