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Hi all,
I have a dilema that I'd like some advice on please as I'm sitting on the fence over which route to take.
We're renovating a 5 story town house, bathrooms in the basement, 2nd and 3rd floor, all will have underfloor heating and heated towel rails.
The bathrooms are fairly small 3-5 m2
My theory is that I'm having to route the water heating system to each floor for radiators and towel rails, so logic would say use a wet underfloor system using a Danfoss FHV-R Regulating Valve to aleviate the requirement of having a manifold and pump which one plumber we've had quote agrees with. The other plumber we've had in says go with electric underfloor heating and have the towel rails on their own zone so as you have have them working in the summer without having the rest of the house heated.
I guess there is a 3rd option of combining the two above so as I have wet underfloor heating and a seperate zone for the radiators.
And I guess ther is a 4th option which would add zone valves to each floor for radiators and the towel rails wouldn't need their own pipes/zone as in the summer all zone valves would be turned off allowing only towel rails to be heated. Then I have to way up the cost implication; copper pipe and one zone vs 5 zone valves and a 5 zone programmer.
Any advice would be much apprecited
Cheers,
Philip
I have a dilema that I'd like some advice on please as I'm sitting on the fence over which route to take.
We're renovating a 5 story town house, bathrooms in the basement, 2nd and 3rd floor, all will have underfloor heating and heated towel rails.
The bathrooms are fairly small 3-5 m2
My theory is that I'm having to route the water heating system to each floor for radiators and towel rails, so logic would say use a wet underfloor system using a Danfoss FHV-R Regulating Valve to aleviate the requirement of having a manifold and pump which one plumber we've had quote agrees with. The other plumber we've had in says go with electric underfloor heating and have the towel rails on their own zone so as you have have them working in the summer without having the rest of the house heated.
I guess there is a 3rd option of combining the two above so as I have wet underfloor heating and a seperate zone for the radiators.
And I guess ther is a 4th option which would add zone valves to each floor for radiators and the towel rails wouldn't need their own pipes/zone as in the summer all zone valves would be turned off allowing only towel rails to be heated. Then I have to way up the cost implication; copper pipe and one zone vs 5 zone valves and a 5 zone programmer.
Any advice would be much apprecited
Cheers,
Philip
