Should I do plumbing or underfloor heating first? Plumbing arrangement unreasonable really affect the floor heating construction? Recently a lot of decoration friends because of these problems feel headache, have come to consult this question, our answer: do plumbing and electricity first, and then do underfloor heating. Plumbing and electricity are not handled well, it may affect the floor heating installation.

01 Impact of plumbing and electrical processes on conventional wet underfloor heating

①Pre-embedded wiring pipes, water pipes through the ceiling

Paving underfloor heating must be the original ground level, which is the basic requirement. So in the south, generally the decoration company will choose to open the slot pre-buried wire piping. After doing the pre-buried basically does not affect the ground flatness, you can lay the insulation layer. Water pipes are generally recommended to go to the top, because the chances of water seepage of water pipes are higher than the chances of damage to the wires. Pre-embedded ground once the water leakage, but also stripped the floor heating layer, maintenance is very troublesome.

②Wire pipes go by the wall, and water pipes go by the ceiling.

Earthmother suggests that this practice is the most cost-effective. Firstly, it does not affect the construction of floor heating, and secondly, no need to save a lot of money trenching. General family wire is not much, against the wall to go a line pipe basically meets the demand.

③Wire ducts are pulled all over the house, and water pipes go to the roof.

This practice is for home smart devices especially, wires are really very much, against the wall is difficult to meet the alignment needs. Such an alignment method, the subsequent need for ground levelling. Only after levelling can the floor heating insulation be laid. Otherwise, there will be a variety of cutting insulation material phenomenon, late insulation is very poor, high energy consumption.

02 Impact of plumbing and electrical treatment on dry underfloor heating

Dry underfloor heating requires the same levelling of the floor as laying a wooden floor. Within two metres the drop should not be more than 3mm.Secondly, dry underfloor heating cannot be cut over the pipe as dry underfloor heating is pipe embedded and cutting over the pipe will result in the pipe not being able to be stuck down.

①Pre-embedded wiring pipes, water pipes through the ceiling

This form is perfectly acceptable for dry floor heating. After pre-buried water pipes the ground needs to be made a layer of 0.5-1cm thickness of self-levelling fine levelling is sufficient.

②Wire pipes go against the wall, water pipes go to the ceiling.

This is perfectly fine if you don't have a lot of pipes. But it is worth noting that the place where the cross pull over the door must be slotted and pre-buried a little. Because this will affect the laying of dry modules and coils. After doing the line pipe, you just need to do a layer of gypsum base fine levelling of the original floor.

③Wire ducts are pulled all over the house, and water pipes go to the roof.

If the whole house is pulled full for dry underfloor heating a whole house levelling must be done, which can be done using gypsum based self-levelling. The levelling thickness should cover off the wiring ducts and there should be no bulges.

Whether it is traditional wet floor heating or dry floor heating, Earthmother believes that the ground should be guaranteed flatness, dry floor heating on the initial ground flatness requirements to be higher. So to install underfloor heating must be communicated in advance with the decoration company to deal with the ground pipeline, do not wait for the floor heating into the field found that the ground can not be laid, affecting the progress of the decoration.

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