Underfloor heating Yes or No?

I am now at the point where I will pay the €8,400 for the ground floor and will leave the radiators in the 1st floor and the attic anyway. Otherwise, I will probably regret it later.

Hello, sorry, I find this option more than nonsensical. If you combine underfloor heating with "normal" radiators, you need two different flow temperatures (lower temperature in the underfloor heating, higher temperature at the radiators). If you don’t do this, your radiators will not get warm enough to reach the desired room temperature. If you don’t want that, you need radiators with a larger surface area so that, even with the lower flow temperature, sufficient heating output is still achieved. It should be clear that these radiators will cost several euros more again. My tip: either underfloor heating everywhere or radiators everywhere. Regards, Dirk

It would be worth the money to me. I would never want to miss underfloor heating again. No problems placing furniture, the room is evenly warm, and you don't constantly feel a draft when the heating is on. In front of the radiator, it is toasty warm, you sweat, and 5 meters away it is no longer that warm - those are my experiences with normal radiators. Although it would be worth the money to me, I would still inquire more closely whether these costs are justified, there might still be some room for negotiation.

Who or what is Konvent?

If this is allowed in the forum, I would be happy to post the builder here, but this will only be known to people from my catchment area.

I repeat, the location is personally the most important thing to me, and there are reasons for that, personal and family-related, and I have also treated myself to all the extras that I would have gotten in any other house. I could have bought a house that is just as expensive in an expensive location, but I want to have a house exactly where the house is now being built.

I have looked at many houses recently, old and new, and really very few had underfloor heating. In the house where I live now, built around 1978, there is underfloor heating on the ground floor, but no underfloor heating on the upper floor.

A mix of underfloor heating is not more expensive, I have inquired with my builder and am happy to repeat myself. (Or is the maintenance meant to be more expensive)

1. NO underfloor heating 0€ extra charge (sounds logical, only other or additional radiators cost more, also logical)

2. Ground floor underfloor heating and all other rooms and floors radiators cost 8,400€ (The two mixing circuits make sense, it is also like that in the house where I live now.)

3. Ground floor underfloor heating 8,400€ + 1st floor underfloor heating 1,000€ + attic underfloor heating 1,000€ + basement underfloor heating 2,000€ (the basement is apparently more work, hence the higher price)

So that would be the 8,400€ surcharge when mixing heating types to 12,400€ if there really were underfloor heating everywhere.

Normal radiators are definitely enough for the basement for me, I know no one who has underfloor heating in the basement and on the first floor the heating is hardly ever turned on anyway, since there are only bedrooms and a walk-in closet, and I have an open gallery from the ground floor to the first floor and the heat will surely rise well there. To be honest, I have no use for the attic yet, it could, for example, become a children's room.

Quite honestly, if you are convinced of the advantages of underfloor heating, install it everywhere. The 4,000.00 euro surcharge is not really that much in relation to the total costs. I would definitely regret it at some point if I didn't do it now. In our house, we have also equipped the rooms used for living purposes in the basement (guest room and office) with underfloor heating, just like the rest of the house. Ultimately, however, it is of course your decision.

We also have underfloor heating in the basement. And for children's rooms, where the kids also sit on the floor a lot, underfloor heating is simply more comfortable. In the basement it will certainly be more expensive, as the floor must be insulated even more for underfloor heating than on the ground floor and upper floor.

By the €4,000, they mean the difference between €8,400 just for the ground floor and €12,400 for everything, right? I have to admit, I don’t find the difference that bad either, although I will definitely leave out the basement. The laundry room and storage room don’t need underfloor heating.

If I decide on the underfloor heating, I will definitely pay the €2,000 surcharge for the first and top floors.

My tendency has also strongly leaned towards underfloor heating, especially because it’s not something that can just be retrofitted like a garage or tiles. The additional €10,400 does annoy me in the sense that I can’t understand the price, but that’s just how it is. In return, I will do a lot myself in the bathroom and come up with something for the flooring.