When specifying heating in domestic properties, underfloor heating( UFH) is increasingly seen as the system that offers the levels of energy efficiency and comfort required. In design terms, UFH provides the added benefit that, unlike radiators, it does not have an impact on interior aesthetics and layouts.
This leaves just one perplexing issue; whether to opt for a wet( hydronic) system or an electric system.
Both offer advantages and disadvantages. Wet UFH systems circulate water
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heated to around 45-50 º C through loops of pipe laid into the screed of solid floors or the joists of suspended timber floors.
The low temperature of the water used makes these systems energy efficient and ideally suited to use with air or ground source heat pumps or district heating systems. Electric systems use a continuous cable, either laid within the screed or supplied as a mat which is laid above the subfloor.
For further information, please contact Gaia on 01359 242 400 or visit www. gaia. co. uk.
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Some 180 Marmox Thermoblocks have been supplied to a regional builder for the construction of a high specification home near Harrogate, with their unique combination of insulating and load-carrying properties being used to tackle cold bridging where the two storeys above ground meet the basement structure which contains a swimming pool and other recreation areas. |
The five bedroom property has been built by Dobson Construction with a beam and block ground floor being supported off the in-situ concrete basement walls.
The partially filled external wall of dense concrete blockwork, with an outer leaf of quarried stone, was then raised on the continuous course of Thermoblocks.
www. marmox. co. uk
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