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Electric underfloor heating or radiator in kitchen?

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Murtette · 30/11/2012 21:04

We're having a new kitchen & flooring installed in the new year. We have stairs which come into the kitchen and the radiator is here which turns the space under the stairs into dead space. As we're converting this into cupboards, the radiator can no longer go there and, as we couldn't think of anywhere else for it to go, we thought we'd have electric underfloor heating (I think its primary if that means anything to anyone). However, a couple of design tweaks mean we could now have a radiator on the opposite wall to where it is now, this is an external wall.

What do we do? Or do we have both? The kitchen is U shaped with a table & chairs at the other end. If we just had the radiator, it would be by the table & so there wouldn't be much heat at the end of the kitchen where the sink, cooker etc are but does that matter as we're doing things there rather than sitting.
Thanks!

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emsyj · 30/11/2012 21:08

We've just fitted a new kitchen and installed a plinth heater which runs off the central heating (in the same way as a radiator). We didn't have the wall space for a radiator and DH read up on underfloor heating and it said it isn't efficient for a small space (or something Confused). Like this sort of thing...

discrete · 30/11/2012 21:09

Electric underfloor heating chews electricity. Our bills skyrocketed after we had it put in over a fairly small area of our previous flat. Was lovely though.

It doesn't cost all that much to put in, so I would be tempted to have both, and tend to use only the radiator unless it's really cold and you find that that is not enough.

However IME enough heat gets generated in the kitchen through cooking and so on that you don't usually need all that much extra heating.

ExhaustTed · 30/11/2012 21:17

We've got both. I agree that underfloor heating absolutely canes electricity but oh so lovely.
It's great to have the option of both, but to be honest the radiator heats the room most of the time and the underfloor heating is just a nice extra.

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