Underfloor Heating Today Is Not Just For High-End Homes

1. Underfloor Heating Today Is Not Just For High- End Homes More and more today, modern homes are being constructed with underfloor heating built-in. Underfloor heating used to be thought of as only for higher-end properties, but the fact is that in this age of environmental awareness, underfloor heating has a lot going for it. It is so much more efficient than a radiator system. Just to begin with, radiators need to be heated to 65°C – 75°C compared with underfloor heating which can be only 29°C or even less, depending upon the type of floor installed. Radiators work by convection, heating the air nearest to them first, and this has the effect of leading to cold spots in the room, while next to the radiators it is hot. Radiators also send dust around the room along with the moving air, which is not good for people who have breathing difficulties or asthma. There are two types of underfloor heating, either electric or water-based. Electric systems use either a heating cable or a heat mat which has fine wires running through it. Since it runs on electricity you will find that your heating bills will be relatively high, unless you have solar panels, because electricity tariffs are far from cheap. On the other hand, a water-based system uses heating pipes through which heated water is pumped around the floor. The water may be heated by a boiler, but equally could be heated using solar energy, a ground-source heat pump, or an air source heat pump, each of which is very environmentally friendly and

2. costs very little to run, the only cost involved being the electricity to run the pump. A ground source heat pump does require a certain amount of space in which to lay the heating pipes, but it can also be designed to use the heat from a borehole. An air-source heat pump extracts heat from the air using a piece of equipment around the same size as an air conditioning unit. At UK Screeds we install water-based underfloor heating systems as these are less expensive to run than an electric system, and the savings will continue for as long as the building is in use. We will then cover the system with a self- levelling floor compound in Guildford, or wherever you are constructing the building. Our floor levelling compounds, or screeds, are in liquid format, unlike the traditional sand and cement screeds, as these have several advantages, especially when used in conjunction with underfloor heating. READ MORE UK Screeds Ltd 5 Thorpes Field Alvescot England Bampton Oxfordshire OX18 2QF 0800 197 8802 info@ukscreedsltd.co.uk https://www.ukscreedsltd.co.uk/