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Underfloor heating installed on a suspended timber floor

audrey01 · 2013-08-29 12:18:36

Does anyone out there have any recent experience of having a wet underfloor heating system installed on a suspended timber floor? We are currently renovating our house (i.e. everything gutted, sound insulation, external wall insulation, side and loft extension, etc.) and we would like to install underfloor heating in the…

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Andehh Posts: 33 Forumite

16 August 2015 at 7:40AM

We are in the same situation, newish build house and retrofitting UFH to 25sqm. Nu heat low pro claim a 120w/ms2 whilst polypipe claim only 79w/ms2 despite using bigger pipes and the pipe sits into fibreboard (insulation added?) instead of the screed of nu heat. Nu heat has 10mm pipes, polypipe is 12mm.

I just want the best performance, but the above logic I'm struggling to understand?

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