Underfloor Heating vs Radiators Video Advice

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Are you looking to install underfloor heating in your new home?

Michael Holmes, Editor - in - Chief of Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine and presenter on Channel 5's I Own Britain's Best Home gives his expert opinion.

Transcript

If youre working on a budget you should probably go for straight forward pressed steel panel radiators, but if youre creating a long-term individual home that youre going to be staying in then the benefits of under floor heating, I believe, are quite hard to beat.

First of all, its so unobtrusive, you cannot see the source of heating, so you dont have any problem arranging your furniture, you dont have to work around radiators. It is also incredibly comfortable, especially if youre going to have hard flooring like stone, or tiles or wood. Having that chill taken off the floor, especially in the morning or in a bathroom is something that you will not want to go back to once youve experienced it.

Its also energy efficient, now the debate is out as to whether it truly is energy efficient because controllability is an issue with under floor heating.

Its not quite as straight forward as a radiator where you turn it on and a few minutes later the room is warm. Under floor takes at least an hour, sometimes longer for the room to heat up, so you do need good controls.

Once youve got the good controls though and you overcome those time lags, I think its the best form of heating you can have.

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