Month: July 2021

When it comes to heating your home, there are a number of ways to do it in the 21st century. Obviously, you can use a gas boiler or an electrically heated boiler. You can also have an oil-fired boiler to do the same job.

When you are in the process of constructing a building, one of the things that it will have is flooring upon which people can walk, or in the case of a warehouse or factory, on which vehicles such as a forklift truck may be driven. Either way, you want the final floor surface to be as flat and smooth as possible, and the way to achieve that is to lay a screed on top of the substrate.

If you are building a new home from scratch, or for that matter any other building, it makes perfect sense to install underfloor heating as you go. Underfloor heating has many advantages over and above a traditional radiator system, not the least of which is the long-term running costs. There are advantages for the environment and advantages for your pocket.

If you are in the course of building a new property from scratch, then you would be wise to include underfloor heating rather than using a radiator system. There are many advantages to underfloor heating, not the least of which is that you save as much as 10% of the space in the room that would be taken up by a radiator system and the pipework.

If you are like most people, and you are looking for a new home, you probably already have an idea of what your dream home would look like. However, finding your dream home may prove very difficult when push comes to shove, and even if you do, it may well be out of your price range.

Underfloor heating systems are being installed more and more in new build homes today as it has come to be realised that they provide several benefits over a radiator system. However, underfloor heating is nothing new: the Romans were using it 2,000 years ago by having trenches dug into floors and covering them with stone, heating from strategically placed fires.

Some years ago, underfloor heating was regarded as something for only high-end homes, as it was deemed expensive to install and run. So, most new build homes from the 1960s onwards have been heated using a radiator system. Certainly, if you use an electric underfloor heating system it can be expensive to run because electricity tariffs can be high. Electric systems are quite cheap to install though.