Seamless porch from hallway

tallac

I'm having the house renovated and the hallway will have a wet underfloor heating system with large porcelain tiles. None of the heating system work has started yet but I've since decided to also get a porch done as well. I'm not able to throw stupid amounts of money on things but I just wanted to ask if there was a way to make the flooring between the porch and the hallway more seamless? Other than them both having the same tile and being at the same level, I guess the inner door will still need to have a door frame so there is no easy way to avoid the door threshold, right? (happy to be corrected if there is).

Also, with regards to the underfloor heating, is it a good idea to request the underfloor heating to extend into the porch, or will this just end up causing a massive heat loss? Is it even allowed to have a heated porch? We're looking to have a porch similar to this but with different windows, the front door will have side window panels on either side and there will be a small side window on one side of the porch.



Thanks in advance

fenwick458

if you fit a new casing and an internal door (it looks like an external door now?) then you can not even have a threshold, just run the tiles right through.
and yes I'd put the UFH into the porch. handy for keeping the doormat dry, drying wet shoes/boots

grumbler

Without cavity wall and (most likely) any insulation in the floor, UFH in the porch will be very wasteful and, possibly, against regulations.

tallac

fenwick458 said:

if you fit a new casing and an internal door (it looks like an external door now?) then you can not even have a threshold, just run the tiles right through.
and yes I'd put the UFH into the porch. handy for keeping the doormat dry, drying wet shoes/boots

I didn't know what a casing was but Google seems to say it's just an internal door frame, is that right? So basically, treat the inner porch door as an internal room door? But this would mean the whole porch would need to be properly secure and decently thermally insulated? I thought the security of the a porch wasn't as much as a normal house front door because it's the inner door that provides all the security.

Sandtree

Its a matter of choice but if you want to make the inner door an interior door then indeed you need to consider security and insulation of the porch much more. Otherwise you retain the inner door also being external grade and it being the true point of entry to the dwelling itself and leave the porch unheated. You will have the step into the hallway but can retain the same tiles, levels etc.

In my former neck of the woods all the porches were left unlocked so delivery people could leave parcels "inside"  but the inner door was the security point. 

Ajmason42

In my opinion wasted of money heating the porch. You can get low thresholds for doors. The “house door” needs to be as secure as it is now. All the porch provides is a buffer area, helps stop freezing air rushing in a little and place to shed wet shoes etc, drop the shopping and possible extra storage. Consider that they are glass and when you go away all the post newspapers etc are on show to any one snooping around unless you have a good neighbour to move it.