Hello Comrades - Preamble first: my contractor has fitted the joists (over a layer of DPM in a tanked basement), fitted the 90mm PIR insulation between the joists (the insulation sits on battens fixed to the joists), and laid 18mm flooring chipboard. The ufh wil be installed late February: water carrying pipes held with grip rails and covered over with 8:1 dry biscuit mix (25mm thickness) with 25 x 50 battens (400mm spaces between each batten) running parallel with the ufh pipes to help take some of the pedestrian traffic pressure off the engineered wood flooring. The contractor has been in touch with his architect pal who he helps out here and there and the architect says to him "By the way, be careful: some engineered wood flooring is not compatible with ufh." He didn't contribute anything more than this; the contactor didn't pin him down on what the criteria were for choosing the right engineered wood flooring, so he isn't in the know on this subject either.
I've been trawling the web but can find nothing illuminating on the subject, though that might be due to my poor ability to choose the best search terms. Can anyone offer any enlightening information? Is it the glue that bonds the ply which might respond badly to heat? That's the only thing I can think of that would be the reason for the architect's concern.
I've been trawling the web but can find nothing illuminating on the subject, though that might be due to my poor ability to choose the best search terms. Can anyone offer any enlightening information? Is it the glue that bonds the ply which might respond badly to heat? That's the only thing I can think of that would be the reason for the architect's concern.
