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JCTucker
Hi
First post, so please bear with me!
We have just had an extension to our house built, together with some renovation and have wet underfloor heating in the extension and some of the existing rooms.
A sand cement screed was laid 3 weeks ago in two living rooms and a utility room. The living rooms can wait (as one is carpet and the other engineered oak), but I am facing a bit of a chicken and egg situation with the utility room.
The new utility room will have a new floor standing boiler on it, together with a hot water tank in a large cupboard along one wall. The utility is fairly small with (3m x 3m). I will be tiling the utility and plan on tiling with slate (max size 300mm x 600mm) and would really like to get the tiles under where the boiler and tank are going to be, and plumber is waiting for this to happen before he gets the boiler in, and therefore commission the UFH.
So from what I understand the order of events would normally be to commission the UFH after 3 weeks, and then once back to ambient temperature, tile the floor, but we can’t commission until the boiler is in!
So what I think I’ll do is to tile just the areas where the boiler and tank are going to be, and then he can get in and put the boiler in, and we can proceed as normal.
I assume you’d also recommend a decoupling membrane as well?
Thanks for your help
First post, so please bear with me!
We have just had an extension to our house built, together with some renovation and have wet underfloor heating in the extension and some of the existing rooms.
A sand cement screed was laid 3 weeks ago in two living rooms and a utility room. The living rooms can wait (as one is carpet and the other engineered oak), but I am facing a bit of a chicken and egg situation with the utility room.
The new utility room will have a new floor standing boiler on it, together with a hot water tank in a large cupboard along one wall. The utility is fairly small with (3m x 3m). I will be tiling the utility and plan on tiling with slate (max size 300mm x 600mm) and would really like to get the tiles under where the boiler and tank are going to be, and plumber is waiting for this to happen before he gets the boiler in, and therefore commission the UFH.
So from what I understand the order of events would normally be to commission the UFH after 3 weeks, and then once back to ambient temperature, tile the floor, but we can’t commission until the boiler is in!
So what I think I’ll do is to tile just the areas where the boiler and tank are going to be, and then he can get in and put the boiler in, and we can proceed as normal.
I assume you’d also recommend a decoupling membrane as well?
Thanks for your help
