Water-based underfloor heating is the method of heating your property using pipework in the floor rather than using traditional radiators.
How does underfloor heating work?
How it works is that warm water travels through pipework embedded in your floor, transferring its heat into a thermal mass (screed/concrete).
This heat is then retained in the floor and in turn transferred into the air of your room.
By heating the floor rather than the air directly, your room stays warmer for longer, as well as giving a much more even heat distribution. (It is often the case in rooms with radiators that you get cold spots, and two people sitting in the same room can be at completely different temperatures ).
A key feature of water based underfloor heating is that with the inclusion of the thermal mass the system can run at a lower input temperature from the heat source (e.g. boiler) than with traditional radiators.
This means that less fuel is used to heat the water when compared to radiators and with the thermal mass retaining the heat it can continuously provide stored heat into the room once the system has switched off and stopped using fuel.
This is turn saves money on energy costs.
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