Latest Designer Bathroom Ideas and How To Guides for your Home

Despite the fact that it is an electric based system and everyone knows electricity and water don’t mix, the heating cable or heating mat system is the perfect solution for bathroom use and what is even better is that it is completely safe. The electricity and water just don’t get the chance to mix and this is a lovely luxury for the bathroom, as you will no longer get cold feet when you step out of the lovely warm bath.

As a bathroom tends to be in the upstairs part of the house, the first thing to be installed is a layer of insulation designed to force the heat upwards rather than down into the rooms below. The heat cabling is then laid, starting at one end of the room and winding back and forth in neatly spaced rows, before being taped into place. A thermostat control point should be added at some point and the whole floor should be uniformed, which is to say the spaces between the cables are all about the same. Once you have done this, your bathroom floor tiles can be laid straight on top of the underfloor heating system, using a flexible tile adhesive. This is also an excellent way of securing the layer of insulation at the beginning of the installation.

A downstairs bathroom could be suitable for a wet underfloor heating system, but this is not really the best solution to use upstairs, as it cannot be installed effectively and the weight would be excessive.