Underfloor Heating

[QuootieSpookypie]

Hiya...
Anyone had this done? Whats it like? my MIL doesnt have central heating () in her house, and I think I read somewhere that underfloor heating costs about the same. Not sure how much though! Anyone know a really rough figure? Its a 3bedroom terraced. Thanks! x

We've got underfloor under the slates in the kitchen, lobby and dining bits which is water pipes fed by a gas boiler. Apparently its cheaper to leave them on all the time as the cost is in the getting to temp ??? Anyone know if this is right?? It does help the heating but we have radiators everywhere too. Not sure on cost, with all the price rises on gas our bills are astronomical!!

We have electric underfloor in the bathrooms, and as far as I can see this just takes the cold off the floor, rubbish at heating the room, and expensive

I've got underfloor heating in my conservatory it is electric and it does heat the room nicely. Making it usable even in the winter. It is different price for under differnt floor types (at least where we got it was) This is who we had do it, their website is informative and has prices for the various floor types :
Ambient

Though I just heard about a new type of ribbon underfloor heating that works under carpet as well as wood & tile and takes less time to heat. But don't know what it is called.

I do think the u/f heating in our bathrooms must have been done really poorly, as it really doesn't make a difference, maybe the heating elements were laid too far apart. Does it make a difference in your conservatory ??

littlemadam I should imagine it is cheaper to leave it on and use a thermostat to control the temp. Like immersion heaters - cheaper to run all the time, than let the water go cold and then use an enormous amount of energy to heat it up. Underfloor heating is a very effective and efficient way of heating normally.

It makes a big difference in the conservatory, floor is nice and toasty and even last Jan when the temp dropped below 0, it was still warm in there! It is 4m x5m, so not a small room to heat !

We had ours installed and the cables were fairly close together I would say.

BTW if I had a choice, I'd go with underfloor -- then you don't have to clutter the walls with rads !! In the US most heating is through vents in the floor or ceiling. And these rads just drive me nuts some time!

We have underfloor heating in our bathroom. Not heating as s uch but takes the coldness off the floor tiles and is run by thermostat.

Still have raditor in there, aaas the underfloor heating is just to tae coldness off tiles.

makes such a difference, haven't bothered to have it on during summer, now its getting a bit chilly its on every morning.