Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry Re: Bathroom heating options? IXL Tastic the only option? 4Jul 11, 2012 4:49 pm I've found these 3 in 1 units a waste of time. Heated towel rails actually help keep the room warm as well as giving you warm towels. If they are electric just put them on a time switch to come on 30 mins before you get up. The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Bathroom heating options? IXL Tastic the only option? 5Jul 11, 2012 5:15 pm If you are retiling the floor, underfloor heating is the go. It only costs around $700 if you do it when retiling and in my view is the safest and most satisfying form of bathroom heating. On the other hand if you're not planning on taking up the old tiles the costs will be prohibitive. Re: Bathroom heating options? IXL Tastic the only option? 6Jul 11, 2012 5:17 pm offshore If you are retiling the floor, underfloor heating is the go. It only costs around $700 if you do it when retiling and in my view is the safest and most satisfying form of bathroom heating. On the other hand if you're not planning on taking up the old tiles the costs will be prohibitive. Wow! You can do that? I'm very interested. Can you give me a brand or name of this type of heating? Bathroom heating options? IXL Tastic the only option? 7Jul 11, 2012 5:39 pm Not sure of brand off the top of my head. Your sparky will know. We just had three put in during a full house renovation, and they come with a little LCD wall control pad so you can set them to come on at the right time of day. The other advantage of this type of heating is that the floor dries really quickly. Definitely a no brainer if you were already planning to redo the floor. Re: Bathroom heating options? IXL Tastic the only option? 8Jul 11, 2012 6:27 pm offshore come on at the right time of day. Looks like it's definitely not for short term "exit shower and preen" sessions. Cool idea though - I never knew this existed. Cheers Offshore, HC Re: Bathroom heating options? IXL Tastic the only option? 9Jul 11, 2012 10:30 pm We have the Cold Buster system under our tiles; comes on at 25C at off peak, then turns off during the day. In the evening, turn on to 20C during the shoulder rate. Keeps the en suite dry and toasty in cold morning, and dries the towels too (we have it running under the towel rails). Seems to keep the whole en suite warm, but it isn't very big, only 4.5m x 3m. Bathroom heating options? IXL Tastic the only option? 10Jul 12, 2012 8:26 am "only" 4.5 x 3m? That's a decent size for an ensuite, bigger than the average bedroom! But yeah we run ours on a similar cycle and it warms the whole bathroom, and the heat source is down low where you need it. After all it's the only room in the house where you are normally barefoot in winter! Re: Bathroom heating options? IXL Tastic the only option? 11Jul 12, 2012 10:20 am So many options, the 'ixl' is a infra red heater and heats what's in front of it, it won't heat a room, you can get fixed bar type heaters, you can get electric heaters that look like air conditioners (I wouldn't put a air con in though, would be fine in heating, but cooling there would be to much moisture in the air and it would probably leak!) You can also get wall mounted panel convection heaters, ducted heating, hydronic heating (more a whole house thing, boiler, hot water radiators etc) and of course the many kinds of underfloor/slab heating, the simplest is an electric blanket installed under the tiles! I suppose if you made the bathroom huge, you could put in a log fire! Or maybe a gas space heater like a rinnai, but they are meant for much larger spaces! 2 Newbie question for flooring options. We are thinking of changing the flooring for bedrooms and passage area. Last time we looked at flooring options was almost 8years… 0 3853 Would also like an opinion from anyone that has used xcem over hebel for floors. Thanks 1 15243 Hi there, I'm a conplete newbie to this, but I'm looking to put a floor down in my 6x9m shed. It's currently sitting on a 100mm thick concrete perimeter (dirt floor… 0 6928 |