Altai
2019-05-21 10:18:43
- #1
It has to be clear: The warmer a floor feels underfoot in an unheated state, the worse it conducts heat (that's why it feels warm) and is consequently less suitable for underfloor heating.
Basically, that’s also the conclusion of my half-sleepless night.
It’s a dilemma you can’t escape. You have the heating running half the year, during which the floor should conduct well, and the other half of the year it’s exactly the opposite.
I’ve also done some googling in the meantime and found several texts that clearly advise against cork for underfloor heating.
The intended floor would have had a cork intermediate layer of 2.7mm thickness, so thickness comparable to the wood layer of the parquet. That this should now mean a heating disaster seems hard to imagine, but anyway.
Well, what about the original idea and parquet??