The comfort of underfloor heating in winter
Underfloor heating is a great home heating choice to efficiently manage energy usage and enjoy a better standard of overall comfort.
Hydroheat offers water-based underfloor heating systems, which are perfect if you’re looking for an effective and energy-efficient way to keep your home comfortably warm and cosy.
Weather the winter chill
Winters have become a bit unpredictable, with longer extreme cold snaps and days with unseasonable rain pouring down. You might be tempted to turn the heat up high. With underfloor heating that’s not necessary.
Underfloor heating is installed beneath your carpets, tiles or laminate floors and evenly distributes heat through your home from the floor up and is a really smart choice. It has several benefits:
- You can save on electricity bills
- It heats a home more effectively than freestanding heaters
- It is invisible, which makes it aesthetically appealing
- It’s low maintenance
On or off?
When it gets really cold it’s best to keep your underfloor heating on at all times, because it can take a few hours to warm the house up. Keep it on low, rather than switching it off completely. If you are leaving the house for longer periods you might not want to do that. If you’re just doing a quick grocery run, coming home to a comfortably warm house will immediately uplift your mood.
The underfloor heating system will consume more electricity when it’s turned up, so be smart about whether that’s necessary. If your system is running on low rather than completely switched off you’ll be able to raise the temperature much more quickly. And of course, try to restrict your use to the rooms you’re in the most and ensure that the rest of your home’s insulation is in top condition.
If it’s possible to connect your thermostat to smart home automation, you can control it from your phone, turning it off when you leave home, and switching it back on when you leave your office or the mall. It will also be helpful to schedule the temperature according to your requirements to do this automatically – in case you’re so eager to get home at the end of the day at the office where the air conditioner war raged for nine hours that you forget to turn it on. That way, if your home “knows” you’ll be home at 18:00 it will make sure it’s nice and toasty as soon as you step inside.
What about heaters?
Conventional heaters warm the air in the room, the people. This results in air circulation where warm air rises and cold air floats down to the floor. This can dry your skin and result in cold feet. Turning the heater up only increases the negative effects, not only on your body but also your electricity bill.
Interestingly, 1kW of electric floor heating will be more efficient and cheaper to run than a 1 kW conventional heater because of the even spread of radiant heat over the floor surface.
Staying warm
Hydroheat offers specialised underfloor heating solutions. If you’d like to find out more about how you can stay warm this winter, get in touch with us today.