Month: September 2020

When it comes to underfloor heating when you are building a new home, you have choices. Not only can you choose the type of heating that you use, but you can also obviously choose the sort of final flooring that you want int the house. However, there are a number of different things to take into consideration.

When constructing any type of building, one of the most important factors is the floor. Certainly, the walls and roof are of vital importance, but equally important is the floor because that is going to take all the traffic, whether it is foot traffic, which it will be in most buildings, but can also be heavier, such as forklift trucks in a warehouse.

When you are building a new home there are many different things to take into consideration. One of these is the method of heating it. For hundreds of years, homes were heated using fires, and indeed this was the case for many homes up until the 1960’s and beyond.

There is no law that says that you have to use a floor screed in the construction of a building, but if you want a floor that is perfectly flat and level, then you need one.

At UK Screeds we are specialists in the installation of liquid screed in order to provide the finest flat and level base for any type of final flooring that is required in a new construction, or for that matter in a refurbishment.

Liquid floor screeds have greatly increased in popularity over the last few years as they have so many advantages over the traditional sand and cement screeds. To begin with, they are very easy and quick to lay, as they are delivered to site ready mixed and simply pumped into position with a pump and long hose. Because they are in liquid form they flow into position and fill up any gaps or voids, which makes them particularly suitable when underfloor heating is being installed, since they will totally envelop the heating pipes. This makes for excellent thermal conductivity.