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Will carper underlay heat a bedroom with concrete flooring?

  • 30-01-2016 6:31pm
    #1
    Sunflower 27
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    Hi all

    Just after a bit of advice. Two questions, so any help would be much appreciated.

    1. I need to heat my bedroom. I have carpet on the floor but there is no underlay and I am wondering if an underlay would warm the room at all?
    The floor is concrete.

    2. I have to turn on the immersion to have a shower. I have a timer that comes on every morning before I wake so the water is hot, but I am curious as to how much it costs to turn it on for 30 minutes every evening. My flatmate has started having a second shower (he uses a 30min boost button) and I think it is going to really increase our electricity bill.

    Many thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    roy rodgers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭roy rodgers


    Sunflower 27 wrote: »
    Hi all

    Just after a bit of advice. Two questions, so any help would be much appreciated.

    1. I need to heat my bedroom. I have carpet on the floor but there is no underlay and I am wondering if an underlay would warm the room at all?
    The floor is concrete.

    2. I have to turn on the immersion to have a shower. I have a timer that comes on every morning before I wake so the water is hot, but I am curious as to how much it costs to turn it on for 30 minutes every evening. My flatmate has started having a second shower (he uses a 30min boost button) and I think it is going to really increase our electricity bill.

    Many thanks in advance.

    No 1 No
    No 2 it costs around 12 cents a kw to heat water by electric. An Immersion is about 3kw per hour so 36 cents a hour


  • #3
    Wearb
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 6,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wearb


    roy rodgers wrote: »
    No 1 No
    No 2 it costs around 12 cents a kw to heat water by electric. An Immersion is about 3kw per hour so 36 cents a hour

    12c per kw? I need to change my supplier. Can it be gotten for that Roy?


  • #4
    suitseir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 887 ✭✭✭suitseir


    roy rodgers wrote: »
    No 1 No
    No 2 it costs around 12 cents a kw to heat water by electric. An Immersion is about 3kw per hour so 36 cents a hour


    I got a downstairs bedroom carpeted recently. It is a downstairs room and has concrete floor. The underlay that was recommended to me is a new type of one which is dearer than the normal bog standard one and has insulating properties, not unlike the roll out insulation used in attics. I have to say it has made a great difference to heat retention in that room.


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