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I'm having an extension build which will become a new living room and we have the option to have underfloor heating if we want it. Has anyone on here got underfloor heating and are you happy with it? The new room is going to be open plan to an existing room with radiators. Would this matter? 

 

From what I've read, underfloor looks good but my concern is about reliability and it breaking down, which requires the flooring coming up.

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3 minutes ago, spider1 said:

I think its a load of rubbish you are heating under settes funiture   e t c  besides you got cost maintainance issues.   If it was any good they would put it in new builds 

Stick a rad on wall you can switch it on and off 

 

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Yeah I know what you mean. My friends new build has it throughout the house though and its lovely and warm. But Im unsure on reliability and whether its worth it with there being radiators elsewhere in the other part of the build. 

 

 

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Like to see your friends heating bills.  . Your friends must have been put in under there own request 

no way a builder would do a full house . Not be long before they are  moving 

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Mine is broken (never worked from when we moved in). Its under tiles in the kitchen area extension (which was only a couple of years old so it didn't last long). Switch / fuse box is burnt out. I've never bothered trying to get it mended. Its a luxury I can live without although I admit it would be nice in winter. Walking on a warm tiled floor is lovely.

If it breaks beneath tiles I believe there are companies that use a sort of radar scanner to locate a problem and just lift the one tile.

If you do install it I would insist on a good quality brand from a specialist supplier. Dont just go to B&Q. That would be asking for trouble.

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Yeah it'd be done properly as part of the building work but Its the pulling the floor up if there is problems that puts me off it and knowing my luck, it probably would go wrong!

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What type have you been offered?   There is electric or hot water as in radiators

The cheapest is hot water as the water temp is a lot lower than radiator temp  and thus cheaper

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I did my bathroom the same year I discovered Screwfix.

 

10 lengths of copper pipe for the price of 2 lengths in B&Q. A bag of 50 90* elbows for the price of a bag of 5 from B&Q. Only needed a couple of lengths of copper pipe and five or six elbows to relocate the radiator so instead of sticking the spare in the garage never to be used again, I ran it up and down the length of the bathroom floor between the radiators!

 

Bingo! 'Free' underfloor heating in the bathroom in the winter when the heating is on which doesn't cost a penny extra to run! 😂😅😂

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2 hours ago, Top Cats Hat said:

I did my bathroom the same year I discovered Screwfix.

 

10 lengths of copper pipe for the price of 2 lengths in B&Q. A bag of 50 90* elbows for the price of a bag of 5 from B&Q. Only needed a couple of lengths of copper pipe and five or six elbows to relocate the radiator so instead of sticking the spare in the garage never to be used again, I ran it up and down the length of the bathroom floor between the radiators!

 

Bingo! 'Free' underfloor heating in the bathroom in the winter when the heating is on which doesn't cost a penny extra to run! 😂😅😂

Lot of work you may  just as  well put aa  double rad  in bathroom 

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On 05/04/2019 at 11:00, hartley111 said:

I'm having an extension build which will become a new living room and we have the option to have underfloor heating if we want it. Has anyone on here got underfloor heating and are you happy with it? The new room is going to be open plan to an existing room with radiators. Would this matter? 

 

From what I've read, underfloor looks good but my concern is about reliability and it breaking down, which requires the flooring coming up.

 

I have bought 4 electric underfloor heating kits from Wickes in the past. I have 2 joined together in the downstairs bathroom and one in the kitchen and one in the upstairs bathroom. They have been in for years and I recently tiled over the tiles in 2 of the rooms when we refurbished them. I have had no problems whatsoever. They have all been down a minimum of 5 years.  My electric / gas costs appox £170 / month in a 3 double bed house, 2 adults 2 kids.

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On 5 April 2019 at 23:14, spider1 said:

Lot of work you may  just as  well put aa  double rad  in bathroom 

Not really. The floor was already up, the joists ran lengthwise thereby reducing the number of joins, I had all the copper pipe needed and I had all the tools out from moving the rad.

 

Took about an hour and a half. 😀 

 

(and the bathroom already had a double rad)

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On 05/04/2019 at 21:00, Top Cats Hat said:

I did my bathroom the same year I discovered Screwfix.

 

10 lengths of copper pipe for the price of 2 lengths in B&Q. A bag of 50 90* elbows for the price of a bag of 5 from B&Q. Only needed a couple of lengths of copper pipe and five or six elbows to relocate the radiator so instead of sticking the spare in the garage never to be used again, I ran it up and down the length of the bathroom floor between the radiators!

 

Bingo! 'Free' underfloor heating in the bathroom in the winter when the heating is on which doesn't cost a penny extra to run! 😂😅😂

Well done but the proper copper piping used for under floors is in a coil for a solid floor and is connected to the central heating and is skimmed in concrete and so no underfloor leaks ever

A control unit is used for each room

Miles cheaper than radiators

 

 

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