Adding Upstairs Heating to Underfloor Geothermal Heating System

[NMissin]

Hi all,

I'm back after many years away, is the crazy shed man still here?! He was bizarre and really annoyed me last time and was why I left this place.

So, I'm looking at buying a house which has geothermal underfloor heating via a ground source heat pump. Only downstairs is heated in the entire house and I'm wondering whether it's possible to add heating upstairs using this same system?

Many thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Alec_t]

Welcome back!
What are the specifications of the heating system?
By how much would you want to extend the system?

 

[NMissin]

I don't have too many specifics about the system as I've viewed the house once and this was only something I noticed post viewing - plus I have pretty much no knowledge or understanding of these systems either. I would probably be looking to add heating to two normal size bedrooms upstairs and there is an annex too which might need heating provided to two bedrooms upstairs too.

I suppose at the moment I'm generalising at the feasibility of this - obviously the other option is just to wire in electric radiators I guess.

 

[Alec_t]

This site gives an indication of how many kW you may need. The house vendor should have figures for the present system.
Obviously the present system would need to be over-sized now in order to heat any further rooms. Considering how expensive these installations are, I'd be surprised if it is over-sized.

 

[NMissin]

Thanks, that gives me a direction to go in now.

 

[StephenStephen]

Do you know why there's no heating in the upstairs? (Just curious)

 

[big-all]

Hi all,

I'm back after many years away, is the crazy shed man still here?! He was bizarre and really annoyed me last time and was why I left this place.

So, I'm looking at buying a house which has geothermal underfloor heating via a ground source heat pump. Only downstairs is heated in the entire house and I'm wondering whether it's possible to add heating upstairs using this same system?

Many thanks in advance for your help.

if you mean ban-all-sheds then yes ----we are all different and we need to be understanding to be honest we can all be annoying including me --its not normally intentional for most so we need to make allowances

 

[NMissin]

Do you know why there's no heating in the upstairs? (Just curious)

Other than when they built the house in 2004, that they believed the underfloor heating downstairs to be adequate. I guess for the most part it is, but in the depths of winter I really can't see how it can be and assume that condensation might be an issue. What brought my attention to it was that I noticed a couple of electric plug in radiators in the video of the house - so there is certainly a need there for a solution to this oversight.

 

[NMissin]

if you mean ban-all-sheds then yes ----we are all different and we need to be understanding to be honest we can all be annoying including me --its not normally intentional for most so we need to make allowances

Yes, I completely concur with that, but he'd - from what I saw - comment without any relevance to the topic and really try to go on the attack about the most made point he could to find conflict in.

 

[Madrab]

Heat rises, and depending on the layout of the house and how well insulated it is, the UFH may be adequate to heat the whole house.

if it's a conventional UFH system with a manifold then there could always be capacity in the system to be able to supply radiators but there would need to be a bit of working out to calculate current capacities & load and therefore if it's capable and then what would be needed to incorporate a new zone with oversized rads etc.

 

[NMissin]

Heat rises, and depending on the layout of the house and how well insulated it is, the UFH may be adequate to heat the whole house.

if it's a conventional UFH system with a manifold then there could always be capacity in the system to be able to supply radiators but there would need to be a bit of working out to calculate current capacities & load and therefore if it's capable and then what would be needed to incorporate a new zone with oversized rads etc.

Thanks, I'm viewing the property again today so will get more info on the system in place

Here's a video of the place for more context:

And pictures of the place for some context:

 

[NMissin]

And more images again for context

 

[big-all]

Yes, I completely concur with that, but he'd - from what I saw - comment without any relevance to the topic and really try to go on the attack about the most made point he could to find conflict in.

i dont know if he is at at all autistic but a trait off autism is to get things down correctly not for any negative or pedantic way but more a "here you are this is the correct answer" rather than the usual 85-95% [all the important bits] near enough not needing further comment whereas autistic can say "no its not right" even though it doesn't matter the need for accuracy can overrule the social interaction niceties