More and more people today who are having a new home built, or who may be homebuilders, are opting to install underfloor heating, and with good reason.

There is nothing new about underfloor heating. It was most certainly in use in Roman times, and there is some argument that it can be traced back a lot farther than that. The Romans didn’t have the benefit of the heating systems that we have today, but they had voids cut into the floor of homes and heated the air using strategically placed fires.

When you are installing underfloor heating in a property it is always a great idea to install insulation boards. These can be obtained in different thicknesses and are installed on top of the substrate before any heating system is put into place. They work by having low conductivity and this prevents the thermal mass from escaping downwards, thus reducing the amount of heat absorbed by the subfloor. Instead, the heat goes upwards into the floor of the room which is where you want it to go. It allows the heating system to warm up the floor and the room faster, which in turn conserves energy and reduces heating bills.

If you are going to install underfloor heating in a new building, or even in a refurbishment project, it will need to be screeded. However, before you can lay a screed there are several processes that need to be undertaken in order to install the underfloor heating correctly and to produce the most efficient form of heat transfer to a room.

If you are going to lay flooring in a building, and most people do (!), it obviously needs to be as flat as possible for people to walk on, perhaps push a push-chair over, or maybe you are building a skate park and people are going to skate on the final floor, but whatever, it needs to be flat.

That is a fair enough question when you are constructing a new building, or even renovating an old one.

Let’s take a look at laying a new lawn. If you had just moved into a property, or had one built, and you wanted a beautiful green lawn with those lovely stripes, where you could sit all afternoon on a sunny day relaxing on a recliner, you would want that lawn flat.

More and more people today are considering installing underfloor heating in a new-build home because of the many advantages that it has over a radiator system.

When creating any form of flooring, whether it is indoors or outdoors, the ultimate aim is always for it to be as flat and level as possible. This applies whether you are installing flooring in a home, in a public building, on a patio, or even in a car park being built for a new shopping centre.

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Sometimes in the business of housebuilding, a way of doing things that has been the same for years may suddenly change. It doesn’t happen all that often, because builders are notoriously reluctant to change when things have worked well for years and only tend to do so if there are possible cost or time-savings, or if they are compelled to do so by changes in the law or by architects who have latched on to a new process.