Tiles or wooden floor on underfloor heating ?

fullirish

Im putting in underfloor heating and I was in a tile shop and they were saying it was better for heat transference into the room if the floor with underfloor heating was topped off with tile - not laminate wood as the wood floor was more of a floating floor and would dminish the effectiveness of the underfloor heating - is this true ?

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fullirish

rodge68

I find tiles alot wamer..just might not look as good..just my own experience !

Courtn2

Yep, we have tiles and solid wood floors- even with the solid there's a noticeable difference(worse). laminates are worse again. It's down to conduction of heat through the material. If the room will be warm anyway, then you could prob get away with solid/semisolid but I 'd guess it would be wasted on laminates

V0X

Tiles are better for transferring heat. Wood floors do work although are not as good as tiles. If using engineered wood flooring it has been pointed out to us not to go any thicker than 15mm.

I prefer wood flooring so am happy to take the performance hit.

fullirish

Thanks all, would prefer wood myself by will probably go for tile...

thanks

Stev3

I was told there is no issue with laminate.

BarneyMc

Depends on what response you want/need I suppose. Some might prefer a slow, gradual release of heat.