Underfloor heating on the upper floor or "normal" radiators?

Hello community,
we are currently planning our house and are somewhat undecided about the heating. We are planning a gas heating system and would like to have "normal" radiators on the upper floor, as we only heat our bedroom when it is really very cold. However, underfloor heating is too slow for that. It would be the same in the two children's rooms.

We know that no one can take this decision away from us, as everyone has their own opinion. But it would be nice if you could share your opinion with us... Does it still make sense to use normal radiators nowadays?

Many thanks
hermo

We also only have "normal" radiators upstairs for the same reason, except for the bathroom. There we have a combination of underfloor heating and a large towel radiator. By the way, this was a suggestion from the seller; originally, we wanted underfloor heating everywhere upstairs.

Well, what do you mean by sluggish, not really more sluggish than night storage heaters, and if you come home in the afternoon or evening and notice it's cold outside, you turn on the heating, a modern house shouldn't cool down that quickly anyway. (naturally, you don't have a house provider supplying you with ridiculous wall construction and only barely meeting the Energy Saving Ordinance 2009 through tricks)

Anyway, with a single-family house, you will save at most a low four-figure sum if you rely on radiators on the ground floor.

But with underfloor heating you would have these advantages:
- better indoor climate (my opinion)
- lower heating costs
- the possibility to heat later with a heat pump if gas might become unaffordable in 10-15 years, if once again some monarchic ruler goes crazy somewhere!

Hello poison mixer,
thank you very much for your answer. We want to do it the same way.
I have one more question. Do you have a second heating circuit for the radiators?
Regards hermo

Good question

Technically, I haven’t looked into it in detail. I only know that the radiators are low-temperature radiators. Since we have not moved in yet and the system is still being installed, I’m currently at a loss, but I seem to remember that everything runs with the same flow temperature.

Regards
Andreas

Hello!

So, we faced exactly the same problems – and decided against underfloor heating.

You can’t really generalize the matter. With tiled floors in the living room, underfloor heating is certainly quite nice. With floating parquet, it’s rather counterproductive. Gluing down parquet is again something for a professional – and not everyone wants 50 kg (!) of glue in the living space.

With the split (ground floor: underfloor heating, upper floor: radiators), you either need separate controls (which costs money again) or huge radiators to eventually switch to geothermal energy.

The insulation of new houses can’t compensate for the inertia of underfloor heating – unless you keep the windows in the bedrooms closed and we don’t want to extend the topic to controlled residential ventilation with heat recovery, do we?

Conclusion: Underfloor heating, geothermal energy, and ventilation are ideal – if you have a lot of money.

For us, there was only enough for gas, a wood stove, and radiators – if you let your wife pick the latter (company Vasco) you’ll still get rid of your money.

Regards, TomTom1.

Just keep in mind that with underfloor heating, a possible switch to a heat pump later on is easy (lower flow temperature).