Best Flooring To Put Over Radiant Heat

If you ve installed radiant heating in your home you may wonder what type of floor can be installed over it.

Best flooring to put over radiant heat.

Visit a local floor dealer of mirage hardwood or some other great quality brand of hardwood and ask the associate which floors are allowed over radiant heat. For tile marble or stone floors our embedded tempzone products available in rolls mats and cables are the best choice. Engineered flooring works well over radiant heat because its unique plywood construction creates greater stability as each wood layer is positioned perpendicular to the other thereby resisting movement from environmental fluctuations depending on the selection can be nailed glued or floated over the subflooring. This floor does not glue down or staple into the subfloor giving it the space your radiant flooring wires need.

Installing radiant heating under carpeting on the other hand is not as effective. Solid hardwood can easily be damaged by heat and moisture. Porcelain ceramic and natural stone are the best flooring materials for radiant heating as they encompass all four factors. There are several beautiful hardwoods but you ll have to probably go the engineered route as it s more dimensionalally stable over heat changes like that.

Quartersawn wood flooring is always more stable under conditions of extreme moisture or heat and is always a good choice over radiant heat especially when going with flooring wider than 4 inches. As long as proper precautions are taken it is perfectly fine to install laminate over a radiant heated floor. In addition tile flooring will not expand as it warms or contract as it cools. Laminate flooring on top of a radiant heated floor is the perfect solution.

Porcelain and ceramic tile are great conductors of heat so your home will get the full benefit of the radiant heating system. For added longevity of a tile floor consider pairing tempzone floor heating cable with the prodeso cable installation membrane which provides uncoupling and crack isolation benefits. Here are the top 4 flooring options for use over radiant heat. Plainsawn wood will move more than quartersawn especially when it is over 4 inches wide.