Reteofitting underfloor heating before or during kitchen refurb

[Auntfloor]

Hello
I am retrofitting wet ufh in the living areas on the ground floor of my semi detached house. I need the kitchen units changed at a later date (need to save plus long lead time to order the units). The layout will broadly remain the same as now.

Do you think I should get ufh installed plus change the flooring of the exposed areas now vs later? This would mean that there will be no ufh under the new units etc but may also mean that the flooring under the units will need to change later. unless people typically don't bother changing flooring under kitchen units? My concern is damage to the new flooring once the kitchen units are removed and replaced by new ones.

Wwyd?

You don't put underfloor heating under units anyway. It overheats and can damage the units. Yes the floor could get damaged but you can get pretty good protective covers for decorating so it is possible to protect it. What sort of floor are you thinking about?

@Geneticsbunny thinking of Amtico or other lvt.
I had an amtico fitter visit today and he recommended the ufh and flooring in the kitchen go in after / during installation. Not before 😞

Another question- can we put flat bottomed furniture on top of lvt over ufh? Fitter recommended not to. Which means I will either need to pick furniture selectively- with legs rather than flat bottomed, or decide the placement of furniture BEFORE ufh goes in. Seems to be a pain since I wanted flexibility in arranging furniture after the ufh and floor went in.

We don't have any flat bottomed furniture. Not really sure what that would be other than appliances?

Basically if you put anything flat against the floor, the heat will build up and it could theoretically damage the floor or the item of furniture or flooring. We have wooden floors and tiles so out flooring wouldn't get damaged. I would guess with amtico the glue could fail if it gets too hot?