Detailed Product Description

These are excellent floor materials for a nice-looking and comfortable floor to walk on, especially when you have a warmfloor underneath. There are, how-ever, considerations to be taken as wood is a live material: The relative humidity in the room and material demands a special attention. The underfloor heating must maintain a low and even temperature. Special consideration must also be taken where the floor is placed directly on the ground to avoid moisture. In some cases there would be an advantage to have some heat on throughout the whole year.

There is a variation between the sorts and types of wooden floors. How much they move should be checked before purchase. It is very important that the materials acclimatize in the room before laid down. When covering the floor with carpets, bookshelves and other furniture, one should be aware that the temperature increases substantially underneath when constant heating sources is installed. The SMW element is the most gentle heating source for wooden floors because of the low temperature, even heating and the self-regulation.

CERAMIC TILES

Ceramic tiles is a heat-conducting material that is eminently suitable for underfloor heating. It is important that the mechanical construction is of "sandwich" type where all layers stick together. All materials used must be adapted to each other -also chemically. Compounds and tile adhesive must be flexible. Some products can be used directly onto the heating element which will give a minimal building height.

When the SMW warmfloor is used in a wet or damp room, a membrane must always be placed above the heating elements.

CARPETS AND VINYL FLOORING

This is also an application where SMW warmfloor is suit able. To get a nice-looking floor there must be a covering above the heating element to get an even surface before a carpet or vinyl can be installed. This must either be a self-levelling compound (flexible) or a wooden sheet. The thickness of these depends on the underlying floor.