Anyone installed under floor heating on a timber joist suspended floor?
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@Wifiwits Yes! Used insulating block panels specifically manuf’d for the purpose & fixed between joists.
@guardeddon How’s it worked out? What system flow temperature are you running at? Looking at how to do this in a refurb, though it’s looking like we’re planning to replace all the joists as we don’t expect them to be very good.
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In a previous house, laid underfloor in an extenstion I built. It had a high vaulted ceiling so u/floor was practical option.
The room had its own stat & the boiler (oil) was fired thru an ‘OR’ circuit sharing supply to water tank & rads in rest of house. Underfloor circuit was tee’d off’with circulation valves plus had a temp mix valve in the circuit. Set back temp at 16°. Helped by James at Commercial Connections nr Crossgar.
At that time I wasn’t overly concerned with fuel prices so wasn’t tracking cost change.
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I can’t recall the exact flow temp, high 30s/low 40s. Easy to adjust with the return mix valve.
Mine was ground floor, for me it was simpler/faster to suspend the floor as it was solid beech. Didn’t need to wait weeks for a finished slab to dry out. Laser levelled the ‘joists’ floating on saddles so the contct between insulation blocks/spreader plates was sound.
