What is the best solution for a basement floor? We will have a bedroom, entrance, boiler room, laundry room, and shower there.
- Insulated leca wall (isoblock or whatever it's called) + Platon mat
- Uninsulated leca wall with isodrän as external insulation
- Concrete block??
How should the floor structure for the next floor be made? Wood, concrete???
- Insulated leca wall (isoblock or whatever it's called) + Platon mat
- Uninsulated leca wall with isodrän as external insulation
- Concrete block??
How should the floor structure for the next floor be made? Wood, concrete???
Floor structure over boiler room might be best made of concrete? There might be requirements for it to be non-combustible? If planning the kitchen and toilet above it, it might be easier to lay tiles directly on the concrete if you are going to have tiles?
We have such a solution in an old house and when we fire up in the boiler room, we get "heated floors" in the purple toilet above and partly in the kitchen
. In the kitchen, there are oak planks, so they get dry and shrink a bit (gaps widen), so it would be more suitable with tiles there too . It's just a tip to take advantage of opportunities/avoid issues
gaia
We have such a solution in an old house and when we fire up in the boiler room, we get "heated floors" in the purple toilet above and partly in the kitchen
. In the kitchen, there are oak planks, so they get dry and shrink a bit (gaps widen), so it would be more suitable with tiles there too . It's just a tip to take advantage of opportunities/avoid issues gaia
Is it really necessary to have concrete floors if you are going to have a boiler room in the basement?
Since it seems most common to have wooden joists over crawl spaces, I thought it would also be the most common over a walkout basement. Concrete, however, sounds solid and good.
How do you handle the floor of the "next" level if you want underfloor heating? Can it also be embedded in the concrete, or do you frame it in some way and lay the coils on top?
How do you handle the floor of the "next" level if you want underfloor heating? Can it also be embedded in the concrete, or do you frame it in some way and lay the coils on top?
The funny thing is that waterborne underfloor heating is cheaper in concrete slabs than in wood. In our house, we have it embedded in the basement and entry level. The floor in v2 is wood with underfloor heating in deflector plates. See:
http://www.wirsbo.se/ifs/files/Wirsbo/swe/Presentation/Website/Produkter/Golvvxrme/Golvvxrme.jsp
http://www.wirsbo.se/ifs/files/Wirsbo/swe/Presentation/Website/Produkter/Golvvxrme/Golvvxrme.jsp