Over the last few months I've been exploring under floor heating as a posiibility for my ground floor. The house was built in 1884 and has a basement, I mention this becauase even with insulation and carpet, the floor is always cool and if I'm going to lay a wood floor it will be worse.
As I intend to lay a floating floor I need to have the underfloor heating placed as near to this as possible, therefore laying the pipes between joist's isn't really an option. Thermoboard make a product where the pipes are prelayed into chipwood panels, but at £35.00+vat (600mmx2400mm) per panel it's a bit out of my price range. However the concept isn't that difficult to replicate with a router, though it might take a while to grove out all the inlays for the pipe, I'm confident I can achieve the right results if I use 19mm sub-flooring panels.
My plan is to inlay the pipe work (10m) into the sub-floor about 100mm spacing, use foam underlay between the sub-floor and floating floor, and of course add more insulation under the sub floor.
I doubt that I will find anyone that's done something similar, but would appreciate any constructive in-put from the heating engineers on this site. I could do with some advice on manifolds, controls and calcs for the job etc...
As I intend to lay a floating floor I need to have the underfloor heating placed as near to this as possible, therefore laying the pipes between joist's isn't really an option. Thermoboard make a product where the pipes are prelayed into chipwood panels, but at £35.00+vat (600mmx2400mm) per panel it's a bit out of my price range. However the concept isn't that difficult to replicate with a router, though it might take a while to grove out all the inlays for the pipe, I'm confident I can achieve the right results if I use 19mm sub-flooring panels.
My plan is to inlay the pipe work (10m) into the sub-floor about 100mm spacing, use foam underlay between the sub-floor and floating floor, and of course add more insulation under the sub floor.
I doubt that I will find anyone that's done something similar, but would appreciate any constructive in-put from the heating engineers on this site. I could do with some advice on manifolds, controls and calcs for the job etc...