Carpet Over Heated Concrete Floor

Living room and sunroom.

Carpet over heated concrete floor.

Its not yet hooked up to the water tank. Any carpet fiber style from plush to loop can be applied to a concrete floor. I ll be putting a vapor barrier down. Carpet and carpet padding manufacturers can calculate exactly how insulating their material is or how much it prevents heat flow.

I ve poured hundreds of concrete floors with radiant heat and have learned a lot about how it works including the. The r value is the number that represents how insulating a. Question i have is. I am having laminate floors replaced over concrete heated floors.

Warmup provides quality electric under carpet heating with a wide range of compatible carpet heating products for quick and efficient heating. I have in floor heating built into the concrete. But the heating system we bought idealheat s 3 ft. The laminate will need to be glued on the end joints.

110 volt radiant floor heat film with anti fracture membrane from home depot seems to assume it will be used with a tile floor above it. I am wanting to install a wet bar and was hoping to do the work myself however i haven t worked with in floor radiant heat before and was wondering if i can install my wet bar cabinets over the heated floors. Being in the concrete business in maine i see a lot of people installing concrete floor heating as their main source of heat. In fact any type of flooring that employs adhesive as its joining system is a poorer choice for radiant heating systems than flooring that uses tongue and groove or fold and lock seaming.

Everything above the heater including underlay. The chosen fiber material type should be a synthetic form such as olefin face fiber. I m going to install laminate flooring on concrete. When using radiant floor heating under carpet care should be taken to ensure effective performance of the system.