UFH and a large(ish) area

[Terry-La-Tiler]

Hi Guys,

A friend is considering having UFH installed (by me) in a Kitchen area...

It's a small 2 bed property with the downstairs consisting of a single floor space, Front door straight into the lounge and kitchen adjoining the lounge at one end of the room. In effect, the kitchen is part of the lounge.

The house is currently heated by Economy 7 storage heaters, they are ugly to say the least. The kitchen area is approximately 10 M2 and the adjoining lounge roughly 17 M2. The lounge is currently carpeted and the Kitchen has soft flooring.

My friend is considering having UFH installed in the kitchen area and is wondering whether the heat generated from this area would be sufficient to heat the both the lounge and the kitchen which would enable her to remove the storage heaters.

Personally I have no idea of the efficiency of UFH or whether the heat that it generates would circulate and heat an adjacent area.

Your help would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.
T.

 

[faithhealer]

Hi Guys,

A friend is considering having UFH installed (by me) in a Kitchen area...

It's a small 2 bed property with the downstairs consisting of a single floor space, Front door straight into the lounge and kitchen adjoining the lounge at one end of the room. In effect, the kitchen is part of the lounge.

The house is currently heated by Economy 7 storage heaters, they are ugly to say the least. The kitchen area is approximately 10 M2 and the adjoining lounge roughly 17 M2. The lounge is currently carpeted and the Kitchen has soft flooring.

My friend is considering having UFH installed in the kitchen area and is wondering whether the heat generated from this area would be sufficient to heat the both the lounge and the kitchen which would enable her to remove the storage heaters.

Personally I have no idea of the efficiency of UFH or whether the heat that it generates would circulate and heat an adjacent area.

Your help would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.
T.

See my other thread, Aaron at Uheat is your man

 

[Terry-La-Tiler]

Aaron. You able to answer this one?
I should add, I'll be doing the job myself because I need the work and the experience. Some advice would be appreciated though.
Cheers.

 

[Uheat]

Hi Guys,

A friend is considering having UFH installed (by me) in a Kitchen area...

It's a small 2 bed property with the downstairs consisting of a single floor space, Front door straight into the lounge and kitchen adjoining the lounge at one end of the room. In effect, the kitchen is part of the lounge.

The house is currently heated by Economy 7 storage heaters, they are ugly to say the least. The kitchen area is approximately 10 M2 and the adjoining lounge roughly 17 M2. The lounge is currently carpeted and the Kitchen has soft flooring.

My friend is considering having UFH installed in the kitchen area and is wondering whether the heat generated from this area would be sufficient to heat the both the lounge and the kitchen which would enable her to remove the storage heaters.

Personally I have no idea of the efficiency of UFH or whether the heat that it generates would circulate and heat an adjacent area.

Your help would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.
T.

Hi Terry,

I doubt very much that heating just the kitchen area would supply enough power to heat the whole area. you would be heating less than half of the total floor space. I would expect this even if you went for the 200w/m2 mats. Even if there was enough power the heat would not be even in the room as all the heating would be at one end.

With ufh the floor becomes your radiator, so rather than a small area being heated on the wall you heat the whole floor and this can then be run at a much lower temp.

If you friend is considering ufh for primary heating you need to heat as much of the floor as possible. If you have a look at our website www.uheat.co.uk we can provide you/your friend with an ufh product for pretty much any type of floor covering.

For Tiles - loose cable or Cable Mat
For Laminate / Engineered wood - Woodtec Mats
For carpet - Woodtec mats with Floor Tec overboards
For Vinyl - Woodtec mats with floor tec overboards.
For Solid Woods - :yikes:

I would be more than happy to talk through things over the phone with yourself or your friend and work out all the options for you.

Hope this helps.