[Closed] Underfloor heating - yay or nay ?

One of those if you have it you would miss it if you dont you wont miss it. I had it installed under our kitchen floor as its got porcelain tiles and it is nice to walk on and the kids can sit on it and play comfortably. if its not on then its quite uncomfortably cold to walk on and we also use it to heat the room. I would always recommend it if you have the choice but it can be expensive to install and run.

Friends have it in their bathroom, stayed in a cottage with it in the kitchen in the summer.

Would love to have it if the chance/house came up, makes cold mornings much more bearable.

No direct experience of the cost of installing and running it though.

Electric is expensive to run and some systems would struggle to heat a large room adequately. If you do get it, keep a rad or 2 if possible. It does feel lovely under your feet on a cold morning though.

Thanks for your comments, it's definitely a bit of a dilemma as it's a fair sized area so don't want to miss the opportunity & regret not having it later but expense is always an issue when there's so much going on already as part of the building work ..

I installed electric UF Heating in my kitchen / diner under the new tiles floor.

Set thermostat and timing to only come on at certain times of the day and only if the floor is below a set temp.

I use mine to take the chill off the tiles so we don't get cold feet. Although I could turn it up enough to heat the room, I kept the existing radiators to do this in a cheaper way!

We love it! Bit of a luxury that I will miss when I move house shortly.

Not noticed a significant increase in electricity bills (prob because I just have it set quite low).

I put water underfloor heating in my kitchen/dining room and love it. What I didn't love was laying all the pipe out, it was like a coiled spring and very nearly all went in a skip.

Had it previously in a kitchen to heat tiles and room.

Larger bills and more importantly when you moved into the rooms without it they felt cool even though they weren't.

This wasn't because the kitchen was red hot... just the fact that you are no longer physically in touch with the heating element in rooms without underfloor.

So maybe Smartboy by name, smart boy by nature.... think I'll use his way in way new place

For a kitchen I'd say a must-have with hard flooring. But then I'm not a slipper wearing kind of guy.
It makes a huge difference and I spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen, usually on my feet cooking and cleaning up etc. and it's nice to have warm feet. Wish we had it in the bathroom too in hindsight, although I spend more time on my feet in the kitchen.

It's an expense I would build in for a kitchen/diner for sure as you will literally feel the benefit. Ours is electric and doesn't seem overly expensive to run. We do have an additional radiator too, mainly used as a towel rail.

Also consider a kickboard heater for the kitchen, if underfloor isn't an option. It's made a big difference to ours...

Great info, thanks very much all, will give some serious thought 🙂

Have it in the conservatory and in the kitchen. the first few days it was lovely but now I don't like it. After a while it made me feel really uncomfortable. Having really warm feet but the rest of your body is cooler.

Kitchen has flotex now and feels great.

Just installed it in the whole of my downstairs, not to heat the room, just to take the chill off the floor (again, so it's comfortable to walk on in socks and the boy can sit/play on it) as its a large open plan area that's all porcelain tiles.... We went for electric and got the lowest rated possible, 100w, and did an area of 68 square meters.... It bloody ace, haven't needed any heating on yet either down there... Can't comment on running costs just yet, but 100w can't be that expensive... Can it!?! Eeek!

We got the whole shebang from eBay too, from a seller called (rather originally) underfloorheatingstore

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That's 100w per m2, X 68 = 6800w, it's gonna be expensive to run

No brainer IMO, get It fitted

We stayed at an eco cottage on Anglesey a few years back that was solely heated by underfloor heating under laminate flooring. Being an eco cottage the actual central heating was powered by solar panels so I can't imagine the costs would be too great, was amazing though when you woke up on a chilly morning!

We got the whole shebang from eBay too, from a seller called (rather originally) underfloorheatingstore

That's brave unless you thoroughly researched the seller. I wouldn't want to be digging up my whole downstairs floor if it went tits up.