Underfloor heating at home: wood flooring or tiles? Read this and you'll understand

Now that the temperature is gradually turning colder, many friends have started paying their heating bills. Once winter comes, whether it's radiators or underfloor heating, especially in the winter in the north, these two things are truly essential. Huahua personally thinks that a northern winter without heating is like going without clothes - what's the difference?

Speaking of underfloor heating, everyone knows it is extremely convenient. Once winter arrives and the underfloor heating warms up, the whole house feels warm and toasty. It covers a relatively wide area, so it heats the space fairly well. Compared with underfloor heating, radiators seem a bit inferior.

But some friends will ask: if underfloor heating is installed at home, what kind of flooring is suitable to lay? The vast majority of people have tiles laid in their homes, but some friends think tiles are rather cold and not as warm as wood flooring. So they still feel wood flooring would be better, but is that really the case?

Huahua tells everyone that it isn't necessarily so. Don't be fooled by how cold tiles feel - in summer it's fine to walk barefoot on them, and in winter, although they are cold when there's no underfloor heating, once there is underfloor heating they warm up a lot. First of all, everyone should know the characteristics of wood flooring. In fact, the heat conduction of wood flooring is not as good as that of tiles. If we use wood flooring, not only will the underfloor heating below conduct heat poorly, but it will also shorten the service life of the wood flooring.

Not only that, if the underfloor heating temperature is too high, it may also cause the wood flooring to give off an odor. Generally speaking, this kind of odor is not beneficial but harmful, and has no good effect on our bodies, so Huahua suggests everyone not use wood flooring.

Actually, what's so bad about tiles? In winter, with underfloor heating, heat transfers fairly quickly, and it warms up in no time. And most importantly, it's safe - it won't come into contact with the underfloor heating and give off a peculiar smell. And in summer, tile flooring also has the function of cooling its surroundings. It really couldn't be more suitable!

However, if you really like wood flooring or your decor style calls for it, you can also use wood flooring. It's just that it's best not to install underfloor heating at home and to use radiators instead, so that no strange odors will appear.

After all, renovating is a big deal. Huahua hopes everyone can consider their own needs well, weigh the pros and cons, and then decide whether to install wood flooring or tiles. After all, later on, if there's a problem with the flooring at home, redoing the renovation is still somewhat troublesome!

In short, whether it's wood flooring or tiles, each has its own pros and cons. I hope everyone can weigh their own needs well before deciding!