Electric underfloor heating?

ipri

we are having a kitchen extension built soon. We thought about elec. UF Heating..we dont have Central heating....also..the existing kitchen ( and rest of house)..has a concrete floor....no floorboards...Does this system really heat the room...not just warm bare feet!...thanks ian

chris1973

Does this system really heat the room...not just warm bare feet!...thanks ian

It will eventually heat the room but it will take hours to do so, at least when its very cold outside. Underfloor Heating is notoriously expensive to run and unless you run a catering company and are in the Kitchen all day, putting the UF heating on at 8AM just so you can be warm in there for 40 minutes to make Lunch is a waste of money and likely to cost a fortune.

Unless you spend hours in the Kitchen each day, every day, i'd look at something which heats the room faster, and so can just be switched on / off as you go in there for short lengths of time.

Plinth Fan Heaters are good in this respect, which fit in the bottom of kitchen units. They have a loading of around 2kw - 2.4kw which is about the same as a medium - large section of UF heating, the difference is that the Plinth heater can just be run for instant heat and fast room up time as and when required, where the UF has to be set to come on hours before hand, or worst still be left running all day because of the length of time it needs to heat the floor and then the room.

ipri

Thanks for that....we will have a small utility room adjacent the new ext. could we have a small boiler for hot tap water in the util. room that also supplies a radiator in the extension? ian