Prashanth

We are interested in porcelain tiles for our ground floor flooring. Because it’s generally cold hence we wanted to go for UFH.

I have been researching on this UFH since last few months. Although I’m bit tight with the money I thought it’s one time investment to have that extra comfort with UFH. now looking at your views I’m halfway thinking of dropping the plan of having UFH. It’s was gonna cost me £6500 including the material from Wunda and installation. it will be slightly cheaper if I go with electric UFH and I don’t have to rip any skirting board off. now I need to sit down and do the cost of establishing electric UFH. Please suggest your opinion on electric UFH. Also, I have plan on setting the solar panels in future. Also to answer your questions, the builder is establishing 3 heat zones with 3 thermostats. 1 for the master bedroom, 1 for the other 3 bedrooms and 1 for the entire ground floor. if I’d decide to go with wet UFH I would assume the plumbing engineer would disconnect supply to entire ground floor radiators and connect this ground floor zone to the manifold for UFH. @JohnMo unfortunately I don’t know which plan it is (x,Y, S or W). I’m sure it is a heat only boiler. Make is IDEAL 18 kw. they are providing a hot water tank in the airing cupboard. Also I didn’t know there will be something like low temp radiators. Thought it is a standard radiator.

Sorry 22-23degrees. It’s a typo

Thank you for the reply John. There is no additional insulation apart from the standard concrete base a builder will provide. I thought with new building regulations there is minimal heat loss because of the thick concrete foundations they provide. Yes, the quote from Wunda is for 20 mm rapid response main board. i agree all the flooring comes up by at least 20mm (uFH) + 10mm (porcelain tiles). Also I understand skirting needs to be removed and doors needs trimming and I will implement my bit of my DIY skills. The reason why I want to go UFH is, I currently live in a small house and because of the old parents I have to keep the room temp to 22 - 23 degrees c. Considering the new home is big that I’m moving to and to keep the entire house to 22 - 23 degrees C is going to be more expensive. Thought if I have Wet UFH I can control the temperatures in rooms and leave 17-18 degrees C on unused rooms. I thought of going for electric UFH, but thought wet UFH is more cost efficient over electric. Also I’m not sure if I can have wet UFH in addition to the radiator heating. Something like keep the radiator heating active, so that I can switch to UFH or radiator heating. Is it something possible, if yes is it a huge additional work from plumbing side? also for Wunda UFH they are going to provide perimeter strip for this I need to remove the skirting board and stick this perimeter strip along the boarders. Can anyone suggest is it mandatory or can I skip this and just lay the heat boards aligning to the skirting board?

Hi All, new to this forum. I see many experts here provide lot of advice on UFH. I’m buying a new property and as many advice ufh is the best thing and worth to establish on new built properties or if someone doing a house refurbishment as cost of heating will be less off course there will be a breakeven in cost after few years counting the cost of establishing it over cost of running on already established radiators. I have been provided with the below zone layout from Wunda and to hide everything out I thought best place is to establish the manifold under the stairs. Any comments on this please? just give you additional info, the boiler is located at the top right corner of the provided map downstairs and the hot water tank is placed in the airing cupboard upstairs (CYL). Any suggestions if it is still practical enough to establish the manifold under the stairs? Or do I need to put this in the kitchen at bottom left of the blue zoned area (loop 1-6) where the pipes can go straight just in front of the airing cupboard? also any professionals here who could take this job in Gloucestershire for establishing system for me including laying the insulation boards? 31651_Prashanth Kanatala_250214_Wunda.pdf