ᐅ Underfloor heating: Is laminate or tile flooring warmer underfoot?

Created on: 6 Dec 2018 15:34

Hello,

We are installing underfloor heating in our KfW 55 house and are now considering whether to use tiles or laminate flooring.
Do you have any experience with this?
Which one feels warmer on the feet during summer, and which one in winter?
We don’t want our children to have cold bottoms, but I find carpet too unhygienic.

Thank you very much 🙂!

Tego1217 Dec 2018 11:15

#25

KingSong schrieb:
No, only the proper hydraulic balancing will help there..... then you won't even need your thermostats anymore

He is probably right, a well-balanced system doesn’t have that problem (of course, you can’t have unlimited temperature differences between different rooms) ... and always keeping all the doors closed... is that what you want?!

Lumpi_LE17 Dec 2018 11:16

#26

Exactly, a proper hydraulic balancing, then you can either disconnect the thermostats or turn them fully open.

Egon1217 Dec 2018 11:44

#27

It is described better on another page; you are right if I wanted to have the same temperature everywhere. But I don’t want that, and eventually, we will probably close the doors again 🙂 For now, I’ll just live with the fact that one heating zone is sometimes cold.

Lumpi_LE17 Dec 2018 11:57

#28

Egon12 schrieb:
if I wanted to have the same temperature everywhere

but that has nothing to do with it...
aside from the fact that in a modern house, temperature differences of more than 2-3K are hardly possible anyway.

Nordlys17 Dec 2018 11:59

#29

Cheers to those who still want to live analog. Just a thermostat, and that’s it. And whether one tile is a bit cooler than the other—who cares…

halmi17 Dec 2018 14:16

#30

nordlys, hydraulic balancing has existed since the last millennium as well 😉

ᐅ Underfloor heating: Is laminate or tile flooring warmer underfoot?

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