When under floor heating is installed in a new building, the plastic tubes are usually set into a solid concrete floor. Flooring insulation is laid over the base concrete, and rows of special pipe clips are fixed to the insulation, sometimes a metal mesh is used instead of the clips. The flexible heating tubes are then clipped into place at the required spacings, and a concrete screed is poured on top. With a boarded floating floor, a layer of grooved insulation is laid over the concrete base, and the pipes are set in aluminium diffusion plates inserted in the grooves. The entire floor area is then covered with an edged-bonded chipboard or a similar decking material.


The heating pipes can be fastened with space clips to the underside of a suspended wooden floor. In this situation, clearance holes are drilled through the joists at strategic points to permit a continuous run of pipework. Reflective foil and thick blanket insulation is installed below the pipes. It is possible to lay the pipes on top of a suspended floor, but this method raises the floor level by the thickness of the pipe assembly and the new decking. Potterton Boiler Repair London plumbers can install this system.


Benefits of Under Floor Heating:


Although it easy to incorporate under floor heating while a house is being built, installing it in an existing building is possible, though you may have to raise floors to accommodate it. Under floor heating can be made to work alongside a panel radiator system and can provide the ideal solution for heating and new conservatory, for example. Potterton Boiler Repairs London know the benefits of UFCH. Compared with panel radiators an under floor heating system radiates heat more evenly and over a wider area. This has the effect of reducing cost and cold spots within the room and produces a more comfortable environment, where the air is warmest at floor level and cools as it rises towards the ceiling. Under floor heating is more energy efficient and less costly to run than other central heating systems because it operates at a lower temperature, and because there’s a more even temperature throughout a room, the rooms thermostat can be set a degree or two lower. With a relatively cool water in the return cycle, a modern condensing boiler works even more efficiently.