UNDERFLOOR HEATING SUPPLIERS AND INSTALLERS
Nowadays most laminate flooring is suitable for underfloor heating, but you do need to ask the supplier if it suitable, it’s not really a question for us to answer – but we do get asked it quite often! We rarely have had any reports of problems using laminate flooring, but we soon get to know if any manufactures laminates don’t work with underfloor heating. I can only think of a couple of case’s in the past were the customer has installed the heating, got the flooring down, then whacked the heating on full blast and cooked the floor, this resulted in de-lamination of the flooring, and ironically it was the same brand of flooring, so we soon get to know which isn’t very good!
In the past most customers were sold a cable system then told to cover the cables with a latex levelling compound ready for the final flooring to sit on top, but now times have moved on and we supply what is known as “carbon heating film”, this is a very thin plastic laminated sheet, its quite a new idea and still most trade’s people have not seen it.
It’s a brilliant system to install and makes it a good choice for the keen DIY’er. The carbon system is a dry installation, this means no screeds or adhesives or anything messy like that. This system comes as a kit which comprises of Depron insulation, the heating film itself, a moisture barrier and finally the digital thermostat.
To install the laminate underfloor heating system all you need to do is cover the floor with the Depron, tape the joints together using something like 2” duck tape, then lay the elements out as per floor plan that we would do for you, run the wires and test the heating elements, cover the system with the moisture barrier and then lay your laminate flooring directly on top, once you have done this connect it up to the power and away you go!
If your thinking of buying a laminate underfloor heating system then you will need to supply us with a floor plan, don’t panic these are easy to do, quite simply get some paper (graph paper is best) draw the outline of the floor, imagine looking down from a birds eye view, then using a tape measure take all the measurements of each wall, or straight line, don’t include things like kitchen units or built in cupboards, we just want the “free floor space”, then put your contact details on, what room it is and send off to us either via email, post, or fax, we will work out the best system to fit into your area and provide you with a quotation, if your happy we will take it from there.
