| You can buy underfloor heating which works in | | | | 2) Forced Air Underfloor Heating, as used by the |
| three different ways to heat your home; | | | | Romans this is the first and original form of |
| 1) Electrical Underfloor Heating which is laid under | | | | heating under floor recorded by man. Forced air |
| the flooring of your home. This type of underfloor | | | | under floor heating quickly spread throughout the |
| heating systems element is built in a similar way | | | | early Roman Empire due to its excellent results |
| to a kettles, an electrical current runs along a | | | | for heating. |
| conductive cable which is laid under the flooring, | | | | The way that forced air heating works is by |
| this then heats up and the heat is evenly passed | | | | passing heated air through a series of under floor |
| out around the room. | | | | ducts which are heated by air in a furnace, these |
| This process of electrical heating is often maid up | | | | ducts then heat the floor. The same as a |
| of a continuous wire heating cable laid out under | | | | conventional heating system a thermostat would |
| the main floor boards on to the sub flooring, sub | | | | control the temperature. |
| flooring is the insulation board laid under the main | | | | 3) Hydronic Underfloor Heating is a process of low |
| floor surface. This electrical heating wire cable is | | | | pressure warm water being pumped around |
| often laid around the room in any random patten, | | | | concealed pipe loops installed under your flooring. |
| covering the whole sub flooring area. Electrical | | | | These are just as easy to install as the other |
| underfloor heating also comes in an electrical mat | | | | types of under floor heating, whether it be on a |
| form, which is laid on the sub flooring under your | | | | new building or a building refurbishment project. |
| main floor surface and works in a similar way, | | | | Central heating systems are often used to utilize |
| just with the wire elements within the matting, | | | | the hot water used in wet heating systems under |
| making it a cleaner install and less messy wiring | | | | the floor. The more cost effective solutions for |
| process. | | | | this is a condensing boiler as these are well suited |
| Electrical underfloor heating is often controlled by | | | | to power wet underfloor heating systems. |
| a series of Thermostats which can control the | | | | Hydronic under floor heating systems are more |
| rooms temperature, these would normally be | | | | comfortable then radiators as they evenly spread |
| installed with one in each room so different | | | | a much lower temperature out the whole flooring |
| temperatures can be set. This is know as a room | | | | area unlike a radiator and some other heating |
| zone and will show as this on all digital | | | | systems. |
| thermostats. | | | | |