Underfloor Heating
Suppliers
Uponor
Uponor (formerly Wirsbo) are long-established suppliers of UFH.
Their web site's pages carry the now-common indication of the path through the document tree to the current page e.g.
Products > Underfloor Heating > PEX 15 Pipe but you can't always get further along the path from a given page! Instead you have to use the pop-up menus from the navigation bar on the left of the page. |
Requires (free) registration for PDF datasheet downloads including:
Uponor supports installation in screeded solid floors, suspended floors with spreader plates or with their proprietary system using metallised bubble-wrap backing, and floating floors with 50mm panels.
Hepworth
Hepworth (formerly Bartol) are another long-established supplier of UFH in the UK.
UFH Guides avalable as PDFs including:
- floor construction
- floor layouts
- training guide 'benefits' and installation practise
Supports solid, suspended and floating floors.
Polypipe
Polypipe UFH systems (widely available in DIY outlets e.g. B&Q)
Floor types supported include overlay 18mm thick using 12mm pipe.
John Guest
(Makers of Speedfit).
Their UFH web page gives a comprehensive guide to:
- basics of UFH
- solid floor construction
- design principles
- controls
- heatloss (with R values for different surface finishes)
- pipe layout
- output tables
- installation practise
Nu-Heat
Osma
Rehau
http://www.rehau.co.uk/building.solutions/underfloor.heating.shtml