Is LVT Flooring Suitable with Underfloor Heating?
LVT and Vinyl Flooring with Underfloor Heating
LVT flooring, which can also be referred to as vinyl flooring, is a great choice to put over your underfloor heating. Among all of the flooring options that are suitable for underfloor heating, the others being real wood flooring and ceramic tiles, LVT flooring is the most budget-friendly out of the three.
Vinyl flooring will not hold the heat as well as real wood, because real hardwood floors can trap pockets of heat within the internal structure of the wood, and can remain warm after the heating is turned off, but that does not mean that vinyl flooring won’t do a good job. Because LVT is so thin, it will allow the heat to come through from the underfloor heating better, and vinyl flooring is already warm underfoot as it is. It is also essential to check manufacturer guidelines before installing LVT flooring over underfloor heating. Usually, the flooring should not be heated above 27 degrees Celsius.
Choosing LVT flooring comes with many benefits. On top of being suitable with underfloor heating, the boards are rigid, durable, and hard wearing. And fully waterproof! This makes vinyl flooring suitable for any room in the home, as well as residential or commercial properties. Due to the boards being so hard wearing, LVT flooring will never budge under many environmental conditions and fluctuations, unlike real wood flooring which tends to expand and contract depending on the temperature.
You don’t have to compromise on the looks with vinyl flooring either. Many LVT floors come with modern click systems, and are made to look and feel like real wood, stone, or tiles. Using ultra-high quality digital images on the top layer, as well as intelligent manufacture to carve knots and seems throughout the length of the board to give it all the natural character of real wood for example, an untrained eye would not be able to tell the difference between a wood effect vinyl floor and a real wood floor. And that goes for stone effect vinyl floors and tile effect vinyl floors as well!