Underfloor Heating

[Anonymous]

Anyone do this? Any pros and cons? What is the cost. I'd only be putting in about 500 sq. feet.

[Anonymous]

If you're putting a new floor down, it's wonderful in bathrooms and nice in kitchens. I haven't used it anywhere else, but I imagine I'd love it in a finished basement.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think it’s that expensive to add to a project, maybe $2000-$3000 or so assuming they can access the power source. We chose not to heat our bathroom floor because we just never thought it was especially cold in there.

[Anonymous]

I'm putting down a new floor anyway so I figured why not add it. Water or electric?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're putting a new floor down, it's wonderful in bathrooms and nice in kitchens. I haven't used it anywhere else, but I imagine I'd love it in a finished basement.

+1 I've got it in my bathroom and LOVE it!

[Anonymous]

Can it be placed on top of a concrete slab under tile?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're putting a new floor down, it's wonderful in bathrooms and nice in kitchens. I haven't used it anywhere else, but I imagine I'd love it in a finished basement.

+1 I've got it in my bathroom and LOVE it!

+1, added to all our bathrooms during reno and 100% worth it. Minimal
addl cost when you’re putting in new flooring anyway. Any houseguests we have rave about it too. Especially worth it under any tile flooring.

[Anonymous]

We have it in our mudroom and bathrooms and love it. We actually lay wet raincoats, gloves, etc on the mudroom floor and they dry super quickly.

[Anonymous]

Would it be too much to have throughout a main living space? I see lots of talk about it in mud rooms or bathrooms but what about an entire floor?

[Anonymous]

What about in a three season room?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would it be too much to have throughout a main living space? I see lots of talk about it in mud rooms or bathrooms but what about an entire floor?

We have it throughout our entire finished basement and we love it. Just be sure to have zones with independent temperature controllers if it’s a large or multi-room space.

[Anonymous]

Back in the 1950s there was a whole neighborhood in Cleveland where that was how the houses were heated - no ductwork, no radiators. These were hot water systems that basically used an oversized gas water heater.

It's really nice, even heat and very quiet. I would think electric resistance heating would be easier to install but more expensive to operate. I know some folks who put in electrically heated floors in the bathrooms, which can heat up pretty quickly.

[Anonymous]

I always am concerned with a malfunction. Do you have to rip up the floor if there is a problem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always am concerned with a malfunction. Do you have to rip up the floor if there is a problem?

For my install (electric under tile), we followed the manufacturer's recommendation to have two temperature sensors embedded in case one goes wrong. 10 years later (and thankfully) haven't had any issues.

It's a static system so less likely to develop problems than something with moving parts. But if something went wrong with the heating element then it would just be a regular floor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can it be placed on top of a concrete slab under tile?

I'm planning to put in subfloor heating in my basement, but I'm putting down insulating foam board and plywood on the slab and then heating / tile on top of that so that we're not trying to heat the whole slab.