ᐅ Is underfloor heating necessary in the shower? What are your thoughts?

There’s some real progress here. Underfloor heating and radiators have now been installed in the basement.

Now we just have to wait for the screed [emoji6]. Let’s see if it will happen next week [emoji848].

However, I don’t understand why the shower area in the guest bathroom has insulation installed slightly deeper and there is no underfloor heating. That area will be tiled. I can understand it for the upper floor with the shower tray. I’ll have to talk to our site manager about this tomorrow.

A deeper drain might be necessary. Of course, having no underfloor heating beneath the shower is not ideal.

Was the underfloor heating ordered beneath the shower?

According to our architect and the tiler, it is common practice not to install underfloor heating in the shower area. It can be done, but it is rather uncommon. We were also told that in some regions with hard water, this can cause problems because the water evaporates too quickly, leading to rapid limescale buildup on the tiles in that area. We’re not sure if this is accurate...

Wickie schrieb:
We were also told that in some areas, due to high lime content in the water, problems can occur because the water evaporates too quickly and the tiles in that area build up scale rapidly. No idea if that’s true...

Just empty talk to get rid of the customer... Water evaporates even without underfloor heating... but with underfloor heating, showering is significantly more comfortable.

That would be new to me as well, and usually we don’t really care about what’s considered “usual.” Of course, the underfloor heating also goes into the shower area, especially in smaller bathrooms where you need that space to help heat the room anyway...