Wet Floor Heating

Floor heating provides an invisible heating solution meaning you no longer have to design your wet room around a bulky cumbersome heater.

Wet floor heating.

Wet rooms are almost always designed with tiled floor and walls which even in warmup areas tend to be cold to the touch. Water underfloor heating typically runs at a lower water temperature than radiators. Underfloor heating is mostly used in ground floor rooms but in reality there is a system to suit any type of floor construction. Wet systems are fed off hot water often heated by a boiler but also work well with renewables such as solar panels or heat pumps.

Underfloor heating comes in two types. Wet systems are most easily installed where it s possible to take up floors or where new floors are being constructed so is likely to suit new extensions conservatories and new open plan kitchen cum living areas. Heating your wet room s floors also provides a greater sense of comfort and wellness to the room. Due to their open spacious nature wet rooms are ideal to be heated with an underfloor heating system.

The harder it is for heat to get through the floor the warmer the water running under it will need to be. Wet which is so called because hot water is pumped through pipes in the floor or dry which is the name used for electric systems that run off the mains. They can also be placed under the floor covering dry system or attached directly to a wood sub floor sub floor system or dry system. Electric heating elements or hydronic piping can be cast in a concrete floor slab poured floor system or wet system.