Underfloor Heating

One of the main considerations when designing a home will be how to heat it.

Pipelife Eco is Ireland’s leading designer and supplier of thousands of Underfloor Heating Systems each year. The Pipelife team works with everyone from homeowners, contractors, architects & consulting engineers across the country in projects ranging from residential homes, hospitals, nursing homes, to warehouses and car showrooms.

Underfloor Heating is one of the most critical items that you will put into your home. Underfloor heating is a very clean and simple form of heating, ideally suited to today’s well-insulated, low-energy and airtight buildings.

Most of the system will be buried in your floor foundations for your home’s lifetime. It is critical that the components used are top quality and fully backed by reputable manufacturers. Pipelife offers a 50 year guarantee on our Qual-Pex Plus+ ‘Easy-Lay’ Multilayer Pipe.

Underfloor heating works in a very similar way to central heating radiator systems in that water is heated up by oil or gas fired boilers and that hot water is supplied to the rooms in your home. The essential differences are that the water does not need to be heated to higher temperatures, and instead of being distributed to radiators, the hot water is distributed through long lengths of heating pipe that are buried in the concrete in your floor. The hot water running through these pipes heats up the concrete floor and the floor itself becomes a big ‘radiator’ and heats your rooms.

Underfloor heating has the effect of heating the entire floor throughout leaving it warm to the touch resulting in even heat distribution. It is a proven fact that gentle heat radiated at floor level provides the optimum heating temperature profile for the human body.

With radiator systems, some of the heat is immediately wasted as it rises to the ceiling. With an underfloor heating system, the heat is concentrated at floor level where it is most needed. In rooms with large areas, underfloor heating is the only way to heat the centre of the room effectively and uniformly.

The major benefits of an underfloor heating system is that it provides a comfortable even temperature throughout your home offering a healthier environment with less dust being circulated, high fuel efficiencies and no restrictions on interior design layout.

Underfloor Heating is easy to install, requires low maintenance and is very cost effective to run. An underfloor heating system creates an even temperature, comfortable environment with no hot or cold draughts, just a gentle feeling of warmth throughout your home.

Underfloor Heating Systems go hand in hand with Heat Pump Installations

An underfloor system heating circulates low temperature water. Most conventional heating systems circulate higher temperature water, usually between 50ºC to 80ºC whereas an underfloor heating system circulates water between 25ºC to 40ºC.

An Air to Water heat pump is the most modern and efficient way of generating this low temperature supply of water. A heat pump is the most efficient way of heating your home and your domestic hot water requirements for Irish climate conditions.

An underfloor heating system coupled with an Air to water heat pump thus provides the best solution for heating your home giving you low running costs, maximum comfort and control, and low CO2 emissions.

In many cases a combination of Underfloor heating downstairs and energy efficient aluminium radiators upstairs also offers an excellent compromise between comfort and costs.

Our design engineers will advise at the planning stage which of these options is best suited to your home.

From our experience this arrangement gives the optimum result in terms of up-front costs, installation ease, running cost optimisation, maintenance and maximum control and comfort in your home.

At Pipelife ECO we passionately believe we can offer you the best in terms of quality, service, professionalism, comfort and security.