underfloor heating

sarah_id1

Had been reading some thread about it.

Looking for advise and experience about most suitable flooring for Kitchen extension with underfloor heating. And not too expensive to fix should there be a problem i.e. break that porcelain tile due to underfloor circuit being fractured.

supa34

You have option of wet, which runs from boiler heating the floor using hot water pipes, and dry, which is electric wires that heat up the floor. Wet is expensive to install but cheaper to run. Dry is cheaper to install and expensive to run. It will boil down to your floor (height) and boiler capacity.

sarah_id1

Thanks supa34. In terms of floor itself. Would it be best to have tiles flooring? Worried about fixing issue in long term at the same time.

supa34

The answer to that 100% is tiles. There are companies that say you can use LVT, which is fancy name for vinyl. But they don't conduct heat as good as tiles.

So tiles is a no brainer and beats all others.

New tiles that look like wood are better than laminates and you can also get tiles that look like carpet.

Price of tiles range from 12 to 50, but average 20.

Do go for large format, bigger than 60x60.

If you know what you need them do pm me, I can get you a cracking deal on tiles.