Wood-look Porcelain Floors with Radiant Heat
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Comments (1)Here is an amazing blog that can clear up many radiant heating questions. See if this helps! Here is a link that might be useful: Radiant Floor Heating...See Moreradiant heat/wood flooring
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Comments (18)If you want the STRONG GREY colours shown in your photos, you will need to work with factory finished. If you like the liming or cerusing effect (the white in the grain) then you will need to work with the factory finish. I've heard of a small handful of HIGH-END professionals who can achieve these looks on a site-finished floor. If you think that the population of the US+Canada is around 375,000,000 that is a SMALL amount of humans....like 100-150 professionals who can handle a job like that. Imagine the price tag! We will see this level of workmanship on $25Mill homes. The price of the professional is not at issue in a home that has multiple millions of dollars in financial backing. I understand your Project Manager's concerns. Repairing damage to a factory finished floor isn't fun...but it isn't difficult either. The worst case scenario = cut out the plank and drop another one in. A bit of glue...a bit of waiting and everyone's happy. I'm not sure why the push back is so hard (the PM has probably had something go wrong in the past and had it bite him/her in the arse pretty hard). So long as you assure him/her that you will pay for all the damage control (ram board, etc) you should be fine....See MoreDoes radiant heat work well under engineered wood flooring?
Comments (1)The issue normally isn't the 'engineered' part that is the problem. It is the wood part. It sounds like you are adding ELECTRICAL in-floor radiant heat. If you are, then wood is normally a no-no. The vast majority of wood manufactures do NOT allow their product over ELECTRIC in-floor heat. They are allowed over the more expensive HYDRONIC heating (tubing filled with water/oil/gel). Why not electrical? Because wood can burst into flames if heated 'too much'. The 'fire hazard' thing is real when it comes to electric wires (ahem...they are exposed wires....that's how they generate heat). Yes I understand you will be SINKING the wires into cement. Yep. Got it. To get away from the FIRE HAZARD you would need about 1" worth of cement sitting on top of the wires. If your home's flooring set up can handle that type of increase then go for it (check the clearance on the doors, base trim, exit and entrances, top of stairs...etc). That will reduce the chances of a fire hazard (lots of thermal mass for the heat to warm up = lower chance of wood spontaneously combusting). But the warranty on the wood is *probably void. Not always....but the majority of the time it is. For me, wood over electric heating = waste of money. It sounds like the heating in the home is provided by some other source and the in-floor heating is just to warm the toes and the tile. Skip the $10/sf upgrade (that would include the 1" of concrete on top...just sayin') and go ahead and upgrade your HVAC system to handle the home's square footage. It will be a little cheaper and will cost you less in the long run (because an upgrade often means HIGH EFFICIENCY model)....See Moreelistro
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