Wooden floors and underfloor heating

[Eskimo01]

Hello

Has anyone overlaid underfloor heating with real wooden floors - not engineered? Apparently it can be done if you turn your heating up 1 degree per day and leave the wooden flooring in the room not laid. Well that's what our builder has told us, before we explore this further I just wanted to know if anyone else has had real wooden floors over underfloor heating? Also any experience with engineered floors and any recommended suppliers in the South East?!

Thank you!

AFAIK you cannot use solid wood with underfloor heating - it is not stable enough. We have engineered over underfloor and is lovely. We used an on line supplier - UKflooringDirect who were really good at sending samples and we got a good price/product and the service was great.

We had underfloor heating and oak planks in our last house. Mixed width of the boards. Did get some movement, but not too bad - more due to sun than heating I think. I want to do the same in this house but dh thinks we should go for engineered. But I just don't think it looks and wears as well.

Thanks that's interesting about the sun - hadn't even considered that and it will be a sunny room. Think we may need to discuss with a flooring specialist.