has anybody got

[Aaron P.]

underfloor heating in their house??? im building at the end of the month (hopefully) and not sure of what heating system to go for...the advantage of getting ufh is no oil bills plus i get a grant from the gov. of €6500 for using geothermal..

[topaz]

ive got www.warmup.co.uk underfloor electric heating

its toasty!

[TimGR]

We're building at the moment and looked at both options. I fancied the idea of underfloor heating, but the wife liked the idea of drying things on the radiators. Looks like we'll go for radiators - have spent the last few days trying to work out where to put them - not so easy in an empty shell.

I would be interested to hear from anyone else who has fitted underfloor.

[TimGR]

i get a grant from the gov. of €6500 for using geothermal..

How to you become geothermal if it's electric Do you pipe hot water in from Iceland!

[marky4]

We're building at the moment and looked at both options. I fancied the idea of underfloor heating, but the wife liked the idea of drying things on the radiators. Looks like we'll go for radiators - have spent the last few days trying to work out where to put them - not so easy in an empty shell.

I would be interested to hear from anyone else who has fitted underfloor.

i m8 i'm a plumber and have fitted quite alot of under floor heating and would say if you have solid floors down stairs i would go for wet under floor heating down stairs and rads up stairs as the ufh does'nt work so well in timber floors also ufh is more expensive than rads
poly plumb is a good make

[rwdrs]

We're building at the moment and looked at both options. I fancied the idea of underfloor heating, but the wife liked the idea of drying things on the radiators. Looks like we'll go for radiators - have spent the last few days trying to work out where to put them - not so easy in an empty shell.

I would be interested to hear from anyone else who has fitted underfloor.

Lots of people that actually build there own houses over here (Germany) do tend to go with underfloor, saves space, and especially in the bathroom for example when you get out of the bath/shower the floor's lovely and warm.

There are better ways of drying things BTW, all that dampness in the air not good for the health either

[Aaron P.]

tim u need electricity to power the unit that controls the thermostats, manifolds and all that stuff.....the company that id be using for the ufh has said to me to use ufh all over including upstairs as rads are at a different temp than the ufh ...rads need to be 75 and ufh is 52 not sure if thats degrees though .....

[lee bishop]

ive got www.warmup.co.uk underfloor electric heating

its toasty!

oh yeah, well i've got MAGMA! nobody has bettered that for underfloor heating yet, sometimes its overfloor too, can be a pain to clean up.

[TimGR]

i m8 i'm a plumber and have fitted quite alot of under floor heating and would say if you have solid floors down stairs i would go for wet under floor heating down stairs and rads up stairs as the ufh does'nt work so well in timber floors also ufh is more expensive than rads
poly plumb is a good make

All our floors (3) are made of solid cement. They will all be covered with wood (that's going to cost a ****ing furtune ). They way they put in the conventional radiators is to lay the pipes on the floor, then cover over after with the flooring (either tiles, or in our case solid wood). So far as I am aware the system used here for underfloor is wet (powered by a boiler) - so hot water runs through the pipes laid underfloor, I'm concerned it will make a problem for the wooden flooring laid above.

Thanks for the input

[TimGR]

tim u need electricity to power the unit that controls the thermostats, manifolds and all that stuff.....the company that id be using for the ufh has said to me to use ufh all over including upstairs as rads are at a different temp than the ufh ...rads need to be 75 and ufh is 52 not sure if thats degrees though .....

That's what I've also heard - the ufh runs at a much lower maximum temperature than radiators.

[Aaron P.]

Your right to be concerned Tim about your timber flooring....but if ya got wth ufh the system will be checked first before the screed is poured over it to conceal the pipes.....i know a guy who built a 4000sq ft house & he cut to many corners, he now has alot of problems with the house including leaking pipes in his ufh....all plumbers will give you different advice on wat system to for be it rads or ufh....i feel its a 50/50 talking to plumbers in ireland as the ufh is still relatively new to ireland & as usual the irish are pretty slow with change

[pushrod]

I've got ufh driven by an oil boiler, not geothermal. It's downstairs only with the upper floor being conventional rads.
It's all driven by the one boiler and completely sectionalised so that we can have either upstairs or downstairs heating or both. The same boiler also does the hot water.

We have solid wooden floors downstairs (not laminate) and it's not a problem. The only problem we had with the wooden flooring was ensuring the concrete was dry enough before laying. Even with ufh it took over a year for it to dry out enough to allow the wood to go down. It would of taken less only we sealed it to stop the dust rising. It's a catch 22. we also have tiled floors and one carpet. It works brill on all surfaces.

There are six downstairs zones each running from a room thermostat off a common manifold which itself is thermostatically controlled. It's totally unresponsive and a bit more expensive to run, but I wouldn't change back to rads for love or money. It also allowed us to put in big low windows downstairs as there is no rads. The manufactures recommend that the boiler runs all day as the system shuts itself down when not required but in practice we run it for an hour in the morning and one at night.

You simply set the room thermostats to your own liking and the system takes over. Cushty.

[pushrod]

Ps It's been running for 10 years now with little trouble.

[vinny]

oh yeah, well i've got MAGMA! nobody has bettered that for underfloor heating yet, sometimes its overfloor too, can be a pain to clean up.

nobody else thought it was funny either

it went over their heads or should i say under their feet