The warmup foil heater is an electric underfloor heating system for carpet but also vinyl wood and other floating floor finishes.
Carpets for underfloor heating.
Electric underfloor heating is ideal for carpet as long as the tog values don t.
7 key points to safely using electric underfloor heating under carpeted floors 1.
Tog value of the carpet and underlay.
Neither carpet nor underlay are great conductors of heat so the lower the tog.
The combined value of the carpet and underlay should not exceed 2 5 tog and preferably less than 1 5 for heat pump systems.
The foil heater is made up of a fiber reinforced foil wrapped around a thin multi strand dual core heating cable that is insulated with an advanced fluoropolymer.
According to research from and the underfloor heating manufacturers association uhma and advice from the carpet foundation you should be looking for a combined tog rating of less than 2 5 for your carpet and underlay for underfloor systems to operate efficiently.
The total tog of all materials including any under and overlays must not exceed 2 5 tog in order for the system to provide sufficient heat output.
It is perfectly possible to achieve good outputs with underfloor heating and carpet but some key points will need consideration.