Ceiling heating, wall heating, or underfloor heating?

Hello construction expert, please don’t misunderstand, I expressed myself a bit awkwardly. The underfloor heating in the bedroom is only turned on in extreme winter but then runs over a longer period, so not just on in the morning and off again in the evening. It then runs for days or weeks, but only lightly. We like to sleep cool. ma

Hello,

please don’t misunderstand, I expressed myself a bit awkwardly. The underfloor heating in the bedroom is only turned on in extreme winter but then runs for a longer period, so not just on in the morning and off again in the evening. It then runs for days or weeks, but only lightly. We like to sleep cool.

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Cool and cold are two different things. As I understand it, you turn on the underfloor heating quite late. That means a cold bridge forms to the surrounding rooms, which is compensated by the radiators there.

You have to imagine the efficiency of a heating system like a boiling pot of water. If you want to keep the water temperature constant and thus cost-efficient, you first bring the pot of water to a boil and then set the regulator so that the water simmers lightly. If you let the water cool down every time, you would need a lot more energy to bring it back to a boil. It’s similar with rooms to be heated, and that’s why a temperature once set (per room and according to personal needs) should not be changed anymore, as the energy demand required then is disproportionately higher.

Many years ago, when we first moved in and with a neighbor above us, we moved into a single-family house. As usual, we lived in the single-family house dry for the first two years and consumed quite a bit of gas. The following year, I happened to talk to a heating expert about heating costs when first moving in. He gave me the good advice to turn off the night setback and run the system all year round; I would be surprised. I took his advice, coordinated with the landlord and neighbor, and was able to carry out the experiment in the end. I was really surprised because we saved quite a bit of gas and thus generated a high refund. Since then, I have never done it differently; I’m not unhappy about my money either ... and because the heating is not turned off, it reacts quickly to every external temperature drop and keeps the house constantly at the once set temperature.

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I can confirm the (Bauexperte). In our entire house (Fußbodenheizung) all heating circuits are open, no individual room control, everything hydraulically balanced, temperature controlled on the return flow based on the AT - and done. The same temperature throughout the whole house during the entire heating season, day and night (except in the bedroom - here the heating circuit was slightly throttled).

...Underfloor heating is still very sluggish even today. ...

But that's intentional and not bad at all. Nowadays, you don't set it from 15 to 24 degrees, but keep a comfortable temperature of 18 - 22 degrees (+2 degrees for us women), just as you like it
That uses less energy than this up and down, and you come home after work to a cozy place before you have to wait "a quarter of an hour to warm up," which you then have to turn down again.
In our 35-year-old house, we had underfloor heating with tiles and carpet, and now we have the same. Two days ago, I nudged the heating by setting it to 21 degrees so I don’t have to walk on cold tiles

I can’t imagine heating at head height; I don’t even like that in a car.

I would not want to miss my underfloor heating in the new building without a basement. However, the thermostat has been taped over for more than a year so that the children cannot change the temperature. It's fine that way.

Hello,

The temperature controller has been taped over for more than a year so that the children cannot adjust the temperature.

Most controllers have a small pin that prevents adjustment. When our children were little, we broke this off and our little ones could turn it until the end of time.

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