Browse Forums Heating, Cooling & Insulation Re: Tile heating 2Jun 12, 2016 11:47 am What are you talking about exactly? Are you talking about using it for a small area, like a bathroom, or a large area, like living areas or the whole house? There are different types of underfloor heating. Electrical underfloor heating is cheaper to install, but VERY expensive to operate. So it's not recommended for large areas (some people even baulk at the cost of operating it in bathrooms). Hydronic (hot water) underfloor heating is recommended for larger areas. The installation costs are substantially, but the operating costs can be substantially lower when the water is heated by a heat pump, or gas boiler. Re: Tile heating 3Jun 12, 2016 10:42 pm We have Stiebel Eltron electric under tile matting in our ensuite and shower. I did the install (being a former electrician). It was a bit fiddly but only took a few hours. Our ensuite is quite large (about 12m2) and it does a great job of warming the room. It comes with an electronic controller that enables you to set the operation of the heating in 30 minute blocks for the whole 7 days. So if you have a shower every morning at around 7am and your husband/wife has a shower every evening at around 9pm, you could set the heating to run from 6am-7.30am and 8pm-9.30pm during the week, and then different times on the weekends. You can also set it up so that when the system is "off" it can be on ECO instead. So you could set ECO to 20 degrees and comfort to 25 degrees, so that overnight the heating would come on to keep the floor above 20 degrees, so that you don't freeze your tooties off when you get up and go to the toilet at night. You could have it connected to an off-peak tariff to reduce operating costs Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Tile heating 4Jul 01, 2016 1:14 pm 1960sModernistHome We have Stiebel Eltron electric under tile matting in our ensuite and shower. I did the install (being a former electrician). It was a bit fiddly but only took a few hours. Our ensuite is quite large (about 12m2) and it does a great job of warming the room. It comes with an electronic controller that enables you to set the operation of the heating in 30 minute blocks for the whole 7 days. So if you have a shower every morning at around 7am and your husband/wife has a shower every evening at around 9pm, you could set the heating to run from 6am-7.30am and 8pm-9.30pm during the week, and then different times on the weekends. You can also set it up so that when the system is "off" it can be on ECO instead. So you could set ECO to 20 degrees and comfort to 25 degrees, so that overnight the heating would come on to keep the floor above 20 degrees, so that you don't freeze your tooties off when you get up and go to the toilet at night. You could have it connected to an off-peak tariff to reduce operating costs Can you tell me how long it takes to heat up? 1/2 hour? Any idea of the running costs? ie 1/2 -1 hour a day in winter. I don't think we've got off peak electricity Re: Tile heating 5Jul 01, 2016 7:50 pm Yeah it takes about 15mins for the floor to warm up and then about another 15 minutes for the room air to heat up. So if you set it to turn on half an hour before you want to shower then the room is warm and toasty. Cost will vary depending on size of floor, how well insulated your bathroom is, what temperature you set the thermostat to, and what the ambient temperature is, but I'd estimate that for an average sized bathroom it would cost around 20-30 cents per hour to run. Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Tile heating 6Jul 25, 2016 9:02 pm We have the Coldbuster, now 4+ years, and wouldn't do without it. So much better than other heating system we have tried. The time does weekday and weekend programs; we have it running mainly on off-peak power weekedays, turning off at 7am, and it keeps warm to the evening, when it comes on again at 8pm. It dries the towels and bathroom really well in winter, so no damp towels without heated towel rails. Make sure you cover the whole bathroom, but areas to focus on if cost is a concern are the toilets, sinks and where you dry off after a shower. Re: Tile heating 7Aug 01, 2016 4:53 pm It's also good to do the actual shower itself (if the shower is tiled) because it dries really quickly - which means you don't get mould issues in the cooler months. Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Tile heating 8Aug 02, 2016 7:13 am I was wondering about that, I actually got a quote for the area minus the shower, will get a revised quote. BTW modernist have you time to look at my lighting plan?!! In the lighting forum .. or was my question too confused? I can reframe it! Does anyone have a suggestion for a good hydronic in slab heating speacialist who may be able to help me with an existing system and wether or not it may need a seperator… 0 4882 Looking for advice on whether this variation in tile colour is acceptable. The large tile on the left was used in my main bathroom renovation 1 year ago. My ensuite… 0 8490 Hi Kaiser85, We are building with Firstyle Homes. Our build has just started, slab pour is on Saturday (hopefully!). Their standard range is pretty good. We did our… 1 6482 |