How To Install In Floor Heating Over Concrete

Connect the plastic tubing to a pump which is connected to a separate water heater that circulates hot water through the tubing.

How to install in floor heating over concrete.

In bathrooms and kitchens install a moisture barrier to protect the gypsum. A google search on atlas rboard will bring up their site and the product info. Insert flexible plastic tubing into the track. The heating contractor laid out the pex tubing according to the zones that were established for heating the home.

Let it dry the appropriate length of time then cover it with flooring as if you were installing the flooring over a concrete base. Installing pex tubing in a concrete slab is one of the easiest ways to install radiant heat. Mats that include a self leveling gypsum mixture over them is best. The heat from the radiant heated floor rises to heat all surfaces in a room or home.

In the united states you can heat under carpet using a floor warming roll or mat made from reinforced laminated aluminum foil with cable spaced 2 inches apart. The pex tubes were attached to wire mesh using zip ties. The picture above shows a concrete floor we re about to pour with radiant heating tubes installed. Radiant heat warms a floor s surface through electric mats or water tubing installed on the surface of a concrete floor and encased in an additional thin layer of concrete or thinset.

When installed in a concrete slab radiant underfloor heating is. Make sure your concrete has completely cured before you lay down your in floor heating mat. For a thermofin u installation on concrete you would build a surface to be able to screw the plates into by first putting down a layer of atlas rboard recommended 1 2 which you should be able to get from your local building supplier. Instead you should turn to electric floor heating to warm up that cold concrete slab.

Screw down a track with precut grooves for plastic tubing to the plywood subfloor.