What’s The Best Flooring For Use With Underfloor Heating

1. What’s The Best Flooring For Use With Underfloor Heating? At UK Screeds, we are not only a screeding installation company, but we also install underfloor heating. This is becoming more and more popular as people realise all the benefits when compared with a radiator system. Just to begin with, underfloor heating will heat the room evenly which is not the case with a radiator system. A radiator heats the air around it and heats the room up through convection and this means that there will be parts of the room that are cooler than others. It also uses a lot of energy compared with an underfloor heating system. Underfloor heating warms up the floor, so everything will be heated evenly. A radiator system typically needs to be run at 65° – 75°C in order to heat the room effectively, whereas underfloor heating only needs to run at a temperature of 29°C or even less, depending upon the floor type, in order to achieve the same level of comfort. So obviously, underfloor heating will save a considerable amount of money on energy costs. As liquid floor screed contractors in Reading, we install the underfloor heating pipes on top of insulation boards and then cover them with a layer of liquid screed. Because the screed we use is in the liquid format it will totally envelop the heating pipes which means that the heat transfer into the room will be perfectly even. The screed itself has nearly twice the thermal conductivity of a typical sand and cement screed, so that also helps to save on the energy bills. However, the choice of the final flooring needs to be appropriate for use with underfloor heating, and this needs to be taken into consideration. Whatever flooring is

2. chosen, it must be such that it does not act as an insulator, thereby blocking the heat. Without a doubt, the best sort of flooring for use in conjunction with underfloor heating is tile or stone, and also polished concrete. They all possess high thermal conductivity, so they heat up quickly and also retain the heat well, making the system efficient to run. READ MORE UK Screeds Ltd 5 Thorpes Field Alvescot England Bampton Oxfordshire OX18 2QF 0800 197 8802 info@ukscreedsltd.co.uk https://www.ukscreedsltd.co.uk/