Underfloor heating in living room and bedrooms?

geordie_ben

Does anyone here have underfloor heating in their living rooms and bedrooms?

I love the idea of having underfloor heating in almost every room in our house, but I can't find much info or reviews of it anywhere other than in kitchens and bathrooms

Anyone out there got a similar set up?

We're gonna be looking at; Living room, dining room, kitchen, downstairs WC, hallway (?), 2 large double bedrooms, a babies box room, landing and hallway (?) and finally large family bathroom

Not 100% sure on hallways yet

MX5huggy

Hope your thinking about wet underfloor, ie attached to a boiler.

Electric would cost a fortune to run.

UF is rarely retro fitted, because you have to rip up all the floors.

geordie_ben

I wasn't sure which to fit

Ideally I wanna run it from solar panels if electric

and we'll be taking the floors up anyway

MX5huggy

Powering your under floor with PV panels is not a good idea.

1m square of UF is normally 150watts, 1 panel of PV typically produces 250 watts on a clear bight day (the sort of day you don't need much heating).

The typical PV install is 16 panels (4000 watts, or 4kW peak). On your bright day you would heat 26 m sq of floor.

By rip up floor I don't just mean floor covering I mean floor boards and or 4 to 6 inches of concreate.

abankerbutnotafatcat

We've fitted electric ufh in our kitchen and love it. We'd happily have wet ufh on entire ground floor but for the logistics of retro-fitting it. OH is Scandinavian and its the normal method of house heating over there and it works very well. It's surprising how much space you can free up by removing rads too.

BTW in Scandinavia there is a new (well, new to me) type of heating too that OH's parents have had fitted which takes the heat from air outside apparently and otherwise looks like a wall-mounted a/c unit.

Mojisola

MX5huggy wrote: »

By rip up floor I don't just mean floor covering I mean floor boards and or 4 to 6 inches of concreate.

And if you are doing this, make sure a thick layer of insulation goes down. Just having the insulation put down with the new floors has made a massive difference in our house.

eilidh_s

If your house is really well insulated then it's perfect. I have a wet UFH system connected to an air source heat pump and I love it. My house is mainly open plan and I have three zones in the living/kitchen area and each bedroom is a separate zone. The two bathrooms are open flow which keeps the whole system ticking over and if it needs to put heat into another zone then it doesn't take too long to come up. I hardly ever wear shoes in the house now. Love it.