Anyone has skirting board heating?

[Onmyleft]

We are thinking of putting in ThermaSkirt. Anyone has this type of skirting board heating?

What happens when you need an item of solid furniture eg. book case?

It would put my off if I were looking to buy.

Isn’t it the same as underfloor heating? Putting furniture on the floor?

Following. This sounds like it should be a genius idea. We have some small bedrooms and the limited wall space has radiators taking up room so I can’t get a bookcase In the kids’ rooms. I didn’t want to swap to underfloor heating as I’d have to rip the floors up which is so expensive and disruptive.

But if I could just get the skirtings swapped for these and the radiators put in the bin that’d be brilliant.

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Sounds interesting. I've no experience but I'll follow for updates

Wow! Never heard of this but it might work well with a heat pump. I don't fancy having to disturb the very old flooring for underground heating.

Actually the reviews are rather mixer.. Back to the drawing (skirting?) board.

We are currently living in Canada and it seems very standard here, ours is controlled by wall thermostats, most are positioned underneath windows so not somewhere you would put furniture, they work very well but they make the air very dry, we have to use a humidifier as well. We have very cheep electricity here (no gas) due to Quebec Hydro so they are not expensive to run, but not sure if that would be the case in UK.

It is standard in the US too from what I can see but looks different. They seem to be called baseboard heating in the US.

I want to put in a heat pump too and because the skirting board heating apparently gives out evenly distributed heat and is a low temperature emitter, I thought it might work really well. We would want the wet one rather than electric.

I don’t want to rip up my floors for underfloor heating and I like my wood floor which isn’t ideal for underfloor heating.

ThermaSkirt has been going for years apparently but they have improved over the years. It would be nice to get some independent views on how well they work.

@Itscoldouthere can you share a pic? What is the correct generic name for them? How do you service them and are they expensive to run?

How do Canadians think about them relative to underfloor heating?

We had this in our old house and it’s great. You just put furniture in front of it, that’s not an issue

What is more of an issue is that we didn’t have a separate thermostat for the main rooms which had heating all around the room so they got much hotter than the bedrooms which had normal radiators

From a design perspective it’s nice, very practical, good for having kids cos they never get as hot as normal radiators but do try and get thermostats for them

@NewHouseNewMe reviews for underfloor heating are mixed too. It’s such a minefield all this heating business.

@ShirleyPhallus what was the name of it and how did you service it?

This is standard heating here in the U.S. Living abroad and in some much older buildings I've experienced radiators as well as those cheap wall-mounted units that are standard in Asia, and I think central heating via the baseboards is better. It does heat the whole house much more evenly, and I prefer using the thermostat to using those little remote controls the wall units require. I also think the wall units are ugly and cheap looking whereas you don't notice the baseboard grates. And placing furniture in front of them isn't a problem. You can also close individual grates as needed.

We inherited this downstairs in our current house, the water version. We found it just did not get the house warm. We took it out last year and have replaced with toasty conventional radiators. Underfloor is a big job unless a new home/extension.

[quote Onmyleft]@ShirleyPhallus what was the name of it and how did you service it?[/quote]
Really sorry but no idea on either of them! DH deals with house stuff like that (sorry to sound like a 50s housewife)

I looked into this but decided against it as my builder said that they don't produce as much heat as radiators and I would therefore find the house too cold .

My husband installed this in our old house. Love it! Took a little while to warm open plan living/ dining area, but kept the house really warm. Was ideal for replacing radiators as the rooms weren't massive. We're not putting it in our new house because the rooms are much bigger so plenty of space for radiators.

We want to put in a heat pump and they do not work with conventional radiators. Heat pumps must be used with low temperature radiators or underfloor heating. We don’t want to reap up our floors so the options are low temperature radiators or the baseboard heating. I think we may try a combination but the hot radiators are not an effective option with heat pumps.

We are currently looking into a heat pumo but don't want underfloor heating for the same reason as you (original floorboards/tiles). We were told that while modern radiators don't work well with heat pumps, we could use the original radiators which are solid metal so take longer to warm up but also hold the heat well.
I've not corroborated that yet but it might be an option for you too.
I will look into this Therma Skirt. Another acquaintance put in a ceiling air system but it was practically a new build by the time they were done.

@Onmyleft I’m afraid being a newbie to Canada I can’t answer many of your questions, we are in a rental condo and I’m pretty sure they are standard in most new builds here. We don’t have gas but also have air con which can be used to heat as well as cool.
We currently only use the baseboard heaters in the evenings our flat is very sunny so we don’t need them in the day, they are on room controls but we only use them in the main living space, never needed them in the bedrooms/bathrooms.
The only negative so far is the dry air they create, but we’ve bought a humidifier to combat that.
I installed underfloor heating in my last 2 uk homes, the main downside I would say was running cost, we put a large about into our last home and it was very expensive to run.
Don’t love the look of these skirting/baseboard heaters but you don’t notice them much in a modern space, dot know if I’d use them in a period property.
We really miss our wood burner, especially in this cold weather.