Underfloor heating servicing

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We’re buying/selling at the moment and the new house has wet underfloor heating. This will be the first time we’ve had it and so have been reading up about how to maintain it.

Everything we’ve read says it needs regular servicing. However, we’ve been told the sellers have never had it serviced and they’re claiming that it’s just like a radiator and so only the boiler needs to be serviced. Their plumber has repeated this.

Anyone with wet underfloor heating- is this correct?

We have a 5 year old house with wet underfloor heating. We’ve never had it serviced specifically, only the boiler. Underfloor heating is amazing!

We have never had our wet underfloor heating serviced either. I am not sure what they would check? It's just some pipes with valves which turn them on or off and a manifold to split the water into the different sections for each room. Not much to go wrong except the valves and that is obvious very quickly and easy to repair.

Agree with above - you don't need wet underfloor heating serviced,, just the boiler.

Thanks everyone! Is there anything we need to look out for with underfloor heating? Any problems we might have?

It will take a while to get used to running it. We have a "low " overnight temperature only about 4 degrees lower than the daytime temp, and set it to come on a couple of hours before we get up because it takes ages to warm up. Day time temp is set to about 18oC