Carpets For Ufh

Home underfloor heating the best flooring for underfloor heating carpet rugs with ufh.

Carpets for ufh.

Our 80 wool 20 nylon carpets have a tog value somewhere between 1 4 and 2 3. Does underfloor heating work with carpets. That is one of the most common questions plumbers and builders are asked along with which carpet is best for underfloor heating and we are then asked by people that want the luxury and efficiency of a warm water underfloor heating system. The best flooring for underfloor heating is one that efficiently transfers heat from the ufh to the surface of the floor.

The assumption is that because a carpet insulates it will prevent an underfloor heating system from. Carpet acts as a thermal insulator put simply this means that carpeted flooring takes slightly longer to heat up initially but stays warm longer. Underfloor heating can be used with most types of carpet. This showed that a carpet underlay with a combined thermal resistance of less than 2 5 togs allows underfloor systems to operate efficiently.

Carpet rugs with ufh. The combined laboratory tested thermal resistance of these was in the range 2 6 3 4 tog. The tog value is displayed on each of our carpet pages and on our tog values page. Hard surfaces like stone or ceramic tiles or engineered wood offer the best heat transfer as they are the most thermally conductive but many other options work well.