New Bathroom - ideas help

[bacon_sandwich]

Hi guys, I am treating mini bacon sandwich (daughter) to a new bathroom (shower room really) in our house. I work with a bathroom fitter so he is going to do all the art work etc but I have a question over heating of the room. Currently its a radiator on microbore and I recon I can get to the manifiolds. The shower room will be tiled on the floor and am considering underfloor heating. Current heating is a gas boiler. Should I - a) Just replace the radiator for a nicer one, b) get a plumber to install wet underfloor heating, C. get the bathroom fitter / me to install electric underfloor heating, D none of the above. I guess I am asking what would you do in your own home. Thx B_S

 

[cr0ft]

Ask my wife what I would do in our home. The last thing I want to do when I get home is do any work in our bathrooms!

Electric UFH is probably the simplest option for UFH if the house is already built 🙂 Very cheap to install and doesn't raise the floor at all really. The more expensive price of electric isn't worth fussing about when you consider how long it would be on each day imo.

You will still need another heat source with electric UFH though. Probably a plumbed towel rail?

 

[Dotty]

Mini bacon sandwich! Love it!

 

[Meady]

No need for aditional heating with electric UFH, my parents have it in their kitchen and it heats the hole room really well.

 

[bacon_sandwich]

Didn't think about floor level. Its ground floor, concrete base, polystyrene insulation, then chipboard. If I take up the floor back to concrete I should have 40mm to play with less thickness of tiles. Sounds daft but being from electrical background bit nervous about electric UFH as I do get called out to them when they fail and its pretty dire to fix. Liked the idea of simple pipes under the floor but am not a plumber so no real experience of how they work compared to electric. Things like do they heat up as fast etc as the zone its on is the whole ground floor. cheers B_S

 

[SimonG]

Electric ufh is expensive to run. Yes it will heat the room, but will still need a secondary heat source for all those damp towels. So towel rail or bring up a section of electric ufh up the wall with a chrome rail above.

 

[Radioman]

I used to fit EUFH to most bathrooms for years. Thermastore was my favoured brand. Done properly with the correct insulation, latex, double buttered tile, stat and controller they worked ok but as said earlier very inefficient to run as most custards could not get their wee heads around the correct running procedure. To give a good heat they have to be left ticking over and temp controlled by a thermostat boosting output at busy times. Otherwise they are always working flat out and then very expensive to run unless you are on solar Pv. I don't agree they are cheap to install either. Check the parts list. Insulation fixings the control the thermo the latex etc etc.
we stopped fitting them after a particular instal failed and we found the manufacturers guarantee was rubbish. We ended up tearing out the whole bathroom and replacing free of charge. Never fitted another. In my own home I just fit rads