Under floor heating

[Jolonglegs]

DD and her partner are thinking of moving into a house with underfloor electric heating. Does anyone have any experience of issues or costs?
Thanks

Only through being a visitor to two different houses with it. It was lovely and warm. Homeowners seemed really pleased with it (both were new extensions). My concern would be the difficulty in accessing it, as and when something needs a repair (which, over time, everything eventually will).
However, I'm only speculating really. Perhaps this will bump your post for someone in the know.

Yes love it, have it in the kitchen and consevatory. We just use it to keeps our feet toasty ( we are barefoot indoors) on the tiles rather than heat the room as we also have radiators there. Heats up much much faster than the radiators. We have it on a seperate thermostats and you choose to set it according to floor or room temperature.

Find we only use it for hour in the morning before work. When we get back in the evening, the radiators have warmed up the tiles by then.

If it’s their only source of heating for the whole house I guess it’s going to cost a bit more than gas ( but the extra over say 10 years is going to be miniscule compared to the cost of the house depending on where they live)

Have water based and it’s brilliant, was debating electric-friend has that and he was very happy with it although he has a radiator too so electric heats the floor so it’s warm to touch but the radiator keeps the room temp up, slightly odd set up but works for them.

Our bathroom with electric underfloor heating costs a fortune to run. Wet systems are much cheaper.

We were advised against the electric version because of the cost - much more expensive to run than the wet version (which we now have and is brilliant). On previous threads people said they turned theirs off because their bills soared.

Energy from electricity costs about three times as much as energy from gas.

We have no gas where we live but have air source heat pumps. We have wet underfloor heating on the ground floor and electric in bathrooms upstairs. Obviously these are relatively small rooms so we don’t notice the cost. However, underfloor heating is great and you don’t need it on all the time. In a small flat it’s fine.

Love our wet UFH - different kind of warmth

No experience of electric personally, but friend has it and says it's expensive

Never again from me.
We had electric through our kitchen / breakfast room. It was v v expensive to run, the thermostat broke twice, now it has stopped working altogether and the only possible solution is to take the hard floor up to try to find the fault, & the floor is wall to wall under the cabinets. We now have oil filled rads in the room but it is cold.

We have wet underfloor heating and it’s cheaper to run than the old radiators.

Electric underfloor heating is very expensive to run as your only heating method. Very glad we avoided it for our large house.

We just had our 2 bathrooms done with under floor heating. Ours works with central heating.

Might be worth looking into whether it can be connected to air source pump to reduce the running costs.