Electric underfloor heating advice

roytom2

I’ve got builders redoing my kitchen. The floor needs to be removed and then relayed about a foot higher to be level with the flooring of the hall. There’s existing central heating and a gas pipe underneath it. It’s not really possible to relocate the water pipes or gas pipe. 

Therefore, I thought that when a new tiled floor was installed It would be a good idea to have the underfloor heating in separate circuits so that if the floor ever did need to be lifted (ie. the bit over the pipes) only part of the underfloor heating would need to be replaced. The people I contacted about this seem to think it was not possible to have the underfloor heating in separate parts like I want it. How can this possibly be true?
TIA

Rodders53

Electric UFH (cheap to install, expensive to run)?
or
Wet UFH from a gas boiler heating circuit (expensive to install, cheaper to run)?

Anything is possible if you are willing to pay for it.  Tradesman say no = it's "too hard" and needs extra thought and care in a design.

Exodi

Rodders53 said:

Electric UFH (cheap to install, expensive to run)?
or
Wet UFH from a gas boiler heating circuit (expensive to install, cheaper to run)?

The thread title is electric UFH.

roytom2 said:

Therefore, I thought that when a new tiled floor was installed It would be a good idea to have the underfloor heating in separate circuits so that if the floor ever did need to be lifted (ie. the bit over the pipes) only part of the underfloor heating would need to be replaced. The people I contacted about this seem to think it was not possible to have the underfloor heating in separate parts like I want it. How can this possibly be true?
TIA

If you were so worried about one particular spot, could you not just leave a gap there?

cerebus

What kind of floor are you having laid? 


It's always possible to relocate pipes, if they are run around one edge of the room then simply don't put the the electric heating mats right to the edge.

To be fair properly installed pipes shouldn't spring a leak and should last a very long time anyway

Theses also the option of installing ducting and using plastic pipes so there is no joints on the water pipes and if in the unlikely event something happens you can pull in new pipe without disturbing your floor at all