About Underfloor Heating

With under-floor heating the heat is where you want it - around you.

The warmest part of an under-floor heated room is the floor and the area immediately above it. The temperature gradually decreases towards the ceiling.

Conventional radiators create warm air that rises to the ceiling only to drop downwards again as a cool draught around your feet – convection heat. Under-floor heating systems provide a much more appropriate pleasant warmth and only produces a very gentle air circulation which varies only slightly from floor to ceiling – radiant heat.

How Underfloor Heating Works

Perfect solution in combination with renewable technologies

Warm water from the heating source is circulated through continuous lengths of pipe embedded in the floor, usually each room has its own circuit and all circuits are connected to a distribution manifold.

Because of its low operating temperatures under-floor heating is the perfect solution in combination with renewable technologies such as the air-to-water heat pump and solar systems but it also can be used with all conventional boilers. A heat pump can run at an astounding 400 - 500% fuel efficiency because free heat is collected rather than fuel burned.

Weather Compensation

This feature utilises the input from sensors to accurately adjust the flow temperature to the floor heating. External, heat pump and mixed flow sensors feed the controller with the information required to make automatic adjustments to a port mixer valve, the valve mixes the flow and return to provide the correct heat input to the building for any given situation. As the rate of heat loss from a building is driven mainly by temperature difference, it follows that when the external temperature rises then less heat is being lost from the building. The compensator responds to this by lowering the flow temperature and in effect allowing less heat into the building. This control system is completely automatic and requires no input from the end user.