we've always had underfloor heating in the bathrooms but it's only worthwhile if you have extended periods of cold weather as the floors take too long to heat up if you just want to heat the bathroom for a quick shower and the standard overhead combined heater, light and exhaust is much better most of the time ...we have Coldbuster undercarpet heaters in the study, wiw and down the bedroom hallways which we occasionally use
the whole house underfloor heating with timer was excellent when we had a house full but was quite expensive to fuel although some of the in slab pipes heated with a hot water boiler can be more economical
As oklouise says electric underfloor heating is very expensive to operate. Like all other electric heat sources, you get 1kW of heat for every 1kW of electricity you use - the exception being reverse cycle AC, which produces 4 to 5kW of heat for each kW of electricity used!
While hydronic underfloor is cheaper to operate (depending on the heat source) but very expensive to install.
So I guess you've got to weight up the cost be comfort. Some people are happy to cop the bill (which isn't too extreme when set up with a timer, as it's a small area, heated for a short time), while others install it & never use it due to cost.
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