How much heat is lost through the floor?

10-20% How much heat is lost through my floor? It may surprise you to know on average 10-20% of heat loss occurs through your floors – this is in addition to losing heat through your ceilings, windows, and doors, not to mention open fireplaces too.

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When it comes to keeping the heat inside your home, there are plenty of different things you can do, but one of the most important is ensuring your flooring has a high tog rating and fitted correctly – our fitting service will give you peace of mind for years to come that you’re not losing any heat from poorly fitted flooring. Here are some of the different flooring solutions you can try to reduce heat loss this winter.

CARPET

There’s no doubt carpet is one of the best types of flooring to reduce energy costs. Carpet is a natural source of insulation, making your home more energy efficient by retaining more heat. When you walk on a carpet, warm air gets trapped just above its surface, reducing draughts, and making you feel warmer. This helps to trap the warm air in the room for longer and having more carpeted rooms in your home brings you the greatest benefit. It's thought wool carpets are the most effective thermal insulators, as wool fibres not only retain their pile height for a longer period (which is essential for retaining insulation) but also feel warm and firm underfoot, helping you feel cosier. We wouldn’t advise including carpet in every room in your home. We don’t recommend having carpeted kitchens or bathrooms, so for rooms that can’t be carpeted, we recommend using a smooth flooring with the correct underlay.

Underlay

Underlay is a layer of material that sits underneath your flooring and creates a barrier between your subfloor and flooring. It comes in different thicknesses, materials, and tog ratings. The underlay you choose should be matched to the layer above. If your underlay has a high tog rating it will prevent heat from escaping through the floor, while also providing exceptional comfort under a carpet and warmth under a smooth floor. You can add underlay underneath laminate flooring and engineered wood, but it’s not recommended to add underlay underneath vinyl flooring, as vinyl floors usually have a base layer of foam or felt back that provides extra softness and warmth underfoot, so don't need an underlay. This makes them a great value choice for larger rooms like kitchens.

Underfloor heating

Underfloor heating acts like a big storage heater underneath your flooring – it evenly distributes heat across the whole room and is a great way of heating your room too. Because your flooring has become the heat emitter instead of radiators that sit above the floor, you won’t lose heat through your flooring. they also heat other elements of your home and make them warmer, as opposed to radiators which send heat upwards towards your ceiling and don’t circulate heat through the room. Fitting underfloor heating is a specialist job and is usually more suitable for newbuild homes. It’s not necessarily recommended if you have an older property. Check out our guide to which flooring works best with underfloor heating to find out if underfloor heating could be the solution for you.

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How do you keep cold air from coming through floorboards?

Where do I start to stop the cold air coming in through my wooden floorboards? The best solution is to insulate underneath your floor with a Polyester Underfloor Insulation and/or fill any cracks or gaps with UltraClear.

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But wooden floorboards can let a lot of air leak through and significantly decrease the thermal comfort factor in your home. During long wet, cold and / or high humidity periods, mould, mildew and moisture can enter your home making it unhealthy for family members. The space underneath your floor can stay wet for a long time when there has been a lot of rain. The air can become stagnant allowing toxins into your home. This can potentially create an unhealthy internal environment in your home.

Where do I start to stop the cold air coming in through my wooden floorboards?

The best solution is to insulate underneath your floor with a Polyester Underfloor Insulation and/or fill any cracks or gaps with UltraClear.

This is where and how to start:

Find out if you have gaps between your floorboards. Look for gaps between your skirting board and your floorboards. Assess the crawl space underneath your house. Assess the structural condition of the floor framework and the stumps or piers that hold up the beams of your home. Houses move, wood shrinks and expands with climate conditions, foundations deteriorate with age and weather, and termites can take up residence and eat the wood away. If you have severe gaps and cracks throughout your home, then have an expert inspect your underfloor in case you have a serious structural problem. If, however, you have located gaps and cracks in your floorboards, (as shown and described in our video) the very first thing to do is to fill those gaps and cracks. Maurice Beinat, Technical Director of ecoMaster, explains how to locate gaps and how to fill them in this video.

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