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Electric Underfloor Mat

  • 06-09-2009 12:16pm
    #1
    fitzie79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭


    My better half wants to install some electric underfloor mats in the en-suite and bathroom. The mats wont be used to heat the rooms as we have radiators in them but are purely as a luxury so that you dont feel cold tiles under your feet. My only concern with them is that I don't want to be heating the large concrete slab as well as the tiles. We don't have underfloor heating so the insulation is under a lot of concrete. I want to put insulation under the mats but dont want anything that is too thick as it would cause a step in the floor height. I went around to a few builders providers yesterday looking for something suitable but couldn't find anything. One suggested using the foil backed foam that is used for wooden floors but i'd be concerned that this would burn/melt. A tile shop that sells the mats had a foam based insulation board but it was 1inch thick. (It was also €85 for 2 m2 :eek:) The other alternative I was thinking of was simply putting a sheet of marine plyboard under the mat.

    Has anyone got any suggestions on any suitable products?


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  • #2
    BIMP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭BIMP


    The heat must heat whats underneath before it goes up and heats your tiles. That 1 inch insulation board must be installed really. Because you never factored in the underfloor mat when room was designed originally, you are gonna have a step as you enter. There is no way around it really and to be honest you wont notice step after few weeks


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