Underfloor heating
How it works
Underfloor heating works with hot water supplied by your boiler or other heating source (i.e. solar thermal panels) moving through a concrete slab under your floor boards. This water moves through plastic pipes. This heats the slab and provides comfortable heat throughout the area in which it is installed.
Benefits
Utilising today's modern multilayer pipes, control systems and high efficiency boilers, the underfloor heating systems of today is extremely comfortable and controllable. Radiators are no longer needed so giving more room space. The heat is more evenly distributed and dust is not circulated.
Underfloor heating from the whole floor area of the house gently warms the air above, eliminating cold spots. The warm air moves from the floor surface losing approximately 2 degrees centigrade at 2.0 meters above the floor, which makes the system ideal for all ceiling heights.
Independent tests reveal that the most acceptable indoor climate is one in which the floor temperature ranges between 19-29°C and the air temperature at head level ranges between 20 and 24°C. With radiator or convector heating systems a vertical temperature gradient is produced; colder at foot level than at the head.
Underfloor heating has made it possible to reduce energy consumption by using low water temperatures. These systems, based on the development of complex and very high quality plastic pipe, such as the multilayer pipe, now account for over 60% of some European heating markets. With a Solar Thermal system you can benefit from the heat generated and stored by the panels to lower your heating energy requirement for underfloor heating.
FAQ’s
Isn’t underfloor heating electric?
Electric underfloor heating is available but ReGen believes this version of underfloor heating is more costly than a radiator system. It has many maintenance problems and since we are an environmentally conscience company we will not engage in cheap fixes that do not provide a quality solution for our customers or the environment.
How much does it cost? Each project is very individual. If you are interested please give us a call and we will arrange a free quote.
Can I install it in my existing home?
Underfloor heating is best installed when you are doing a renovation to your home due to the fact that we would remove the floor in order to install it. If you are going on holiday or can accept the loss of the area we will be installing in then we can install the system in almost every home, new or old.
