Underfloor electric heating for kitchen. Any advice?
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I am in the process of getting folk in to quote for a new kitchen instalation.
The house is a fairly large Farmhouse and kitchen itself is 7m x 5m. The ceiling will be lowered but will still be 3m high.
Existing heating is a single pipe oil fired central heating system with one double radiator in the room. It is fair to say that in winter the kitchen isn't invitingly warm so part one of the "wants" for the new instalation will be for additonal heating capacity for the room when in use.
One of the designers mentioned electric underfloor heating as a solution and another mentioned it either on its' own or in combination with electric fan type blowers at kick board level. Before we have the sales "presentation" stuff I thought I should check... would electric underfloor heating quickly heat the room or just effectively take the chill off the floor? Also, presumably the kickboard type heaters are just low level electric convection heaters?
The house is a fairly large Farmhouse and kitchen itself is 7m x 5m. The ceiling will be lowered but will still be 3m high.
Existing heating is a single pipe oil fired central heating system with one double radiator in the room. It is fair to say that in winter the kitchen isn't invitingly warm so part one of the "wants" for the new instalation will be for additonal heating capacity for the room when in use.
One of the designers mentioned electric underfloor heating as a solution and another mentioned it either on its' own or in combination with electric fan type blowers at kick board level. Before we have the sales "presentation" stuff I thought I should check... would electric underfloor heating quickly heat the room or just effectively take the chill off the floor? Also, presumably the kickboard type heaters are just low level electric convection heaters?
An Oasis said:
What materials are on the floor?
Does (probably not but..) the existing floor have any insulation?
At the moment it is carpet, but this is laid on top of a nice wooden floor (might be solid laminate) which looked fine but wasn't too dog-friendly. Not too sure re insulation but I would guess not.Does (probably not but..) the existing floor have any insulation?
I fitted Devimat electric underfloor under ceramic tile over a plywood subfloor.
I would say that the heat is sufficient to only require the baseboard heater on for a short time while using the kitchen, this very quickly warms up the space and the warm floor stops you feeling the chill.
Sadly I cannot give you any idea on cost to run, my mother shortly after it was installed took up glass fusing which required the use of a 5Kw kiln quite frequently so our electric bill went through the roof. I'm not sure what if any of this huge increase was due to the heating.
I would say that the heat is sufficient to only require the baseboard heater on for a short time while using the kitchen, this very quickly warms up the space and the warm floor stops you feeling the chill.
Sadly I cannot give you any idea on cost to run, my mother shortly after it was installed took up glass fusing which required the use of a 5Kw kiln quite frequently so our electric bill went through the roof. I'm not sure what if any of this huge increase was due to the heating.
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