underfloor heating

Andy_WSM

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james1911 wrote: »

i have used warmup underfloor heatingsystem from duston electrical for quite sm time now. a great product with lots of benefits like

• Is Invisible and takes practically no living space.
• No dust or any other by product is created by warmup underfloor heating.
• Even distribution of heat as warmup underfloor mats are fitted to each individual room.
• Warmup underfloor heating combined with thermal insulation is able to heat an area quickly, requiring the system to be turned on for a minimum amount of time.
• 15% reduction in heating energy costs.

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willillhill

HI mate,

I work in the installation and maintenance of underfloor heating and i see this problem all the time with people who have either installed their underfloor heating themselves or have had a poor quality company install their product.

Firstly, if the product is inferior then there is a good chance that it will be the product which just doesn't enough heat.

If the product is a reputable one then the main problem is normally when the underfloor heating mats that are beneath the floor surface are set too low, meaning that there is too much space between the heat mat and the underside of the floor surface.

The problem will be little to do with grout as this should not have been used when installing underfloor heating mats. A light adhesive is normally all that is necessary to hold the mats firmly in the right place.

W

Pincher

The goal of electric UFH is NOT to heat a room. It's supposed to give you a warm floor, that's all. You need wet UFH for heating a room.

A couple of things:


1. You need to keep the probe as far from the heating wires as you can, otherwise it thinks it's hotter than it is.


2. Believe it or not, heat travels downwards as well, so you need to insulate below. We put in a 12mm thick board from Wickes, thermal version, so it insulates as well as being water resistant. Subsequently found Hardebacker 500, which would have been cheaper, but that's academic now.

I have one bathroom with electric under floor heating. It's a WarmUp kit, from B&Q. It was just readily available, no advertising intended.

It has the sensor probe between the heating wires buried in the floor, and a square control panel on the wall.

Real Travertine 12mm slabs went on top of the heating mat , using adhesive and grout as usual. Oh yes, all these layers do make the bathroom floor significantly higher than the corridor outside.

Anyway, the digital display is pretty accurate on the temperature, and I can achieve 25 degrees C no problem. I think I got it up to around 30 degrees during testing.

jamesricky674

Hi...Very Nice.....

reeac

Alikay wrote: »

Ours are lukewarm too - and like you, I was worried because my brother in laws gets lovely and warm, The tiles are regular thickness ceramic by the way, on 10mm insulation board..

Therein lies a good deal of your problem. Whose idea was it to put insulation board on top of the heating elements?

ipri

Hi...we are extending kitchen...new bit will have a large,D. glazed widow...full width folding glass doors...and veliux in roof...we have been advised to have U. floor ( water) heating....will this really warm room comfortably in deepest winter? they seem to think we wont need radiators. thanks