Looking for advice from someone who understands heating systems. We are re-doing our kitchen/family room, and I dont know the best solution. It is about 36m2 but a lot of that is not floor space. We have removed a range cooker leaving one big radiator and very draughty suspended timber floor over a cellar, and it is freezing. It has a utility room next door (door usually open) which has one big radiator and no real windows and is toastie. We are removing walls and taking up the tiles to replace with laminate but have no reason to take up the timber flooring. We have a new boiler.
I would like to live in this room a lot of the time and avoid heating the whole house (big old draughty house) so I have considered an independent source of heat such as gas cast iron stove in place of the range so I could just have this on in autumn/spring, or underfloor heating. Like the thought of underfloor heating as small children & babies spend a lot of time on the floor.
I have been told the 5kw gas stove will not heat the room well. Water underfloor heating it seems is going to cost around £2000 (too expensive) as we will need to take the floor up or put aluminium plate under. The foil mat electric heating seems expensive to run- 32pm for first hour then about 18p per hour there on for calculated size, assuming no other source of heat. I was thinking of having underfloor instead of rads, as we have to remove the current one anyway as the wall is coming out. Putting in both means having both heating systems running which sounds expensive to run and install though I guess each reduces the running cost of the other.
Some people are saying it is cheaper to heat your house than one big room with underfloor heating or a gas fire, which defeats whole purpose really. Advice please
