Advice wanted for replacement underfloor heating

DaB00m

My underfloor heating (in the concrete floor) in my first floor flat has failed. The flat is electric only. The heating didn't do the job and I often had to use a oil filled plug-in radiator to top up the heating. 

I've been doing research for the last week or so while trying to also get quotes for electric heating replacement.

From I've already read from a large number of posts I've seen from money saving expert forum. It's it clear there's no "magic" electric heater electric is 1:1 for output so that I get.

However I need a suitable solution for when it comes to selling or renting the flat.

I'd hoping for people's expertise on panel heaters Vs electric radiators, is there really a difference in terms of electric rating if I did rent the flat.

I've considered storage heaters but the implementation costs from scratch don't seem to be viable.

I'm looking at heating a 12m² and a 20m² room. The 12m² being a bedroom with 2 outside walls and poor insulation

Reed_Richards

The only differentiator  I can think of is that people are used to radiators and might not  task notice that yours were electric whereas panel heaters are very obviously electrical devices and so might unsettle those who know how expensive electric heating can be.  

matelodave

Embeddedin the floor electrical heating generally works like storgae heaters and usually utilises off-peak leccy. Any other sort of electrical heating (panels, radiators, oil filled, fan, radiant, Iinfra red etc) is usually "on demand" and will use peak rate energy and so is a lot more costly to run.

As you've found out the correllation is 1:1 and whatever sort of efficiency claims may be made or exotic unguents, fairydust, magic clay, oil or other filling they claim to have, they will still only produce the same amount of heat as the amount of leccy that you put into them.

In the end if you are stuck with electric heating then just make sure that they do have thermostatic control and  ideally a timer and dont spend silly money on them. Make sure that they are adequately rated - if they are too small they may not heat the space adequately.

A larger unit wont cost more to run as the thermostat will control the temperature and should therefore only produce as much heat as the room needs.