Non heated areas.

[Russell griffiths]

So in my mind I think I’ve got this sorted but after some far more educated opinions. 

 

So due to our planning officer ?

can you tell I like him. We are redesigning and going to end up single story. Ie a bungalow, so 3 bedrooms downstairs, 

so do I put underfloor heating in the 3 bedrooms and look for a low tog carpet 

or no ufh in the bedrooms and put in a different type of heat, rad, electric radiator, 

i am concerned if I don’t put it in I will have a floor slab with large unheated areas which will lead to cold spots dragging heat from the heated areas 

I will also have an ensuite in each bedroom so will have to get the pipe work in there which means crossing the bedroom floors if I want to avoid going under internal walls. 

Cheers russ. 

[IanR]

All our habitable area is on the ground floor, and have put UFH throughout, except for Larder. - And we went with low-tog underlay and carpet in bedrooms.

 

Also think about how you're going to do your shower floors in the slab. We went with forming the slope in the slab (post main pour) and tiling directly over the slab. 

Edited December 4, 2017 by IanR

[ProDave]

Our old house has UFH upstairs and ordinary carpets (i.e not especially low tog) and the bedrooms warm up okay. It takes a little longer than downstairs that has wood or tiled floors.

[joe90]

Sorry but going back to planning, our officer wanted bungalow and would not budge, I know it took a long time but I appealed to the Secretary of States office and won hands down, in fact the council was told they were not abiding by their own policies ?. I don’t know your circumstances.

[Temp]

 

2 hours ago, Russell griffiths said:

so do I put underfloor heating in the 3 bedrooms and look for a low tog carpet 

or no ufh in the bedrooms and put in a different type of heat, rad, electric radiator, 

 

If it's wet UFH then definitely install that in the bedrooms as well. I would (I did) put each bedroom on it's own floor loop and programmable stat. That way each can be independently controlled allowing guest rooms to be cooler or even off when unoccupied.  If nothing else when you come to sell it will be easier if you can claim full central heating. 

 

You can get special low TOG underlay for use with UFH. Hessian backed carpet also has a lower TOG than rubber backed. Watch out for small print that allows a shop to supply either version of the same carpet. 

 

Edited December 4, 2017 by Temp

[Russell griffiths]

Tbh regarding the planning I like the single story concept,

what I don’t get is why you can’t get a straight one to one man to man answer out of the ?

btw our last 3 houses have all been single storey. 

[Stones]

1 hour ago, Temp said:

 

 

If it's wet UFH then definitely install that in the bedrooms as well. I would (I did) put each bedroom on it's own floor loop and programmable stat. That way each can be independently controlled allowing guest rooms to be cooler or even off when unoccupied.  If nothing else when you come to sell it will be easier if you can claim full central heating. 

 

 

+1  This is what we have done and works really well.  We have engineered oak in the bedrooms.

[Ferdinand]

+1 to all bedrooms.

 

Different systems are not worth the complexity. I made that mistake in a bungalow in 2010 to "save" money. 

 

Only do not install in the bedrooms if the alternative is nothing.

 

Ferdinand

 

[Russell griffiths]

Ok that’s sorted then all over it is. 

Cheers.