Under floor heating- is it worth it?

[webster1987]

We are currently in the process of extending our kitchen/dining room to one larger open plan room. We are considering under floor heating but have heard from someone previously that it is very expensive to run. When I've tried to research, lots of sites say it's not but I'm mindful these are the companies selling the UFH!

Would be great to hear people's experiences of the cost of running UFH please, did you see a big jump in your energy costs?

electric underfloor heating tends to be cheaper to install and lots more expensive to run. We have wet underfloor heating in the extension and it’s great. Doesn’t seem to have made any real difference to the bills.

We've electric underfloor heating in the kitchen / utility and it's very expensive to run. When I change the flooring in the other downstairs rooms I intend having wet UFH

If UFH is on your main gas heating system it is cheap to run and very very comfy. Very warm and cozy, couldn't do without it if the room is large.

We are doing the same as you and have opted for wet UFH. We went to someone's house who's recently extended and were very impressed by theirs. Cheaper to run than electricity apparently. x

We got hot water UFH when we redid the kitchen, since the floor quarry tiles were like ice all winter previously. It runs off the main central heating and it means we only need one smallish radiator in the room.

Last time I checked, our utility bills were bang on the average for a family of our size, so it hasn't been extortionate at all in terms of ongoing costs. Plus, we all love it - so cosy.

Absolutely love our UFH.

DH sells UFH and has said in no uncertain terms that we are getting it because it always breaks and costs £££ to get it repaired. He gets people in complaining all the time that it's broken. I'd love it but he said it's not worth it.

We are NOT getting it, sorry!

We have wet UFH powered by a heat pump and it's amazing - house always warm, costs less to run than previous house which was smaller and had radiators with a gas boiler.

I wouldn't get electric UFH though - that's expensive.

I lived in an apartment that had this, and it was absolutely clutch! Specially since the place (city) the apartment was located in experienced cold winters.

I worked in the energy sector including in energy efficiency, and UFH absolutely did increase the cost of energy bills. I then actively avoided it when buying my first house.

Came back to say, the heating was operated off solar, btw, so it wasn’t expensive for the owners to run.

We have wet under floor and it's brilliant . Husband is a heating engineer so fitted it all himself .
He used polypipe's system with overlay panels and 15mm pipe , we've directly tiled on top of the panels . All our floors are heated as we're in a bungalow ,the dogs love it .