How warm should electric underfloor heating 'feel'? Not sure ours is doing the trick...

[gobblygook]

We've had our kitchen done and put underfloor heating under the unglazed ceramic tiles (big, 600 x 600). We've been building up the temperature to get the tiles used to it. It gets warm, but even at 23 degrees, I wouldn't say it feels 'toasty' underfoot. My DH disagrees. How warm should it feel?

It's not the main source of heating in the room, and won't use it often, but I am keen to know it's working effectively.

Ta

We haven't put ours on for years because of the high cost, but from memory, it was just warm enough for people coming into the house who took their shoes off to say 'have you got under floor heating? So warm enough to feel it through socks. but not hot.

Having the same discussions with my dh He prefers it a lot cooler than me

Hi Gobblegook

we have ours around 22/23 or 25 if cold outside.
the idea is to take the chill off the tile, even at 23 we can feel it on our 60x60 tiles.
but you shouldnt turn the floor off, only in the summer as it costs alot to fire it up again.
we gen have ours on at 6.30 in the morn at 22/23 till 12.30 (when i leave) drop it down to 18, then 22/23 at 4.30 and down to 16 around 9.30 or 10pm.
and we use it as our main source of heat.
but my dh laid the cables rather close under the 60x60's

not very warm

but it will no longer be icy.

Remember it has to heat up a great thick slab of concrete which will take a long long long time.

Building regs require a slab of insulation under concrete floors now. If yours hasn't got one you be heating up the foundations and the earth as well so you might only get a fraction of the heat you pay for.

yeah they should have laid an insulation foam (looks like polystyrene) on the concrete and lay the cable on the top of, as its reflect the heat back into the room.
pretty sure they would have done this as its recommended with most electric under floor heating cables

We have it in our consevatory, and it is excellent;we use the room throughout the year. I go mad though if I find the tiles are "toasty" because I know someone (dh, kids) will have officiously turned it right up hoping for a quick hot fix. If the room gets warm enough I agree with everyone else and wouldn't worry about the temperature of the tiles provided they are not distinctly cold.

Hi all

Thanks. Yes, insulations pads were laid. The room, and house, gets nice and warm, I just thought that I would find the underfloor heating 'toasty' as opposed to 'not cold'...

You want toasty? We are in France and don't know if rules are different here, but our rented house has fantastic underfloor water pipe heating, I have numerous favourite "hot spots", I leap from one to another. Only problems: boiler in cellar looks large enough to heat a small town, the other is where to put bin, as contents tend to stew...

I can only really appreciate mine if I move to a spot in the kitchen that dioesnt ahve underfloor heating, iyswim

Wish I'd spent ££ on another big radiator, tbh

We have it through the house and unless it is actively heating up, for eg a cold spell means the thermostat has kicked in and it is trying to get the temp in the room up, then no, it doesn't feel actively warm, it just feels room temperature or "not cold".

We find ours so effective that we keep the thermostat at 18 usually, 19 if it gets cold outside while it warms up, 20 is too warm for us.