IMM wrote:

"g" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have always been an avid supporter of underfloor heating -- I don't
know anyone personally to have any complaints about them. However in
telling people here in Ireland that we installed it in a stone house
we are renovating, almost everybody is "appalled" and skeptical. They
tell us stories of people who have them installed and get them ripped
out soon afterwards because of the gas guzzling/high heating costs. I
can only think that in these bad experiences, the insulation under the
floor and on the walls is improperly done, but they insist that this
possibility is unlikely and that underfloor heating is an inherently
disastrous heating method. But I don't see how something that is so
successful and common elsewhere remains so successful if that is the
case. I'm tired of defending the choice we made with the heating :-(

Anybody have ideas on the possible sources of bad experiences/high
running costs with underfloor heating?


In this months Selfbuild and Design mag there is an article on heating
systems by an eco expert. Underfloor heating was ruled out in poorly
insulted houses (which may be the case in Ireland)


On the contrary, people have been insulting the Irish and their houses
for decades.

You must try harder to get your facts right. gamma minus.


(usual ill informed drivel deleted)