How To Lay Underfloor Heating On A Concrete Floor

Here screed is being laid over warm water underfloor heating pipes to the correct depth in this install using products by the wunda group image credit.

How to lay underfloor heating on a concrete floor.

Laying laminate or engineered flooring onto an electrical underfloor heating and a concrete floor laminate or engineered flooring needs to be laid onto a perfectly flat surface. Wunda group if the pipes are housed in the concrete floor slab sometimes the case for new homes this is could be 150mm thick and give a reaction time of over four hours. Prior to laying the anything on the solid floor you first need to insulate the envelope of the house loft walls and floors. Either through pipes carrying hot water embedded in or directly below the floor or via electric mats in or below the floor.

Make sure your concrete has completely cured before you lay down your in floor heating mat. Fill any cracks in the concrete and use self leveling compounds if necessary. This works particularly well with underfloor heating and includes a compatible layer of insulation. Thicker floors require more energy to heat them so larger cables up to 7mm are used.

I plan to lay ceramic floor ontop of the heating. In this situation. The heat is made possible in two ways. An alternative breathable option is limecrete.

However my kitchen floor is concrete. I am planning to install electric mat wire underfloor heating in my kitchen with a thermostat. To lay them directly on top of the electric wires of an underfloor heating system therefore is a little unwise. In the following guide we look at installing a wet underfloor heating system although you can install electric dry systems.

Instead of blowing hot air through a vent or pumping hot water to a baseboard radiator along the wall radiant heat warms up the entire floor. The underfloor heating mats on mesh are very easy to use but limited in their ability to heat floors when the covering such as concrete or deep slabs is thick. Process of installing underfloor heating on a solid floor. Remember also that concrete floors and damp proof membranes may upset the equilibrium of the structure causing damp problems.