How To Install Heated Floors In Concrete

Radiant heating system design or installation mistakes that must be avoided.

How to install heated floors in concrete.

In maine where i ve been working with concrete for 40 years now and this website is where i can share with you all the knowledge and wisdom i ve gained from installing all kinds of decorative concrete concrete floors concrete overlays stained concrete and also fixing cracked or spalled concrete. The workers in the photograph at page top where our concrete slab. How to add floor heating over existing concrete. Hi i am mike day owner of day s concrete floors inc.

While hot water and air based radiant. Mats that include a self leveling gypsum mixture over them is best. You can step onto a warm and inviting floor even one built on a concrete slab by adding in floor heating. Cerazorb is a 3 16 inch 5 mm thin synthetic cork underlayment that is highly recommended when installing a floor heating system over an existing concrete slab or under tile and stone.

Let it dry the appropriate length of time then cover it with flooring as if you were installing the flooring over a concrete base. This article explains how to avoid some fatal mistakes when installing radiant heat in a concrete floor slab by describing an incompetent radiant heat floor installation along with an explanation of why things went wrong and how to avoid these errors.