It is possible to install wood flooring onto a conventional hot water or electric heating systems. However, if it is not controlled properly, it can cause problems. The majority of manufacturers who make wood flooring that is suitable for underfloor heating, do so on the proviso that the sub-floor surface temperature must not exceed 27 degrees C. Exceeding this temperature will increase the risk of excessive shrinkage, opening linear splits and cracks, and possible de-lamination of the hardwood wear layer.
Cupping or dishing in solid wooden means the boards raise slightly at their edges making the wooden flooring uneven across its width. The cause of cupping is an imbalance of moisture through the timber. This can be a result of a spillage on the floor, or because of the hardwood flooring gaining moisture from the sub-floor material. There are ways to avoid cupping in a solid woiod floor when you understand the causes.
One of the best ways to improve the look and value of your home is to install real hardwood flooring throughout. As well as being beautiful and hard wearing, they are environmentally friendly as well. Wood is a natural resource that is both renewable and recyclable. It is warm and resilient to walk on and healthy too. Usually wood flooring will never require replacement and can add thousands of pounds to the value of a home.
Thermatec electric under-floor heating system is ideal for any type of engineered hardwood floors, laminate floors, and even some solid wood floors. Normal methods of installing electric under floor heating systems in rooms with wooden or laminate flooring involved using cable systems covered with difficult to use and time consuming liquid leveling compounds.
There is a common belief that wooden floors are cold and noisy. This idea stems from the fact that original wood floorboards in older badly insulated houses were in fact cold and draughty . However this was in the days of cellars, coal fires, gapping floorboards and solid walls.
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