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Glasgow · Scotland

Underfloor Heating Flooring in Glasgow

New screeds and old joists

Glasgow's proposed plan sets a requirement of 22,569 homes. What heated screeds need before a floor goes down, and what retrofitting means in older flats.

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What Glasgow homes mean for underfloor heating flooring

22,569 homes: that is the Local Housing Land Requirement in the council's proposed City Development Plan, spread across its 10 years.

The plan is still in its representation period and not yet adopted, but homes built on that scale arrive on new screeds, and where a screed carries heating pipes, the order of work matters. The guide to laying a floor on a new screed calls the step that has to come first a drying and commissioning cycle, and it stresses the order of the two words.

The screed dries first. Then it is taken through its working temperatures while nothing is on top to take the consequences. A wood or vinyl floor comes after both, not in between.

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At a glance

Underfloor heating flooring in Glasgow at a glance

68.7%live in a flatScotland: 34.4%What it means 66.7%in a purpose-built flatScotland: 32.4%What it means 1.7%in a converted flatScotland: 1.6%What it means 75.2%mains gas heating onlyScotland: 73.4%What it means Every figure with its source in Local facts

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Underfloor Heating in Glasgow

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01/ 04

  • 68.7%live in a flat
  • 66.7%in a purpose-built flat

Regeneration areas, new flats and an underlay with two jobs

Regeneration areas belong to the same picture: Sighthill and Gallowgate are two of the eight Transformational Regeneration Areas on the council's list. A new home in one of them with pipes in its screed goes through the same drying and commissioning before any floor is ordered.

68.7% of Glasgow households live in a flat (Scotland: 34.4%) and 66.7% in a purpose-built block or tenement. The underlay guide says the underlay is chosen with the floor, not after it, and chosen for the room: for sound in a flat, for heat over a heated screed. A heated floor in a flat asks for both at once, so compare an underlay's impact figure and its suitability for heating side by side.

The same applies to the 1.7% of households in a flat in part of a converted or shared house (Scotland: 1.6%), where the floor between flats may be timber joists; the underlay still has to handle sound as well as heat.

02/ 04

Retrofitting under the suspended floors of older homes

Older homes pose the opposite problem. Survey estimates put 43% of the council area's dwellings before 1945 (Scotland: 28%), and the council's South Glasgow districts of pre-1919 buildings include King's Park, Battlefield and Langside.

Where a home of that age has a suspended timber floor, the period homes guide is clear that heating can be retrofitted beneath it. It is done. What it changes is the oak that can go on top, so decide on the heating before choosing the boards, not after.

03/ 04

  • 75.2%mains gas heating only

A gas boiler and a wet heating system

75.2% of Glasgow households have mains gas as their only central heating, against 73.4% for Scotland. Energy guidance for new dwellings in England, used here only to classify the system, counts gas-fired heating as wet heating and gives two examples: radiators and underfloor heating. A gas boiler, in other words, can feed pipes in a floor as well as radiators on a wall. Whether your own boiler and pipework suit it is a separate question to settle before any floor is chosen.

04/ 04

  • 4.6January mean
  • 34.9air frost days a year

Winter joints and a cold conservatory floor

January in the town centre averages 4.6 degrees (1991 to 2020), a little below the median of 4.8 for the 151 towns. The heating season dries the air. Over underfloor heating the joints of a real wood floor open slightly in winter and close again in summer, and the guide to floors over heating calls that normal behaviour rather than a fault.

Glasgow averages 34.9 days of air frost a year (median 38.1) and 0.8 days on which the temperature stays below freezing all day (median 0.8). A porcelain floor in a conservatory is cold underfoot in winter, and the conservatory guide names that as the one case where underfloor heating changes the room rather than just warming it.

Checks

Before you order underfloor heating flooring in Glasgow

  • Ask for the commissioning record On a new heated screed, confirm that it has dried and then been run through its working temperatures before the floor is ordered.
  • Pick the underlay together with the floor In a flat it must answer for impact sound and for heat; compare both figures on the datasheet.
  • In an older flat, decide the heating first Heating retrofitted under suspended timber changes which oak can go on top.
  • Expect slight winter gaps in real wood Joints over heating open in the dry season and close in summer; plan the finish with that in mind.

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Questions

Questions about underfloor heating flooring in Glasgow

Can a floor go straight onto a new heated screed in a Glasgow new build?

No. The screed dries first and is then commissioned through its working temperatures. With 22,569 homes in the council's proposed plan, it is the sequence to ask about in any new flat.

Can underfloor heating be added to a pre-1919 flat in Glasgow?

Retrofitting under a suspended timber floor is done, but it changes which oak can go on top. An estimated 43% of dwellings in the council area were built before 1945.

Does underfloor heating work with a gas boiler?

Energy guidance treats gas-fired heating in new homes as wet heating and names underfloor heating as one form of it. 75.2% of Glasgow households heat with mains gas only.

Why do gaps appear in a heated wood floor in a Glasgow winter?

Heating dries the air, so the boards give up moisture and the joints open slightly, then close in summer. January averages 4.6 degrees in the town centre.

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Local facts: underfloor heating flooring in Glasgow

11 facts from the census, the Met Office, the council and other public records, each with what it means for a floor in Glasgow and where it comes from.

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