Retrofit Underfloor Heating - Access

Chickereeeee

TELLIT01 said:

grumbler said:

IMHO, if a hose has a crawling space under the floor it must  be accessible. Sealing it and losing access is unacceptable.

In effect you are saying that any property with timber floors on sleeper walls should have access to the underfloor space.  I don't know of anybody who has access under their floors. 

Well, without UFH in the way, you can generally get access by  cutting and lifting a few floorboards. This has happened over the years for  re-wiring and central heating installation. Also, if needed, you can get access the same way if you suspect something has gone wrong with the sub-floor - maybe it gets a bit bouncy, or you suspect rot. I can forsee a need to run a cable from the understairs distribution board underfloor to the drive for electric vehicle charging, for example.

With UFH this would become next to impossible.

TELLIT01

There is a difference, to me anyway, between being able to lift a couple of floorboards and the implication by the previous poster that there should be permanent access points to the underfloor void.  Any suspended floor can be broken through, so on that basis there is access to the underfloor void in all properties.

Chickereeeee

TELLIT01 said:

There is a difference, to me anyway, between being able to lift a couple of floorboards and the implication by the previous poster that there should be permanent access points to the underfloor void.  Any suspended floor can be broken through, so on that basis there is access to the underfloor void in all properties.

Unless it is covered by surface mount, retro-fit UFH piping, is my point.