SunTouch ProMelt Review

Check out this review from a customer of ours that is enjoying his SunTouch ProMelt purchase just in the knick of time for winter.

"This ProMelt Mat is fantastic!  We recently replaced our sidewalk with a large patio, and laid out this radiant heat mat in a pathway from the driveway to the front door.

Just got our first significant snow (late for this season, 1/10/2011), and there is NO SNOW OR ICE on the heated pathway!!  Exactly what I expected, but it was great to see it in action.  I was like a little kid, staring out the window, watching the snow melt as it fell from the sky.  :-)

I don't yet have the controller installed (I'm operating it manually with the circuit breaker) but one thing I noticed is that this thing works even at 0ºF.  There is an optional low temp cutoff on the controller that kicks in at 15ºF -- this led me to believe that it would not work in lower temperatures -- but it does!

The total price, including controller and wiring, and all installation (done myself), was about $1700, more than twice the cost of the mat itself.  While that amount of $$$ would pay for a lot of snow removal service, there's no service that I know of that does such a superb job as this mat.  And besides that, it uses no salt/chemicals that would otherwise get tracked into the house.

Electricity cost for operation is about $0.20/hr based on stated VA rating.  That part is "cheap"!


- Joe Denison"


Take a look at the entire SunTouch ProMelt line of Mats and Cables on our website.  In my experience the only tricky part about this product is choosing the correct controller to operate the heating element.  Of course we've done this a number of times over the years - so if you have any questions about this don't hesitate to give us a call to match the proper controller to your snow melting needs.