Any underfloor heating advice would be great!
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Hi folks,
Can anyone advise me on a pending underfloor install in my own home, it is slowly driving me mad!
Just to set the scene, I'm a heating engineer to trade but have zero experience in underfloor heating, we are adding an extension onto to our house to create an open plan living area and have no Intensions of using radiators.
the underfloor will be installed onto a floating floor, I have been in touch with John guest and priced up their underfit board system which was all ok until they tell me that it can't be run in a counter flow pattern, which is what I was hoping to do, due to the layout in the board.
So.... I then got looking into the serpentine vs counter flow layout.I prefer the sound of the counter flow due to the even heat distribution over the serpentine but now second guessing myself and wondering if I'm splitting hairs between the two.
I then began to think of fitting insulation, kingspan or similar, between the joists and then installing the aluminium plate set up instead of using the John guest Underfit boards. Cost does come into eventually but I obviously can't afford to get this wrong.
If anyone has any input or experience in underfloor I''d really appreciate the advice. Locally nobody I know within the trade has installed any. Unfortunate that.....
To sum up my long and very boring thread. Serpentine or counter flow, Does it really matter? John guest underfit or insulation & aluminium plate install?
And just to add.... Can I whack down engineered wood directly on top of the underfloor pipework or is it safer to relay the existing floorboards then cheeky nail the engineered stuff?
God my Friday nights have changed!
Thanks for reading folks.... You may just save me from the local nuthouse!
Martin.
Can anyone advise me on a pending underfloor install in my own home, it is slowly driving me mad!
Just to set the scene, I'm a heating engineer to trade but have zero experience in underfloor heating, we are adding an extension onto to our house to create an open plan living area and have no Intensions of using radiators.
the underfloor will be installed onto a floating floor, I have been in touch with John guest and priced up their underfit board system which was all ok until they tell me that it can't be run in a counter flow pattern, which is what I was hoping to do, due to the layout in the board.
So.... I then got looking into the serpentine vs counter flow layout.I prefer the sound of the counter flow due to the even heat distribution over the serpentine but now second guessing myself and wondering if I'm splitting hairs between the two.
I then began to think of fitting insulation, kingspan or similar, between the joists and then installing the aluminium plate set up instead of using the John guest Underfit boards. Cost does come into eventually but I obviously can't afford to get this wrong.
If anyone has any input or experience in underfloor I''d really appreciate the advice. Locally nobody I know within the trade has installed any. Unfortunate that.....
To sum up my long and very boring thread. Serpentine or counter flow, Does it really matter? John guest underfit or insulation & aluminium plate install?
And just to add.... Can I whack down engineered wood directly on top of the underfloor pipework or is it safer to relay the existing floorboards then cheeky nail the engineered stuff?
God my Friday nights have changed!
Thanks for reading folks.... You may just save me from the local nuthouse!
Martin.
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