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:

• illustrated design & installation guide
• Design guide
• weather compensator

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

http://www.nu-heat.co.uk/

Osma

http://www.osmaufh.co.uk/

Rehau

http://www.rehau.co.uk/building.solutions/underfloor.heating.shtml