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| Thread ID: 108070 | 2010-03-12 19:51:00 | Hydronic Under Floor Heating | McChief (15671) | PC World Chat |
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| 866583 | 2010-07-15 20:02:00 | Concrete is cheap compared with the cost and labour involved in putting down a timber floor and has far better thermal qualities. Also concrete if down properly can soak up heat from the sun and release that heat back into the house. I worked on a house last year that had concrete floors that were coloured with a dark pigment, they never felt cold all winter that I worked there | gary67 (56) | ||
| 866584 | 2010-07-16 05:42:00 | those coloured floors are usually a resin. very tricky to get done right and if it fails its an expensive fix. but they do look very nice. wooden floors are nice but usually done where you have to put piles down due to unstable ground. one catch with concrete floors retaining heat is keeping the ground under the concrete dry. polystyrene insulation under the concrete is pointless if it gets wet. |
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| 866585 | 2010-07-16 10:04:00 | Termites get a bit crook dining on concrete, even untreated concrete. ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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