Hi all, I am in the process of doing up our newly bought house. At the
moment I have removed all the old carpets and nails and we are now going to
decide on the heating system.

The whole house and hallways and stairs are floorboards...some very old and
some very recent.

We had hoped to keep the floorboards just as they are with some staining and
finally a good sanding down. Its an old house from 1873.

Is there a suitable electric underfloor heating system designed to be fitted
under neath existing floorboards?  This would of course involve some joist
channelling on my part but as the house is empty at the moment....that does
not pose a problem. I am more than capable of lifting all the floorboards
myself.

Most of the systems I have seen are for either mats, or for laminated
floors, or for tiled floors.

Regards Alan

"Alan"  wrote in message 
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> Hi all, I am in the process of doing up our newly bought house. At the
> moment I have removed all the old carpets and nails and we are now going 
> to
> decide on the heating system.
>
> The whole house and hallways and stairs are floorboards...some very old 
> and
> some very recent.
>
> We had hoped to keep the floorboards just as they are with some staining 
> and
> finally a good sanding down. Its an old house from 1873.
>
> Is there a suitable electric underfloor heating system designed to be 
> fitted
> under neath existing floorboards?  This would of course involve some joist
> channelling on my part but as the house is empty at the moment....that 
> does
> not pose a problem. I am more than capable of lifting all the floorboards
> myself.
>
> Most of the systems I have seen are for either mats, or for laminated
> floors, or for tiled floors.
>
> Regards Alan
>
>Hi Alan,

I looked into underfloor heating quite a bit before installing my own, and 
the general consensus was that electric is okay for consevatories or small 
extensions, but would be far too expensive to run for a whole house.  I used 
a water system from an oil fired boiler for all 3 floors of my house, and to 
be honest i'm not too sure about it.  When you get the temperature right its 
fantastic, a much better kind of heat than radiators somehow, but you have 
to pre-think when you want the heat on and off by about 3 hours, and if its 
too warm theres not much you can do about it apart from open the windows.
Cheers,
Stuart