Cost saving, invisible, and warm — underfloor heating is a winner. View Gallery A cosy country farmhouse with modern interiors. The ultimate guide on buying the right flooring for your home Inside Out. Home heating: what you need to know Inside Out. Why we love timber panelling Homes To Love Nov 01, Wine cellars: 5 tips for designing the perfect one for your home Inside Out Oct 25, A Melbourne home's colourful reimagining real living Oct 13, How to build a granny flat Inside Out Oct 08, An inner city cottage terrace renovation for two apartment dwellers Inside Out Oct 05, One of the main benefits of underfloor heating systems is how they feel.
Heat gently emits upwards from the floor, making cold floors feel warm underfoot. UFH systems produce an even warmth, eliminating cold spots and draughts common with radiators.
Warm water underfloor heating uses far lower flow temperatures than a radiator system. By covering a larger surface area it is still able to heat the room effectively, using less energy in the process. This eliminates the need for radiators, freeing up valuable wall space. UFH is ideal for open plan living, smaller homes, and rooms such as kitchens and bathrooms where space is at a premium. Underfloor heating has no exposed hot or sharp edges.
This makes it a safe option for young children and the elderly. UFH is also great for allergy sufferers as it provides warmth free from draughts and dust movements that can aggravate certain conditions. As a low temperature heating system, underfloor heating uses less energy than traditional high temperature systems like radiators.
This can help you to reduce your carbon footprint — even more so when installed alongside a heat pump. Let's discuss your project. Underfloor heating for new builds Underfloor heating is cost-effective and simple to install as part of a new build project, fitting neatly into the build schedule. UFH for new builds.
Underfloor heating for renovations Remodelling or updating your home? UFH for renovations. Upstairs underfloor heating Did you know that underfloor heating is a great solution for all floors of a property, not just downstairs? UFH for upstairs. UFH for single room. Electric underfloor heating Why electric underfloor heating could be right for your build? Electric UFH. Underfloor heating thermostats Choose the right thermostats for your project. Thermostats for UFH. Around 3x more than warm water underfloor heating Generally cheaper to install Install in a single room in just a few hours.
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Polished screed and resin Solid and engineered wood Carpets and rugs. Less air movement equals less dust movement, making UFH more hygienic, especially ideal for allergy sufferers. Electric systems are more a ordable and less disruptive to install, but their running costs are higher, so they are best suited to smaller spaces such as tiled bathrooms, or spots that are awkward to get to. Wet systems are made up of pipes that are typically connected to your boiler, and use warm water from the central heating system.
While a condensing boiler will offer the greatest potential savings on running costs, any boiler can be used with UFH, as long as it has a sufficient capacity. The water is pumped through plastic pipes that are laid on to a sub floor, before the new final surface is installed. By nature, they are more costly and disruptive to install especially if a floor-level alteration is needed to accommodate the pipes. However, they are the most cost effective solution.
Image credit: Electric underfloor heating system by Warmup. Dry UFH is available in the form of basic heating cables, sometimes loosely woven into mesh mats, flat or ribbon cables, or heating films. The mats or rolls are spread out, connected together and are then linked up to the thermostat and mains power supply. Your flooring is then laid on top. There are three types of dry UFH available: Loose wire is suitable for stone or tile floors and ideal for irregular- shaped rooms with awkward corners or obstacles.
Matting is good for stone or tile floors, too, and large or more regular-shaped rooms. A foil mat system is designed specifically for laminate flooring. In general, electric systems are cheaper to install, and cause less disruption to existing floor structure. They also allow the room to reach the required temperature faster than the wet varieties because they are direct heat sources.
On the downside, they are more expensive to run than wet systems, which are more cost efficient. Underfloor heating is mostly used in ground-floor rooms but, in reality, there is a system to suit any type of floor construction. Electric underfloor heating is likely to be more suitable for existing rooms as the electrical mesh system is flatter than a wet system so there is less need for floor heights to be altered to accommodate it.
There are even electrical mat systems available that can be used under rugs on existing hard floors. As a general rule, solid wood floors are not suitable for use with underfloor heating, unless specified by the manufacturer. Engineered boards, which are composed of at least three layers of wood laid with the grain of the centre layer running at right angles to the outer layers, are less prone to movement and most can be used with underfloor heating.
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