Is underfloor heating worth it for me?

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1teabag0sugar · 05/01/2024 18:21

Hi there everyone,

I have a 1920s house. Thinking about ufh in the extended kitchen. It's got high ceilings, maybe 2.5m. It's not finished yet, but we have a lot of glazing (glass ceilings for the ceiling of the side extension (5 metres by 80 cm), and 6 metres of bifold doors, and then one sky light of 1.5m squared).

I'm wondering whether we should do:

wet system no radiators
wet system with radiators (does ufh ever break down? do we need a back up? Can ufh heat a high ceiling old house very well?)
electric ufh just to have on maybe once in morning for an hour and two hours in evening to warm our feet (when we are in) and just radiators for main heating otherwise?

This is a conundrum I can't think through well! Please help!

OP posts:

Freshair1 · 13/01/2024 08:14

RichmondMumof2 · 13/01/2024 08:07

@Freshair1 Northpoint.

I planned the layout with DIY Kitchens and found Northpoint to be really comparable on price but for a bespoke kitchen. Highly recommend.

Thought it was Luca when I saw it. Thanks.

RichmondMumof2 · 13/01/2024 08:44

@Freshair1 yes, Luca Matt or bespoke painted 😍

Cherubimbum · 14/01/2024 09:50

CatherinedeBourgh · 11/01/2024 08:17

It's a question of how you like to live.

I've had electric ufh, wet ufh and radiators. I am currently in the process of ripping out the wet ufh in my current house. I hate it. The only way it works is if you have it permanently on. But I don't want my temperature to be the same all the time. I want it to be warmer in the morning and before bedtime, and to cool down at night. Otherwise I get hot in the middle of the night, and in the middle of the day/evening when I'm moving around (or cooking). But because it relies on thermal mass, UFH takes forever and two days to get to temperature, so you have absolutely no flexibility.

We have an app that we use to control the thermostats for each ufh zone in our house and don't have this issues you seem to.

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1teabag0sugar · 14/01/2024 15:25

Thank you, this has all been very helpful.

Im definitely going for the ufh. Thank you.

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Freshair1 · 14/01/2024 16:39

Colour me jealous and roll me in cladding.

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