underfloor

Underfloor heating and cooling is a form of central heating and cooling that achieves indoor climate control for thermal comfort using hydronic or electrical heating elements embedded in a floor. Heating is achieved by conduction, radiation and convection. Use of underfloor heating dates back to the Neoglacial and Neolithic periods.

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    Pecilastic on electric underfloor heating

    Hi, Anyone know if you can fix Pecilastic (or similar) to electric underfloor heating mat that has been covered in levelling compound? Have a situation where the join in two insulation boards coincides with a join in timber floorboards below it. It’s a plank tile floor and the planks will be...
  2. J

    Tiling on underfloor heating warm panel

    Hi all, I've put water underfloor heating down in our bathroom using "ProWarm Warm panel" which are panels with premade tracks for the pipes in wet rooms. The panels are glued together but not glued down (consistent with manufacturers instruction) and with plastic end panels which enables the...
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    Water UFH Advice required please, Multi floor level and underfloor heating...

    Hi, i am new to this forum but after some advice if possible please. I am building a new extension and as part of the work i am knocking through between the new extension and an existing room. Ideally i would like Underfloor heating throughout. My plan for the new extension was pipe connected...
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    Laying travertine on electric underfloor heating.

    Hi all, I can't seem to find a thread with the info I need so hopefully someone can help 🤞 I have a 25 sqm extension which I have just built for a customer which he now wants tiled with honed and filled travertine tiles 600x300 from Topps tiles layed in brick bond format, I have had a tiler...
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    Natural stone on wooden floor with electric UFH

    Hi Guys, I'm 6 months in being a tiler, I've done lots all my life and sold the dam things for 10 years so I'm after a little advice on a upcoming job please. 10 Sqm of natural stone (they have not chose which stone yet) on a upstair wooden floor and they want electric under floor heating too...
  6. kiteboy

    Turning on Underfloor After Tiling

    Hi all About to turn of underfloor heating a month after we tiled the kitchen floor - (its cold) but i gather this should be done slowly and gradually up to the working temp and then turned back down again too Ive checked the control valve on the underfloor manifold and the lowest it goes too...
  7. Bopster

    Electric UFH Which electric ufh system

    Looking for recommendations for a job I looked at yesterday, it’l be a high spec kitchen which will be having a tiled floor on the concrete slab. Now although I have installed plenty of electric ufh in kitchens and bathrooms none of them have been this size. It’s all one floor area but would...
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    Loose tiles & underfloor heating...

    Hi all New to the forum so hello, please go gentle, and let me know if I'm posting in the wrong place? We've recently had an extention, during which we also had the kitchen, utility and all three toilets refitted and retiled. The builders organised or 'did' all the work throught the build...
  9. Andy Allen

    Weber Weber set plus suitable with underfloor heating or not?

    Always said on the bags suitable for UFH, notice today it's disappeared off the bag..... Web site, pdf, and technical advice all seem sketchy..? Any one know if the format has been changed...?
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    Water UFH Popping tiles where underfloor heating pipes are...

    Hi, some of the tiles in the kitchen, landing and bathrooms have grout that that loosened and fallen out and tiles are popping in various places. Mostly where the underfloor heating pipes are. Under tile is concrete. We ripped some of the tiles out and re laid again. However the issue is still...
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    Underfloor heating questions

    I've had two quotes for tiling a kitchen and hallway. The kitchen is to have underfloor heating, just enough heat to warm the tiles as have radiator in the kitchen already. One tiler said single wire would be fine for my circumstances, the other said the matt system would be best. The area is...
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    electric underfloor heating supplier

    hi anyone know russell whop sells underfloor electric heating ive lost his no and cant remember his surname or his company . he brings his heat mats in from ireland . theyre good mats at good price but i need to ask him a tech question .
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    Massive problem involving chipboard flooring and underfloor heating.

    I'm a chippy, I fit a lot of kitchens and some bathrooms, inevitably I have done quite a bit of tiling, which I have learnt from older tradesman I have worked with in my early years in the trade. I've never had a complaint about my tiling, I don't class myself as a tiler, I can accurately cut a...
  14. kiteboy

    What primer and adhesive - underfloor calcium sulphate

    Hi all Just wondering if there are any recommendations for correct primer and adhesive for a kitchen with underfloor (piped) heating on a calcium sulphate screed Ive was planning on using Bal APD primer and BAL adhesive but Ive just read that BAL stuff is cement based so perhaps no good...
  15. kiteboy

    Laitance removal - underfloor heating screed

    Hi all Just been reading up on the above and it looks like I should have sanded the floor down a bit sooner - no one advised that it should be done after a couple of weeks Floor has been down a good while now and has a good surface I think - its not crumby at all but hey may as well do a...
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    Water UFH Which adhesive to the ditra mat on the anhydrite screed with water UFH

    Hi. I have about 55 sqm floor, anhydrite screed laid about 5 years ago with water UFH. Because my house is old, build 1902 on side of the hill and on the clay, I have few crack on floor. One of the first shop where I was looking for tiles, wood effect which I want, was Topptiles. Because crack...
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    New DIY geek needs underfloor heating

    Really enjoy DIY. So much so that I am finding new things to do even if they don't need it. Joined this forum to see if I could discuss how to make my own underfloor heating for laminate flooring or if I buy a mat, 500mm X 600mm.
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    Underfloor heating between joists

    Hi all Just looked at a job where builder wants to put down 22m chipboard over joists then Ditra. I said nooooo. The heating system is wet on a polystyrene board with aluminium trays screwed to joists. I have mentioned giffa flooring. The joists are 400 centres so could probably use the 18mm...
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    45° plank tile with underfloor heating

    I thought I'd share this project, quite a lot went into this and I think it turned out great. The floor was a bit of a mess so there was some leveling prior to fitting the insulation and underfloor heating. This system is the new pro warm system which uses the dural cifh carrier mat and there...
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    Wet room construction over joists with wet underfloor heating

    Hi, First time here and hoping this is an easy question! I am installing a wet room upstairs and going back to joists but I also want to install low profile wet underfloor heating (I already have it), what will give me the best surface to tile on and support a bath on top? So I was planning...
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