Watthead, I have never lived in a house with ceiling heat but many years ago designed and installed many ceiling heat systems for projects the required electric heat. All customers were very happy with the system. Baseboard heat is very expensive to operate and there are quite large variances in the temperatures around the room. With radiant ceiling heat the temperatures around the room are the same within a couple of degrees. Radiant heating doesn’t just heat the air, it heats the ceiling, floor furniture and the people standing in the room. If you have had a bad experience with radiant ceiling heat it was because it was not designed/installed properly. All the heating systems I installed were panel systems not individual wires.

Here is some information on one of the system I have installed: http://www.calorique.com/products/ceiling_heating.asp

This is a picture of the product: [Linked Image from calorique.com]

Curt Swartz