Tell me about UFH

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Please tell me about your experiences with UFH in a renovation. I have tried Googling but I'm so confused! We currently have electric UFH in our kitchen but it seems very expensive and we are completely renovating the ground floor - including relocating kitchen and replacing all flooring. I'm thinking wood effect tiles (it's a modern house) but obviously put off by the cold feeling. As far as I can gather wet UFH is better / cheaper to run but more expensive to fit and difficult to retrofit? Thanks if you've got this far!

We have wet UFH heating in our kitchen and electric UFH in our bathrooms (latter are upstairs and felt irrationally weird having wet up there…). We went for wood effect tiles from Topps - they don’t feel cold ever.

Would do it again in a heartbeat.

@LondonNQT thank you!

We have wet UFH througout ( its a bungalow) with porcelain tiles to all rooms except bedrooms. Love it.
Its a different sort of heat. House just feels permenantly comfortable. We had the UFH retrofitted. Our system is an 18mm EPS overlay board system so we lost 18mm of room height.

We have a retro fit wet UFH system recommended for older houses which sits on top of floorboards. We used wundafloor who were very good. You do need to take all the skirtings and doors off tho. We have it upstairs and downstairs and as a pp said, makes the House year round comfortable. Much cheaper to heat than rads.however, as the system only comes on when the thermostat says it needs to, it does mean that the tiles downstairs feel cold to walk on but tbh, the benefits outweigh the negatives.

We’ve got wet ufh in huge extension put in during building it. It’s great and not expensive. We had electric put in the two, small, bathrooms upstairs. That’s not too expensive as it’s only on for a hour in the morning really, both rooms upstairs also have radiators.

we discussed retrofitting downstairs but we’re sick of disruption from building, liked the original 100 year old parquet so didn’t pursue it.

Thanks everyone - that's really helpful info!

I have ceramic wood effect tiles in the kitchen and bathroom, installed by the previous owners. We have gas fired radiators ( not enormous). I am surprised that the floors aren’t cold, I have had vinyl before and I can’t tell the difference.