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Hia, anybody got any experience of warm up underfloor heating?im thinking of putting it in kitchen, is it warm enough to heat a room without use of radiators? Running costs? Cheers baz

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I was tempted Baz but opted out, some lads I work with are going to get it fitted, a lot of european countries have it fitted in homes.. But to me it wasn't worth the cost.

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Hia, anybody got any experience of warm up underfloor heating?im thinking of putting it in kitchen, is it warm enough to heat a room without use of radiators? Running costs? Cheers baz

 

It supposedly cuts down on dust also, as normal radiators, the way they convect heat. supposedly don't help with the dust in a room. You have to leave them on to gradually heat up, better with concrete floors, insulated underneath, as if you had wooden you would lose a lot of heat into floor void and vents..

 

Wet system would be the best and most efficient, a mate has electric underfloor heating and has a wet room, uses it so the floor dries off quickly, said its pretty good.

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Fitted it dozens of times Baz Im a ceramic tiler,to be most effective fit it on the insulated mats screed over it with flexible screed,but even on wood/concrete its still good.Well worth the money IMO,with the thermostatic controller you can set the temps to your requirements and set it to come on/ go off to suit :thumbs: Running costs I couldn't tell you as I don't have it,Im in rented at the minbut should I buy another house I wouldn't hesitate to fit it.The only draw back I can see is you are limited floor covering wise to fit on top of it,laminate floors ,amtico,karndean cant be fitted over it due to the expansion/contraction due to the heat.Make sure if you fit ceramics you use flexible adhesive,grout and screed :thumbs: ATB Dave

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I'm sure it's advertised as being cheap to run.........however my wife used to work for eon,,, in there call centre,,,and she says it's expensive to run judging by all the calls she would get

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Cheers for replies, my room is insulated to death, it's got 100mm kingspan in floor,150mm in cieling and all walls have thermoboard in to, I was going to put it onto them insulated boards they recommend too, iv ran pipes into walls for radiators so could always add a rad at a later day if required, but was sort of hoping at the floor being up to the job. Warm up reckon the running cost it 0.5p per metre per hour to run, if that's right running cost isn't to bad, ....... Iv 20m2 to put down so it could be an expensive trial if it ain't upto the job

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If it's the main heat source in a room it will be the 200w per m2 system, so 5m2 would be 1000w, so for 1hr the cost would be approx 15p per 5m2.

You could probably half that because once up to set temperature, the thermostat will clicking it on and off, so it will only be running half the time or less.

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Cheers for opinions fellas, going to give it a blast I think, worst case scenario if it isn't warm enough I can add rads where pipes are already layed, and dogs are going to love it under there bed haha

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hi there,

we put in a four bed room house, and its costs around 2500 euro to heat the house for a year.

to get the most out of it you would want to leave it on nearly contastly.

liquid screed would be the best to use.

atb, j

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