Does anyone out there have any recent experience of having a wet underfloor heating system installed on a suspended timber floor?
We are currently renovating our house (i.e. everything gutted, sound insulation, external wall insulation, side and loft extension, etc.) and we would like to install underfloor heating in the newly open-plan ground floor space. We would remove all the original floorboards, insulate the void between the joists, lay back the floorboards, lay plywood sheet 18mm, then UFH pipes, then finish with engineered wood. But this would require the whole floor level to be raised by approx. 50mm, which would cause problems with the first step of the staircase, I would imagine.
We have searched the internet for a solution that doesn't involve raising the floor that much and still give us the best heat output. We came across things like "UFH panels placed between the joists", or "wood floor directly on a screed with pipes", but we are not sure if the Celotex insulation between the joists would be strong enough to support the weight of a cement layer.
Has anyone got any direct experience of what solutions might work best? Many thanks!
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Wet underfloor heating installed on a suspended timber floor that doesn't raise the floor level too much
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audrey01 · 28/08/2013 21:12
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