electric v wet system underfloor heating in bathrooms

[wafflesandcream]

what are the pros and cons of both? Know that electric is more expensive to run though. At this time of year, when we still want the bathroom toasty, would we need the whole heating system on to run the wet underfloor too, or perhaps a separate circuit? And does anyone have electric tile heating only and how does that rate? Thanks

We had electric under floor heating in a rental flat and I remember i was shocked by the bills.. This was quite a while ago though. Hopefully someone will be along soon who has been through this recently!

if you have got a hot-water cylinder close to the bathroom, you can easily have wet bathroom heating, or bathroom radiator or towel-rail, heated at the same time as the cylinder. This is typically during and after running a bath, which is very convenient. Otherwise, you can have the bathroom put on a separate zone, with its own timer and stat, though that will probably be quite a bit of work, if not done during build or installation.

We have wet underfloor heating in a room on the ground floor. It is under solid wood and it would be more effective if it were heating ceramic tiles or engineered wood. We have electric underfloor in one bathroom upstairs, the whole of the kitchen and lounge downstairs which are ceramic and engineered wood respectively. We are happy with the electric and it worries us less than having a leak in the wet system. We have air source heat pumps so are totally electric. We used to have oil so are making significant savings.

we chose electric simply because it only needs to be on when you are using the bathroom for any length of time such as shower or bath. If you have got wet all through the house then it makes no sense to do electric but if it is just for this room then seems the most sensible option.

yes, can see the sense of having electric as we are not having underfloor downstairs and, from what I've heard, wet underfloor in the bathroom needs to be kept on for a long time as it's slow to heat up.