Under floor heating or no heating?

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Hi,

We are about to have a decent wood burner fitted in our lounge and also want to replac the flooring with engineered wood. The house is very well insulated and currently has 2 radiators in the lounge. Its 21 foot by 12 foot. The burner should do a good job of heating the room. We were considering, as we are putting new flooring down, about installing under floor heating but wonder if there is any point given the burner will heat the room well and we have decent heating throughout? We have choice of removing 2x radiators and replacing with 1 floor to ceiling (space saving) and the burner or removing all radiators and installing burner and under floor heating. What would you do? Thank you!

No knowledge of wood burners. But underfloor heating is a huge yes from us..

I would if affordable.

Thank you. It is affordable, I just question whether there is any point? The room will be well heated by the burner and we could keep one radiator. Just for the hassle and cost I'm not sure it would be needed? We haven't had the heating on yet even!

Defo need heating, I have two wood burners, they are fantastic but no way I’d just have them, sometimes you need to put the heating on before you get up or just give the room a quick blast, not be messing with the wood burner.

Thank you! I will def keep some heating, just thinking a radiator will be sufficient and UFH may be over kill / not used. We havent had to use the heating yet and when we do we won't have all the radiators on as it will get too hot. But it seems from the replies that I need to give this more thought!

We have a longe 26ft by 15 ft in a super insulated house. In that room we have a wood/ multi stove ( 5KW) and two radiators. It’s our second home in Scotland. If we have everything on in winter, we have to open a window!

Friend of mine had underfloor heating. 6 months later it stopped working. The original contractor who put it in had gone bust. Nobody could find out how/ who to repair it and it remained there not working for years, during which time they'd had to install electric radiators. They could'nt afford to replace it. I've never considered it a great option ever since she told me this.

My friend also has non-working underfloor heating in her kitchen. I wouldn't because it's a pita if things go wrong.

Yes I’d also go for a couple of radiators.

We considered underfloor heating but we were put off by the thought of it breaking, does the floor get ripped up and therefore ruined by having to fix it? Would've loved to have it though !

Our living area is 10m x5m Has two radiators which keeps it comfortable, we have a 5kw Charnwood arc 5 and have to have the window open when it’s on , it can hit 27c in there.
Modern wood burners produce so much heat for the small amount of wood they burn .
Can’t comment on ufh as have never had it.