Underfloor Heating
The use of warmed floors to heat spaces goes back at least to the Romans who used hypocausts to heat buildings using wood as fuel. Modern Underfloor Heating systems ("UFH") can be designed and installed as part of a wet hydronic Central Heating system or can be separate Electrically heated areas.
The following regards wet CH-based systems:
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.
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