Electric or Warm Water Under Floor Heating

[ebaxter]

Hi, Looking for advice of anyone who has either of these systems. We really want UFH for many reasons - nicer heat than radiators, no more radiators, lots of wood flooring so nice underfoot and hopefully cheaper running costs!

we are having an extension built and this can have warm water UFH easily installed. Our existing floors however are alittle more problamatic.

We could go to great expense to dig up existing concrete and try and sort out the wooden suspended but my question really is which is better electric or underfloor.

So many companies now claim electric can be just as efficient as warm water and it's certainly easier to install.

Any advice from experts or people who have either and love it or hate it!

Many thanks.

In my experience, warm water is much more economical. We have it downstairs and it is fantastic. In the bathroom upstairs we have electric and it is OK for a small space, but even then we rarely turn it on as it is so expensive to run.

We have warm water and electric - the electric is extremely expensive to run - massive spike in our electricity usage when I turned it on.

Think if it was a choice between electric underfloor, digging concrete up for warm water or radiators I'ld go with radiators.