Cost of infloor heating?

[burn_baby_burn]

I just finnished my basement and the last touch is hooking up the infloor heating. It is roughed in with 6 hoses coming out in the utility room. The square footage is roughly 1000 sq ft. I have been quoted $1,400 over the phone. My wife figures that is too high, or she has been told that is too high. With the high demand for plumbers right now, it takes 6 weeks just to get an estimate. I can get this installed next week. Anybody here had infloor heating installed recently? What did it cost? Ballpark? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[BlackArcher101]

Friend of mine in Red Deer recently had his done for $1500 I believe.

[Robbob]

Do you already have a boiler?

[shoestring]

Are you installing "radiant " heating ?
Or just warming your floor?

I really don't know much about this but if radiant is still an option you should look into it. But I am sure it is much more expensive. But a super way to save on energy bills.

Warming a floor, cool, price sounds okay. Are they providing the materials?
There is probably a ratio for plumbers.
Number of fittings = equals labour x time x parts
oh I have no idea what I am talking about.

[Cheese]

in a busy market such as yours the number sounds accurate. In a slower market youd save a few hundred bucks. If you want to haggle for that then give it a shot.

[redforever]

Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn

I just finnished my basement and the last touch is hooking up the infloor heating. It is roughed in with 6 hoses coming out in the utility room. The square footage is roughly 1000 sq ft. I have been quoted $1,400 over the phone. My wife figures that is too high, or she has been told that is too high. With the high demand for plumbers right now, it takes 6 weeks just to get an estimate. I can get this installed next week. Anybody here had infloor heating installed recently? What did it cost? Ballpark? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Good way to go, radiant infloor heating, we have it, love it, but installed couple of years ago, so prices wont be comparable to todays. However, just had a plumber in. All he had to do was run a gas line to my new gas countertop and put the baskets in my new sink and redo a bit of the plumbing there. $1900, so I think the figure you were quoted was more than fair.

It is almost take the trade if you can get them. Most do not like to come and do side jobs etc anymore. They are worked off their feet and dont need small jobs on the side.

[burn_baby_burn]

Originally Posted by Robbob

Do you already have a boiler?

No that was $1400 including all the materials. The only thing that it didn't include was the electrician hooking up the thermastat.

[redforever]

Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn

No that was $1400 including all the materials. The only thing that it didn't include was the electrician hooking up the thermastat.

So you have all the plumbing done, boiler too, and all you need is electrician to hook up the thermostat? We have 4 thermostats, not one, have more square footage though. Isnt your floor done in zones, so you can regulate zones differently? With a wild loop that runs around the perimeter?

Has your wiring been run to where you want your thermostat (thermostats)??? If your house is already developed, it will be more tricky to run wire then.

If the wiring is already in place and all they have to do is hook up the thermostat, then the price quoted is probably too high. If not, it will depend on how easy it is to do the electrical wiring.

And you are right, it is hard to get people to come out to do quotes. The 6 weeks you mentioned is about par in the trade industry now.

[burn_baby_burn]

Originally Posted by redforever

So you have all the plumbing done, boiler too, and all you need is electrician to hook up the thermostat? We have 4 thermostats, not one, have more square footage though. Isnt your floor done in zones, so you can regulate zones differently? With a wild loop that runs around the perimeter?

Has your wiring been run to where you want your thermostat (thermostats)??? If your house is already developed, it will be more tricky to run wire then.

If the wiring is already in place and all they have to do is hook up the thermostat, then the price quoted is probably too high. If not, it will depend on how easy it is to do the electrical wiring.

And you are right, it is hard to get people to come out to do quotes. The 6 weeks you mentioned is about par in the trade industry now.

The basement is developed without the wiring for the thermostats. In hindsite I guess we didn't know what the hell we were doing. We are the second owners of the house, allthough the house is only 2 years old. We developed the basement our selves. I didn't realize about the three differant zones untill recently. I'm kind of ****ed that I didn't put the thought into that part of it.

All I have is the hoses sticking out of the utility room. So the $1400 is suppossed to cover absolutly everything except the electical hook up. So the $1400 includes the boiler.

[redforever]

Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn

The basement is developed without the wiring for the thermostats. In hindsite I guess we didn't know what the hell we were doing. We are the second owners of the house, allthough the house is only 2 years old. We developed the basement our selves. I didn't realize about the three differant zones untill recently. I'm kind of ****ed that I didn't put the thought into that part of it.

All I have is the hoses sticking out of the utility room. So the $1400 is suppossed to cover absolutly everything except the electical hook up. So the $1400 includes the boiler.

Well, since your development is now done, and it sounds like you need more than one thermostat as well, it is going to be dependent on how easy it is to get the wiring to where you need the thermostats. It is not always that easy to run wiring thru developed walls and ceilings, can be quite time consuming. ((

[8 Ball]

Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn

I just finnished my basement and the last touch is hooking up the infloor heating. It is roughed in with 6 hoses coming out in the utility room. The square footage is roughly 1000 sq ft. I have been quoted $1,400 over the phone. My wife figures that is too high, or she has been told that is too high. With the high demand for plumbers right now, it takes 6 weeks just to get an estimate. I can get this installed next week. Anybody here had infloor heating installed recently? What did it cost? Ballpark? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

What type of heat do you have in your house right now, hot water heating or forced air furnace? Assuming you have forced air heating (as the vast majority of people do) they will more than likely upgrade your water heater to a larger size and run your floor heat off that. The quote you got over the phone sounds reasonable, just beware of "over the phone quotes" you don't want to get nailed with extra costs associated with them not seeing the job first.

[redforever]

Originally Posted by 8 Ball

What type of heat do you have in your house right now, hot water heating or forced air furnace? Assuming you have forced air heating (as the vast majority of people do) they will more than likely upgrade your water heater to a larger size and run your floor heat off that. The quote you got over the phone sounds reasonable, just beware of "over the phone quotes" you don't want to get nailed with extra costs associated with them not seeing the job first.

We were advised not to do that. We have something like glycol in ours.

[redforever]

I just had a thought. U said all you have to do is hitch up the thermostats but you have now already developed your area. If you anticipate there might be problems, could you not install all 3 of your thermostats where you have your hoses etc? I mean, it is not as convenient to go there to set your thermostats, it is nicer to have them where the actual zone is that they are heating, but if you anticipate a lot of problems running the wire to the zones , you could have the thermostats elsewhere.