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Hereford · Herefordshire

Underfloor Heating Flooring in Hereford

A floor over underfloor heating has to let heat through and stay flat while it does; 107 of the 122 floors in the range with the attribute are listed as compatible, and the ones that are not are the solid oak boards. In Hereford 88% of homes are houses, most of them detached houses (42%), so the questions are the subfloor and the underlay rather than impact sound.

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Underfloor Heating in Hereford

Underfloor Heating flooring in Hereford: what the housing says

The Herefordshire, County of district counts 82,827 households in the 2021 census, and the mix of houses and flats in that count is what decides how a underfloor heating floor is specified here.

Detached houses are 42% of the homes in Herefordshire, County of, and a detached house in Hereford is the one most likely to have underfloor heating through the whole ground floor, on a screed. That is a long floating run or a large glue-down, and the thermal resistance of floor plus underlay is kept under the 0.15 m²K/W the systems are designed around, which rules out thick underlays.

Owner-occupation is 68% in Herefordshire, County of, and an owner installing underfloor heating in Hereford is usually doing it once, with a screed, and wants oak over it. The engineered range is listed for it, every board; the solid range is not. The wear layer of 3 mm or more still allows a sanding cycle later.

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of households rent privately (15.5% in 2011)
18.8%
live in a flat or maisonette
12.0%
postcode districts we deliver to
HR1, HR4

Source: ONS, Census 2021, Herefordshire, County of (E06000019) · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography)

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Listed as compatible: all 33 engineered boards, from Ascot Cottage Oak Wood Flooring to the 20 mm Victorian Antique Dark Oak Flooring; all 15 parquet products including the Oxford Herringbone Natural Brushed Oak; all twelve 8 mm laminates; all 36 rigid-vinyl products; and the 11 porcelain tiles. Not listed: the 15 solid oak boards and blocks, such as Windsor Solid Smooth Oak Wood Flooring.

RangeListed for underfloor heating
Engineered Wood33 of 33
Solid Wood0 of 15
Parquet15 of 15
Laminate12 of 12
Rigid Vinyl (SPC)36 of 36
Porcelain Tiles11 of 11

Local fact sheet

Hereford's homes, by the numbers

Herefordshire, County of in the 2021 census: 82,827 households, 87% houses, 12% flats.

HR1 and HR4 carry the Cathedral streets and the farmland at Backbury alike, and those two kinds of floor have little in common. The county boundary is no guide either, Herefordshire being a single authority end to end. Age settles a Hereford floor, and it wants establishing before anything is priced.

Detached and semi-detached houses together account for most of Hereford’s stock, with terraces well behind. In the historic core – Castle, Central, College – the ground floor is suspended timber laid over earth or rubble rather than a modern ventilated void, so airflow underneath matters as much as levelling on top.

Under a suspended floor in HR1 the void sits at outside temperature, with moving air on one side of the boards and a heated room on the other. Heat leaves downwards there, which is why insulation belongs between the joists rather than under the covering.

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  • Commissioning before the floor The heating is run through its full drying and commissioning cycle before any floor covering goes down, on the CFA's guidance.
  • Thermal resistance, floor plus underlay Kept within the 0.15 m²K/W the systems are designed around; a tog value is divided by ten to get there. Thick underlays fail this.
  • The surface temperature limit EN 1264 caps it at 29 °C in the room. The controls hold it; the floor is chosen to live under it.
  • Zones and thresholds A large heated ground floor is zoned. A floated floor breaks at the doorways so each zone's movement is its own, and the thermostat probes stay reachable.
  • Thermal resistance on paper For a floor kept for years over heating, keep the floor's and the underlay's thermal resistance figures with the system manual; the 0.15 m²K/W limit is checked against both together.

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Underfloor Heating flooring in Hereford: questions, answered

Which floors can go over underfloor heating in Hereford?

The engineered oak, the parquet, the laminate, the rigid vinyl and the porcelain tiles are all listed as compatible. The solid oak boards are not. The commissioning cycle and the screed reading come before any of them.

Can I have real oak over underfloor heating?

Yes, engineered oak: every board in the range is listed for it. Trade guidance sets no blanket ban on wood over heating but ties it to the temperature limit, which the system's controls hold.

Does the underlay matter over underfloor heating?

It is half of the thermal resistance. Floor and underlay together stay within 0.15 m²K/W; an underlay rated for heating is thin for that reason, and its tog value divided by ten gives the figure to add.

Can I order flooring samples to my Hereford address?

Samples reach every part of the county we serve, HR1 and HR4 alike. Give one a few days on the floor it is meant for rather than a verdict in the hand: a board that curls over a damp void says so before you order the room.

Do you deliver underfloor heating flooring to Hereford?

Yes. We deliver across Hereford and Herefordshire from our UK warehouse, including the HR1 and HR4 postcode districts. Delivery cost and timing depend on the delivery postcode and are shown at checkout, and samples come by post first so the floor can be seen in the room before the full order.

Can I see a underfloor heating sample before ordering in Hereford?

Yes: cut samples are £1.99 each, up to two per product, posted to your Hereford address. Two or three side by side on the floor, in the room's own light morning and evening, settle the colour faster than any photograph.

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