Carpets For Underfloor Heating

The warmup foil heater is an electric underfloor heating system for carpet but also vinyl wood and other floating floor finishes.

Carpets for underfloor heating.

It is perfectly possible to achieve good outputs with underfloor heating and carpet but some key points will need consideration. The assumption is that because a carpet insulates it will prevent an underfloor heating system from adequately heating a room and while wood engineered floors are all the rage lots of people still like the comfort under their feet that a carpet provides in a bedroom. 7 key points to safely using electric underfloor heating under carpeted floors 1. According to research from and the underfloor heating manufacturers association uhma and advice from the carpet foundation you should be looking for a combined tog rating of less than 2 5 for your carpet and underlay for underfloor systems to operate efficiently.

Carpet is suitable for use with underfloor heating provided that the material of the carpet or underlay does not act as an insulator blocking the heat. The total tog of all materials including any under and overlays must not exceed 2 5 tog in order for the system to provide sufficient heat output. Carpets are the traditional floor covering for bedrooms and living areas. The combined value of the carpet and underlay should not exceed 2 5 tog and preferably less than 1 5 for heat pump systems.

Neither carpet nor underlay are great conductors of heat so the lower the tog.