First Floor Underfloor Heating Installations

The ground floor installation technique involves pipework laid inside the solid screed layer making up the floor. The pipes are clipped to the rigid foil backed insulation, with a 75mm screed poured on top. A foam edge insulation strip is installed around the perimeter of each room, to allow the expansion and contraction of the screed once heated. Our most favoured 1st floor installation technique is different to that of the ground floor. 1st floor installations consist of aluminium spreader plates with the underfloor heating pipes laid inside, heavy duty nailed to the underside of the wooden floor. These spreader plates are installed from below so no hold up is caused to the timber frame supplier or builder. Manifolds are positioned on each floor with their own circulating pump to give pumping capacity to all the water within the heating pipes. Every system is individually designed, and when using renewable heating sources such as heat pumps, different considerations are made to the type of pipe, layout and detailing of the system to ensure it all runs correctly and efficiently. Always bear in mind that as installers, we can pick and choose from a number of different installation techniques. We will assess every situation and recommend a system that suits the client and the property.

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