Mirage Flooring Over Radiant Heat

These products can damage the finish and leave a greasy film that makes your floor slippery difficult to maintain and impossible to refinish without deep sanding and complete revarnishing.

Mirage flooring over radiant heat. See your mirage installation guide for more. If you re installing our laminate in a home where radiant heat is used it is important that all installation guidelines are followed and approved underlayments are used. Hot water based hydronic radiant systems are much more energy efficient. Under floor radiant heating systems work by running hot water through pipes or electricity through resistance wires which are installed under the finished floor.

The mirage hdf lock core is exclusively designed to meet the highest requirements for moisture resistance and bonding strength. As long as proper precautions are taken it is perfectly fine to install laminate over a radiant heated floor. Laminate flooring on top of a radiant heated floor is the perfect solution. Quartersawn wood flooring is always more stable under conditions of extreme moisture or heat and is always a good choice over radiant heat especially when going with flooring wider than 4 inches.

Cross section of a mirage engineered floor. Mirage classic floors can be nailed or stapled and engineered floors can be glued or stapled or nailed over 5 8 16 mm thick plywood or 3 4 19 mm osb board if installed over a 16 400 mm center to center joist substructure. Plainsawn wood will move more than quartersawn especially when it is over 4 inches wide. Foxwood flooring will be transitioning with our sister brand mirage hardwood floors.

Do not raise or lower the temperature of a radiant heating system by more than 2 8 c 5 f per day when turning the system on or off. Rest assured that you will continue to have the same quality and service that the foxwood brand was known for. Floor can be installed over concrete wood subfloor or radiant heat system. 29 adding a new wood floor next to an existing one or using new flooring for repairs 30 criteria for selecting fasteners nails and staples to install mirage flooring 31 hickory and jatoba flooring installed on subfloors with radiant heating systems 32 in store sample panels 33 minimum criteria regarding adhesives for use with lock flooring.

You will be able to add to your existing foxwood floor or choose from the much expanded mirage hardwood floors collection. This gently warms the floor under your feet. To help you achieve the perfect installation we re giving you a few pointers before you get started. If you have a radiant heating system in place.

If you ve installed radiant heating in your home you may wonder what type of floor can be installed over it. So why would you use it. Installing hardwood flooring over a radiant heating system. Our laminate flooring is approved for use over radiant heating systems.