ᐅ Which Type of Flooring Is Best for a New Build with Underfloor Heating?
Created on: 28 Jun 2022 12:30
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Pacc666
Hello,
we are looking for suitable flooring for the upper floors.
In the basement and ground floor, the builder will install tiles throughout.
On the first and attic floors, we want to lay the flooring ourselves.
We are looking for a floor that can be installed easily without much experience (I assume it will be a floating floor).
The flooring should be compatible with underfloor heating, meaning it should absorb and distribute heat well. It should also feel pleasantly warm underfoot.
The rooms are bedrooms, a dressing room, and children’s rooms.
The floor should also be durable (not easily scratched or damaged). We don’t have children yet, but one is planned in the future, and the floor should also withstand a larger dog (around 40-50 kg (90-110 lbs)) running across with its claws.
Which type of flooring would you recommend?
Wood flooring? (expensive and sensitive)
Laminate? (with commercial wear rating)
Vinyl?
What about the new bio flooring?
It is advertised as very durable and made from natural raw materials.
Is bio flooring a new alternative to wood flooring, laminate, or vinyl? Or is it just marketing and an unnecessarily expensive product?
we are looking for suitable flooring for the upper floors.
In the basement and ground floor, the builder will install tiles throughout.
On the first and attic floors, we want to lay the flooring ourselves.
We are looking for a floor that can be installed easily without much experience (I assume it will be a floating floor).
The flooring should be compatible with underfloor heating, meaning it should absorb and distribute heat well. It should also feel pleasantly warm underfoot.
The rooms are bedrooms, a dressing room, and children’s rooms.
The floor should also be durable (not easily scratched or damaged). We don’t have children yet, but one is planned in the future, and the floor should also withstand a larger dog (around 40-50 kg (90-110 lbs)) running across with its claws.
Which type of flooring would you recommend?
Wood flooring? (expensive and sensitive)
Laminate? (with commercial wear rating)
Vinyl?
What about the new bio flooring?
It is advertised as very durable and made from natural raw materials.
Is bio flooring a new alternative to wood flooring, laminate, or vinyl? Or is it just marketing and an unnecessarily expensive product?
RotorMotor schrieb:
We have now been living with "Bio Vinyl" for half a yearAnd what exactly is this Bio Vinyl? Why is it called Bio? Or was it rather Vegan Vinyl? 😉W
WilderSueden11 Sep 2022 09:44SaniererNRW123 schrieb:
It doesn’t matter at all whether it’s vinyl, tiles, or hardwood. For all I care, it could even be glued newspaper or ribbed metal sheets. Underfloor heating is always slow to respond. And cooling works everywhere – condensation is unpleasant on both hardwood and vinyl.
I prefer natural materials, so I go for hardwood. In the end, personal comfort is what counts, as well as the wallet, of course. I’m just imagining Mandy and Chantal from page 1 showing up all over the living room :/
So far, we don’t have underfloor cooling yet; I postponed that as a possible retrofit to avoid using up the buffer before final selections. That turned out to be a pretty good decision. I like real wood in itself, but the flooring stands out price-wise from the rest of the standard. The price from the building materials supplier seems reasonable, marked at around 100€ (about $110), and there seems to be a promotion that requires a formal offer. The cheapest online price was 97€ (about $106), most are higher.
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RotorMotor11 Sep 2022 10:13ypg schrieb:
And what is this Bio Vinyl supposed to be? Why does it get a "Bio" label? Or was it actually Vegan Vinyl? 😉Because it is made from plant oil instead of petroleum. It also contains no PVC or phthalates.RotorMotor schrieb:
Because it is made from vegetable oil, not petroleum. 😉
It also contains no PVC or phthalates. That used to be called linoleum when I was younger. Wow, I’m really getting old!
WilderSueden schrieb:
Underfloor heating with glued parquet is probably slow to respond but still acceptable. But what about underfloor cooling? Not a problem at all, and it works just as well—or just as poorly—in reverse. We have parquet flooring and underfloor cooling throughout, and we’re happy with both. Just last week, after the cooling was switched off at the end of August, there were one or two warmer days again, and my wife felt hot. She complained that she definitely missed the underfloor cooling 🙂
I argued that it wasn’t too warm and that more rainy days and cooler weather would follow in the next few days. If I turned the cooling on, you wouldn’t notice it for at least 24 hours anyway...
Long story short, I turned it on and was surprised to feel noticeable coolness in the floor everywhere just two hours later. It was faster and more distinct in the tiled rooms (bathrooms, utility room), but the cooling was also noticeable in all other parquet rooms and reached the desired setpoint temperature by the next morning.
WilderSueden schrieb:
I’ll join in here. Today we had the tile selection appointment (easy, went quickly) and flooring (long and exhausting). Originally, we planned glued vinyl because of the usual reasons: durable, good conductivity, and not too expensive. Then the salesperson mentioned that vinyl might be sensitive to heat from strong sunlight... and then my partner remembered that vinyl is plastic and not really great... so the discussion went back and forth... I definitely don’t want tiles that look like tiles in the living room, and wood-look tiles are already around 100€ (about $110), so you might as well go for hardwood flooring... Now we’re completely open on the direction. Either as planned with vinyl and Vinylan Noble Chestnut for about 40€ (around $44) or Kährs Oak Domo for about 100€ (around $110) plus possibly an extra charge for installation. The vinyl is pretty sturdy and might handle our toddler driving the push car through the Duplo mess. For me, heating and cooling are still a bit unclear. Vinyl conducts heat well, so no problem there. Underfloor heating with glued hardwood is probably slow to react but still okay. But what about underfloor cooling?Our parquet installer considers underfloor cooling generally acceptable but recommends not running it for longer than two to three weeks at a time and installing moisture and temperature sensors. For similar reasons as described here (child and dog), we decided on natural stone-look tiles on the ground floor. We avoided wood-look because of the “wrong” feel. In hindsight, we think it would have been best to follow the architect’s suggestion to sand and seal the screed. However, that doesn’t save money!
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