Heating/ Hot water options

Hi im looking  for help with having air to water underfloor heating system installed in my house in bulgaria,  im trying  to purchase the equipment from a firm bit im.habing issues trying g to communicate with them they just won't answer . So any suggestions on.whp would be good to approach.  Also im looking for a builder to fit. Kitchen.and a bathroom. Also any leads please.

Hi im looking  for help with having air to water underfloor heating system installed in my house in bulgaria,  im trying  to purchase the equipment from a firm bit im.habing issues trying g to communicate with them they just won't answer . So any suggestions on.whp would be good to approach.  Also im looking for a builder to fit. Kitchen.and a bathroom. Also any leads please.

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@Janearnasalam

I doubt there's much expertise here on air to water systems yet. I'm also unconvinced that they're the all-singing, all-dancing universal solution that some claim them to be, or that the "all the eggs in one basket" approach is best.  Our properties all use split-unit ACs for heating/cooling and the "old fashioned" wall-mounted boilers for hot water. We've found them cheap to run, reliable and easy to fix when they go wrong. We also have wood-burners as back up but we've only ever used one of those, and that was just for the flame aesthetic...😁

@Janearnasalam

Underfloor heating is a very nice solution, and you can hook it up to a pellet stove with boiler, or either an air or in-ground heat pump. My neighbour put in underfloor heating with in-ground heat pump, but he did all the work himself. I reckon it's a bit pricey, especially if done as part of a renovation (vs. new build), and it's probably not the option with lots of local experts.

As @JimJ says, the Bulgarian standard option is an electric hot water boiler and split AC units for heat/cool, with perhaps extra heat from a standalone wood/pellet stove. There are many houses with proper central heating radiators (driven typically by wood/pellet stove, mains gas, buried gas tank) but you still need need to think about summer cooling which is why this is not the preferred option. I have exactly the same setup as @JimJ and you can easily find tradespeople who can help you. I did mull over the whole central heating option (especially after my other neighbour put in central heating with a buried gas tank), but I decided that my preferred route forward was more split AC units (very clean and easy to use), and some solar panels in the garden to offset some of the electricity bill. Splits are not great at low temperatures, but I've heated my house just with the splits when it was -12 (but the bill got pretty big, hence the solar panels).

As Brits, we're most used to a nice gas CH system, and most of us didn't need summer cooling (until recently). I find gas CH very convenient with a very comfortable warmth. It perhaps takes a while to get used to AC units for everything, but they do work very well.