After a winter full of sky-high energy costs, Marc-Marie Huijbregts has discovered what the energy guzzler in his house is: the underfloor heating in his bathroom. “People really need to pay attention.”
Underfloor heating is now standard in the construction of new homes. Nevertheless, Marc-Marie Huijbregts is now sounding the alarm. According to him, this is extremely energy-inefficient. “I had a terrible one this week lightbulbmoment,” the comedian explains in his podcast Marc-Marie & Aaf Tell Everything.
Underfloor heating
Marc-Marie has had a winter full of high energy costs. “Our electricity was always very much. I thought: how is it possible that we are more… You see those blocks and then it says: ‘Detached house’, and we were completely beyond that. I thought: how can we consume even more than a detached house?!”
He continues: “I was marinating in bed like: what could it be? I went through the house like a detective in my head and then suddenly I thought: it’s the underfloor heating in the bathroom, because it’s on day and night.”
Unwise
His co-host Aaf Brandt Corstius stern: “Yes, you should not do that.”
Marc-Marie: “Yes, but you can’t turn it off and on. Yes, you can turn it off and on, but if you turn it off and then turn it on, you have to turn it on for a long time, because those tiles are quite thick. Before you enjoy it, then you have to turn it on for a long time. We had turned it off completely and you can see those rods become so small.”
Hundreds of euros
Aaf: “It saves hundreds of euros? O How terrible.”
Marc-Marie: “We are now back in the direction of a terraced house, as it should be.”
Aaf: “I think that a government campaign should be devoted to this. I think: yes, underfloor heating, people completely forget that.”
Marc-Marie: “Yes, people who hear this: pay attention, because the underfloor heating is verneukerative.”
‘It kills you’
Underfloor heating is just a bad idea, agrees Aaf. “It kills you.”
Marc-Marie: “It will kill you, yes. Incredible weather. Now I have such a very small radiant heater. That’s a quarter of an hour or so. I am now rid of that penny puller under my feet.”