Warmth that was planned into the floor.
Underfloor heating, manifolds and zoning, set out with the floor build-up, installed to the screed programme, and commissioned to recorded figures rather than balanced by guesswork on the day.
Underfloor heating is decided before the screed.
Pipe spacing, insulation, the floor finish and the flow temperature are all one decision. Get them out of step and the space either never reaches temperature or takes half a day to respond, and by then it is under 75mm of screed.
So we work it out against the actual construction: build-up, coverings, heat loss and how the space is occupied. Then the manifold, the zoning and the controls follow from that — and it gets commissioned and balanced rather than left on default.
Nothing about a heating system is adjustable once it is under the floor.
What we design and install.
- Wet underfloor heating — pipework, manifolds, actuators and zoning
- Electric underfloor heating for smaller and secondary areas
- Heat loss calculations against the actual construction
- Zoning and thermostats, standalone or on the smart control layer
- Towel rails, trench heating and radiator circuits
- Air-to-air heating via the air conditioning systems we install
- Commissioning, balancing and a written record of the flow rates set
- Controls integrated with lighting and the wider smart layer
- Air source heat pumps — [MCS certification to be confirmed]
- [Gas Safe registration to be confirmed] — required for any work on gas appliances
Bracketed items are awaiting confirmation from Systems360. Gas Safe registration is a legal requirement for gas work and MCS certification governs access to heat pump grant funding; neither is something to claim on a client's behalf.
The same principles, a different job each time.
What changes from one commercial project to the next is the tolerance for getting it wrong, and how little of the programme there is to get it right in.
In a commercial space
The brief is response, running cost and the programme. The heating package sits between the screed and the floor coverings, and a week lost there is a week lost on everything after it.
- Installed and pressure-tested to suit the screed programme
- Zoned around occupancy rather than around the building's geometry
- Flow temperatures set for the actual build-up and recorded
- Coordinated with the electrical and ceiling packages
[Second commercial application to be supplied]
[A second kind of commercial heating package Systems360 delivers — the sector, what that client was buying, and what made it different from the row above. To be written by Systems360 rather than invented here.]
How a heating package actually runs.
Three stages, and the middle one has a deadline nobody can move.
Heat loss and design
We calculate the heat loss against the real construction, set the pipe spacing and zoning, size the manifold and agree the control philosophy.
Install and pressure test
Pipework laid, manifold installed, the system filled and pressure-tested — and left under test while the screed goes down, so a damaged pipe is found before it is buried.
Commission and balance
Flow rates balanced, zones proved, controls set up, and the commissioning figures written down rather than left in somebody's memory.
Questions we get before we start.
Will it work under the specified floor finish?
Most finishes are fine, but they are not equal — stone and tile respond best, thick engineered timber and heavy underlay worst. Give us the finish at design stage and the spacing and flow temperature are set for it.
When do you need to be on site?
Before the screed, and with enough float to pressure-test and leave the system under test while it goes down. Tell us the screed date at design stage and we will work back from it rather than turning up to it.
Do you work on gas plant?
[Gas Safe registration to be confirmed.] Any work on a gas appliance legally requires a Gas Safe registered engineer, and we will tell you plainly whether that is us or a colleague before anything is booked.
Should we be looking at a heat pump?
Often worth modelling, particularly on a well-insulated new build. Grant funding requires an MCS certified installer — [certification to be confirmed] — and we would rather say so than take the enquiry and work it out later.
Can underfloor heating go into an existing building?
Yes, with low-profile systems, though the floor level rises and the heat loss calculation matters more, not less. We will tell you where it is genuinely a better answer than radiators and where it is not.
[Replace with a real review from a commercial client — ideally one that names the heating work specifically.]
Heating for a home instead?
This page is written for specifiers, contractors and commercial clients. There is a separate one for homeowners, covering the same systems from the other side — which rooms, which floor finish, and what the controls are like to live with.