Underfloor Heating Over Existing Floor. 7 years later all good no problem with the heat coming through at all. Underfloor heating is a good choice for heating your kitchen especially an open plan living kitchen.
Its ideal for installing underfloor heating in an existing house or over an existing concrete floor. 2 x 1 battens are fitted at 400mm spacing to create a fake joist floor leaving a 100mm gap at each end for routing the pipe into the next bay and manifold returns. Screed floor Insulation boards UFH wires and the floor was tiled.
The main problem with conventional wet Underfloor Heating and existing properties is the upheaval of existing floors.
It works well with hard flooring often used in a kitchen and means you can use wall. Our overfloor systems can be installed directly over any solid subfloor such as existing floorboards plywood or concretescreed floors or any solid surface such as existing tileswooden floors. Wet Underfloor Heating Under wood The overlay board is bonded to the floor using a specialist non-solvent based adhesive. Retrofitting underfloor heating and insulation on solid floors involves a different process than if you are looking to do the same with a suspended timber floor so please bear that in mind as you read this guide.
