Under Floor Heating/Engineered wood.

Hi guys,

Got a job to do with an water under floor heating system. Plan is engineered oak stuck to 18mm ply with a troweled adhesive. The ply will be fixed onto joists obviously with the heating pipes between them. Does this sound all ok in theory to you? What are the protocols with turning the heating on/off etc? To me it seems like the heat is going to have to do a lot of work before it starts getting into the room, is this a worry for the floor installer or the person installing the UFH i.e. whos's responsibility is it that the heating works as efficiently as desired? And finally is there a set time the room has to get to a pre determined temperature or any similar standards as such?

Cheers

 

Or possibly put kahrs tuplex as an underlay instead of using adhesive?

 

I had a job like that, I tried to find out as much as I could about the ply, temps all that. Ended up losing the job and got called to look at it a few months later and all the boards had splits down the middle! That was a Ted todd board stuck down. Might be safer to float??

 

Yeah possibly..just not sure if a product like tuplex would help or hinder the heat transfer into the room. I would imagine the splits would be down to the UFH being turned on too high too quick

 

Yeah maybe

 

Have you thought about using the aluminium trays that hold pipes hanging
from the joists , then using a 22 engineered nailed to your joists, we use the system a lot under sports floors
And halls with Junckers solid beech
Have some pictures if you want me to post tomorrow

 

cheers may be handy - although got a feeling they may have their heart set on a click system :/

 

What brand of flooring is it ? you can float kahrs on tuplex with UFH no problem.

 

this is what i mean

 

Ah right, got ya. Cheers