Laying Heating Pipes Concrete Floor

My house has concrete floors on the ground floor and the rad and central heating pipes run between the wall and plasterboard via 10mm microbore piping.

Laying heating pipes concrete floor.

Either through pipes carrying hot water embedded in or directly below the floor or via electric mats in or below the floor. I have recently bought a house with an electric heating. So even if there are no existing plans for the radiant floor heating or a snow melting system installing pex tubing in it may turn out to be a good decision. The final step in preparing for our concrete slab is finished.

The workers in the photograph at page top where our concrete slab. Instead of blowing hot air through a vent or pumping hot water to a baseboard radiator along the wall radiant heat warms up the entire floor. This article explains how to avoid some fatal mistakes when installing radiant heat in a concrete floor slab by describing an incompetent radiant heat floor installation along with an explanation of why things went wrong and how to avoid these errors. Posted 7 years ago wwaswas.

The aim is to have very few pipes showing. As the house has concrete floors i don t want to rip the floors up to get the central heating installed and want the pipes to run down the wall through cupboards etc. I want to replace this with oil fired central heating. Radiant heating system design or installation mistakes that must be avoided.