Underfloor heating – Pros and Cons

Thinking about a new heating system for your home? An underfloor heating installation might be just what you need. Such an installation is usually a serious investment, so if you’re thinking about going that way there are several things that need to be considered such as: how will the heating affect your home, is it really needed and how will your energy bills be affected by the superior installation.

Here are some of our advice and suggestions by our professional builders that you may find useful. We have taken the info from a huge review of members with underfloor heating to find out what their experiences are of getting and using underfloor heating, below you will find the pros and cons that they stated and that will hopefully help you with the decision of whether to go for it or to skip it.

Underfloor heating: the pros

The comfort, probably the biggest pro of them all. Everywhere is warm, the floor feels lovely and you can walk bare foot entire winter. Stepping out of the shower to a warm floor is a sensational feeling.

Distributes the heat evenly from the floor to the walls and creates a warmer sensation in the entire room. Eliminates the need of radiators which will give you a more beautiful and spacious room.

It is a flexible heating option that can be fitted in a new room or a per existing room, but there will be a lot more upheaval if it is retrofitted.

Underfloor heating: the cons

Underfloor heating is a high-end luxury product, rather than home heating essential

Underfloor heating can take longer to heat up than radiators, which work quickly to high temperatures.

In some cases, such as with smaller systems, they won't be able to totally supplement radiators.

An underfloor heating system can be pricey to install (especially if retrofitted) maintain and run, particularly if it's supplementary to your main heating system.

At the end it all comes to that comfort that you're willing to invest a bit more at the beginning and regain your investment in the future.