Underfloor heating - electric or gas?

[anotherlongwalk]

Otherwise known as dry or wet?

Having kitchen extension. Room will be about 7m x 5m . Have assumed that wet is the way to go as heard this is cheaper to run in the long term, however expensive to fit due to floor having to be dug out.

It will be the main room used in the house so will be on a lot during the colder months.

Any advice welcome thank you

We had underfloor heating and it worked fine in the extension but never really worked retrofitted to the older parts of the house. And it was a lot more expensive to put in.
I'm buying and realising with the new extension I'll probably have to lose the (lovely) wooden floors snd am thinking of just doing electric underfloor heating - there's a move a way from gas now anyway (assuming you have gas heating system).

Wet. Don't try to heat your house with electric underfloor heating. It isn't warm enough and is really expensive to run.

If you have more money than you know what to do with, and are tired of shovelling bundles of £20 notes on the fire, get electric.

A neighbour electric underfloor heating in the en-suite bathroom so they could turn it on all year without having to fire up the central heating in July. I thought this was quite inspired.
For the rest of the house, go plumbed for sure unless you have solar or air source heat pump.
I'm doing a renovation and am planning underfloor in the new parts and sticking to radiators elsewhere.

If you have more money than you know what to do with, and are tired of shovelling bundles of £20 notes on the fire, get electric.

I'll go with wet then thank you!

We’ve got electric in an extended kitchen /dining/ living space and as pointed out is expensive to run. But does warm the whole space nicely . Ours was installed in a number if different zones, with a separate on off switch fir each , so we could turn off the office area when not being used for example . Meant we had a bit more flexibility when needing it on

We have air source heat pumps - so electric. Standard electric is expensive to run. Ours is a wet system. In your case, it would be gas. We got rid of oil for air source heat pumps.

How expensive is expensive regarding electric?

We have underfloor heat mats in our kitchen and both of our bathrooms. It is nice and feels lovely and warm, but is just so expensive to run we don’t bother. We use slippers downstairs, and put the bathroom on when we have guests

Gas is around 3-4 times cheaper than electricity.