underfloor heating

I'm after some advice on how to build in expansion gaps for my kitchen floor. The floor is 8sqm, and my current plan is as follows - leave a 5 - 10mm perimeter at all areas where floor meets walls. But what do I do with this gap? Do I put some special tape in it to stop thermal bridging or...

Hi all - greeting from Sweden. I'm working on a project right now - rebuilding my "uteroom" - an outdoor room that we use for 1-3 seasons. The room itself is dry - walls on all four sides and a roof - One wall is the back of our house, one wall is our neighbor's uterum, one wall is...

Hi, I'm looking for some advice please We recently had our kitchen floor tiled to match the existing floor of our adjoining extension. The kitchen floor was over an inch lower. We had an ufh co who laid a cork base over the old tiles (which had no movement), then the heating mat and then a...

Hi, We're in the process of renovating our kitchen and have chosen these tiles in 600mm square size: stonesuperstore.co.uk/p-357-black-starlight-quartz-tiles.aspx I phoned to order them today and was advised we shouldn't use them with underfloor heating which has rather messed up our plans...

Hi i have a job coming up and need some advice, it is on a concrete floor which is at least a year old and has pipe heating underneath it which has been commisioned and the screed conditioned. can i tile straight to the concrete with flexi adhesive or do i need a decoupling membrane down? also...

Hello I'm looking to lay a limestone floors of about 24m3, using large stones (900x600x20). The existing floor is concrete (35 years old, not newly laid), and the plan is: adhesive, 10mm marmox boards, heatmat, levelflex fibre compound, then (about a week later) tilemaster adhesive (standard...

Hi There, Need advice please, we are set on buying White Mirror fleck Quartz tiles for our Conservatory (new built) and we definitely would want to install underfloor heating. The company we bought the underfloor heating materials warned us to be careful and confirm first if Quartz is suitable...

Hi All. Every time I install underfloor heating under tiles I have a problem with finding metal door bars to match the rest of the house because of the height difference which is usually about 30mm from top of tile to underside of carpet. Once I've fitted the (10mm) insulation boards plus...

Hi I've tiled onto 9mm and 12mm ply for years but got a job comen up and the floor boards are sound and have very little movement and going to put 12mm ply down with underfloor heating and travertine on top using weber flex but now there is so meney ways to do this now and people saying so...

Hi - I'm looking to install a Jupiter UFH - the System between Joists in a Victorian conversion on the second floor. Anybody have previous experience with installing this system. The system will go under tile and under engineered wood floors. Any other comparative systems that work, especially...

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Hi Guys, Bit of advice, had a job when the customer wants over 65m2 of Porcelain laid into a garage floor, not a drama but what would you say about laying electric heating mesh under the whole lot? Is that likely to be a nightmare? Only ever done small areas? Rob

Hi Everyone, Im Quite a novice at this DIY lark. I want to put underfloor heating in my newly built extension kitchen/dining area. Should I put a additional timber on top of my floorboards and then insulation boards on top of the boarding too before I start to lay the heating mat ? Some people...

Hello guys, I am after a bit of advice /guidance. I am replacing my bathroom floor with electric under floor heating and a tiled finish. The current floor is floors boards, thin ply and vinyl. The vinyl will be coming up and I have bought insulations boards to be fixed prior to the ufh going...

Hi all 1st post so hope I'm doing it correct I am tiling a floor in a bathroom and I have laid 12mm wbp plywood and laid electric UHF no the question is do I screed over the UHF mat first then spread tile adhesive and tile or do I just spread adhesive straight over mat and tile also does the...

Hello, my first post proper. I have a large extension to tile. The floorscreed has been poured over the wet underfloor heating loops, and has set nicely. My problem is that the finished screed level is just under 40mm lower than it should have been. I now have a choice of either somehow adding...

Hi guys, Been searching for answers to my questions and found this excellent forum! Basically, I'm tiling a kitchen/hallway and downstairs loo. Same tiles, straight set throughout. No problem usually, but the customer wants under floor heat mat laid only in the kitchen, Its a concrete floor...

Hi, anybody who has laid Indian stone flags will know they easilly lift, I always P.V.A the back before laying and this works, my question is - has anybody laid them on sand/cement bed on top of a sand/cement screed with underfloor heating in ? My fear is that the rise and fall of temp may make...

Hello, advice needed I have recently moved into a lovely house, it is 8 years old and has underfloor heating. I have noticed that the floor in the Kitchen has started to crack the tiles (4"X4") just by the outside wall. I found 2 cracked at first but now a couple of weeks later I have found 3...

We need some advice. Have insulated and screeded bathroom floor ready for electric underfloor heating mats to be tiled over. We'd like to use traditional reclaimed quarry tiles, 30mm thick but this is fairly unconventional and most mat producers recommend a thinner tile. Does anyone have...