Engineered Flooring Over Hydronic Heating

Launstein hardwood floors are engineered to give your home the beauty of hardwood flooring and the luxury of radiant heat.

Engineered flooring over hydronic heating.

With launstein hardwood floors you can enjoy the beauty of natural wood with the comfort of radiant heat. But that said even a wood floor will warm up and heat you and the room quite well. Engineered wood flooring is in general more dimensionally stable than solid wood flooring. There is an alternative to solid hardwood flooring that looks identical but won t dry out from exposure to underfloor heating.

The inherent dimensional stability of engineered hardwood floors makes it a great choice for radiant heat systems. The purchase of laminate flooring to be installed over hydronic radiant floors or radiant heat should only be entrusted to trained professionals who are qualified to assess the heating system and determine the best type of laminate floor for installation. Heated hardwood flooring is the single most effective luxury upgrade for your home. However not all engineered wood flooring is recommended or appropriate for use over radiant heating systems.

Our laminate flooring is approved for use over radiant heating systems. The heating element should be embedded within a sleeper system subfloor under a traditional subfloor or embedded within concrete. A good compromise is to install the hydronic system right in a concrete slab and install the wood on the concrete. Laminate over radiant heat shaw s laminate flooring goes perfectly with radiant heating systems.

Get your new laminate floor with the carpet guys. When you are installing wood floors over top of concrete the double layer two layers of 1 2 ply floating plywood method will be the best method. Engineered wood flooring like laminate it is produced in layers so it has a more stable base that won t react to the heating and cooling process. The cut and thickness of the wear layer lamina peeled sliced or sawn may also affect how the.

The top layer or wear layer is solid wood and comes in all the same varieties that you ll find with other solid hardwood flooring. North american oak american cherry and american walnut are all appropriate. To help you achieve the perfect installation we re giving you a few pointers before you get started. A correctly installed engineered hardwood floor can resist damage from underfloor heating better than it can resist most localized heating sources.

One of the best options over radiant heat is to use an engineered hardwood floor. Engineered flooring even comes in bamboo. But if you do wish to put radiant heating under solid hardwood use quarter sawn wood flooring instead of plain sawn wood flooring. Most manufacturers that manufacturer engineered floating floors provide a warranty for installations over radiant systems with the possible exceptions of their maple and brazilian cherry species but the installation of their flooring have to be done according to their specifications.