Floor coverings for underfloor heating

Hello everyone,

we are planning to equip all rooms in the new house with underfloor heating. Naturally, this immediately raises the question of the suitable floor coverings.
For the bathroom, of course, tiles will be used that will be laid by a professional.

For the underfloor heating, a floor covering with low thermal resistance would certainly be sensible, like tiles or natural stone, which should then be installed by a professional (everything else looks terrible in my opinion). Basically, we would almost prefer laminate or parquet in terms of feel. We have already installed click-laminate in our current apartment, which would of course save us the cost of the tile installer.

But does laminate really make sense on underfloor heating? After the screed, there would still be foil, impact sound insulation (foam), and then plastic/wood. These are all materials that tend to act somewhat as thermal insulators. I don’t want to insulate my heating away.

Thanks for your support.

But does laminate really make sense on underfloor heating?

.. is not a problem ..

Foil, impact sound insulation (foam)

thickness approx. 1mm, where is the problem :eek:, the wood, plastic or laminate or parquet having a higher thermal resistance coefficient than steel, stone and concrete is clear, it just takes a little longer with the heat ...

That's no problem at all! You just have to make sure that the floor coverings are suitable for underfloor heating. Sure, it may take a little longer for laminate and wood to get nicely warm, but once the heat is there, it stays. (Man schaltet ja die Heizung dann nicht mehr so einfach aus, sondern lässt sie laufen)

We have had very good experiences with cork - directly glued onto the screed.

Ok, thanks for your feedback. I just thought that I might reduce the efficiency of the heating too much with laminate/parquet on top. Cork is indeed a nice thing, but too prone to damage for us.

Cork is indeed a nice thing, but too vulnerable for us.

.. oohh, but cats love cork, then you get to lay your cat a new cork floor every year :cool: