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    UK Electric underfloor heating onto concrete floor.

    I have a customer who lives in a 200 year old property. The lounge floor he wants tiled which is very thick concrete. He wants electric underfloor heating but I'm concerned he'll lose too much heat into the concrete. He's gone with tumbled modular limestone and the floor is quite wavy which...
  2. r1chy0

    Best low profile electric underfloor heating system for tiles UK

    Hi there, hoping for some help here. I am about to install a small (2.2x2.5m approx) area of tiles in our utility. I am using 900x900x10 tiles and ideally would like to keep the junction with our kitchen floor (engineered wood) as flush as possible. That means there is approx 15mm depth to play...
  3. Steve_Bcs

    Porcelain Hollows over underfloor heating

    Hi All I am after some advice please. We have a retrofit undefloor heating system ( Robbens Profilow 15) which was laid on a rather uneven floor. We had 4 rooms knocked into a large kitchen dining living area approx 50 sq m. I can tile myslef to a reasonable standard and have used this forum...
  4. T

    Best timber floor base

    I'm about to start on an upstairs wetroom. There will be wet underfloor heating going in via spreader plates. The former will be a 22mm maxxus. Current joists are 7" at ~420 centres. 3x3m room. As all the floor boards will be getting ripped out I'm unsure what the best material to put back down...
  5. N

    Really stuck! Underfloor heating Q in wetroom!

    I am sure someone will know a good practice solution. We started a wetroom last year and then fracture my wrist badly so it's been left in a state of limbo. We have removed the temporary fixed loo, bath and sink to continue and have children so need to sort a way forward quickly. Builder had put...
  6. P

    Hollow tiles with water underfloor heating

    We had a water underfloor heating installed and tiled over. 3 months later we noticed many tiles sound hollow. We worry this can signal future problems. More details on our floor: water underfloor heating system fitted on XPS Overlay Lite Boards, laid on top of self-levelling porcelain tiles...
  7. G

    Electric underfloor heating first time use

    Hi guys, Hope you are all having a fantastic Xmas. To cut a long story short I have installed electric underfloor heating wires under large format tiles (600x600) using ditra heat duo membrane as per manufactures instructions etc. My question is how do I switch on the floor heating on for...
  8. IsmailYPatel

    Underfloor heating screed with Grano

    Hi. I'm after some advice. Need to screed above my underfloor heating pipes. Some rooms have overlay boards and some rooms have new concrete and the floor will be chased/milled out for pipes to go in. Is it possible to make screed with grano, sand, lime, concrete fibres and cement? Make a wet...
  9. J

    Possible to turn underfloor heating on low while tiling due to cold?

    Tiling a new extension. Cement poured screed on piped underfloor heating. Heating has been commissioned, and turned off 48 hours before tiling. Fracture matting laid across all floor and started to tile. But its so cold in here, the tiles I laid 2 days ago (customer supplied standard set S1...
  10. P

    Wet underfloor heating and Karndean/Amtico flooring

    Hi All, I'm new to the forum and not in the trade, so please excuse my ignorance. I'm looking to install wet underfloor heating using polypipe overlay plus system (18mm) and then looking to finish with a karndean/Amtico floor finish. I need some advice on: what goes on top of the underfloor...
  11. A

    Insulation boards, which to use?

    I need to fit some insulate boards to a room before self leveling over the top of the boards to level the floor to the same height as adjoining floor. Both floors will then have a piped hot water underfloor heating system fitted which will be screeded again before laying either tiles or...
  12. M

    Subfloor for underfloor heating

    Hello. We're going to be installing large limestone tiles with wet underfloor heating in our kitchen/living area of the house. At the moment it's gutted and we have the opportunity to start from scratch as we're back to the joists. I'm looking to tile on to either 18mm routed cement boards or...
  13. E

    Unipipe underfloor heating

    Hi guys, anyone tiled over this product? It’s polystyrene grooved product that heating pipes run through over laid with a metal fibred strong board. New product to me and would like any advice or procedures req prior to tiling. Can’t seem to find any info on it.
  14. Viv Subra

    Turkish Tiles vs Indian Tiles for underfloor heating

    Hi, I was advised by my builder to get spanish or turkish tiles for my 100 sq floor. I bought thinking I am getting Turkish porcelain tiles, however I received Indian porcelain tiles instead. My builder is not sure about the Indian tiles for underfloor heating. The Tiles company claims that...
  15. Dan

    uHeat Sponsorship of Forums Gets Renewed Once Again

    uHeat and TilersForums.com go Way Back - And Continue to Partner-up to Bring You Savings on Electric and Water Underfloor Heating Quite some time ago the founder of TilersForums.com ran a tiling training centre in Staffordshire, and sold electric underfloor heating there, mainly to the course...
  16. TSCTILING

    Foil backed underfloor heating board. Can I tile?

    Does anyone know of a foil backed board for underfloor heating, (with the inserts for white hot water pipes) that's suitable for tiling? I've said no but they (contractor) insist it's ok providing the primer is allowed to dry for 24hours, so against my better judgement I have primed Saturday...
  17. E

    underfloor heating.

    Isn't it about time we stop installing wired underfloor heating? Despite best practise, it always fails. It always does. It might last 10 years. The likelihood it lasts about three. Seems like a complete waste of time.
  18. R

    Looking for Tiler in South Buckinghamshire to Tile a Kitchen Floor and Fit Electrical Underfloor Heating

    Looking for a tiler to lay a Kitchen Floor with 60x60 porcelain tiles. Floor is a screed concrete. Floor area is aprox. 22m2. We would like to have electrical underfloor heating installed at the same time. Any recommendations are very welcome. Job can start at any time. The sooner the better...
  19. L

    Floor tiles on EPS underfloor boards - some questions

    Hi All I'm planning the tiling of our kitchen floor with 600x600 rectified 9mm thick porcelain tiles onto retrofit underfloor boards made of high density EPS/polystyrene with an aluminium foil top surface (Wundatherm Premium+). According to the manufacturer, tiles can be laid directly on these...
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    Underfloor heating

    Travertine tiling on a screed that has piped underfloor heating. Im using an s2 adhesive but should I overlay with Ditra 25 as a precaution?
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