Tag: Underfloor Heating System

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.

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 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.

More and more properties today are being built with underfloor heating. It is becoming standard specification for higher-end homes, but is gradually being used in less expensive homes as well, as it becomes evident that the cost of installing radiator systems and underfloor heating is about the same, but that underfloor heating has several advantages.

If you are undertaking a project and want to install underfloor heating, there are two types of heating system that we can use at UK Screeds. One is an electric system and the other is water-based. Both systems heat the floor of the room and the people and objects within it, as opposed to a radiator system which simply heats the air and actually leads to a lot of waste energy.