North Leeds Plumbing & Heating – Home Improvement and DIY Advice

Floors of slate, marble and ceramic tiles are among the most sought after and luxurious additions to any bathroom. However opulent the room might already be, they look fantastic, instantly denote the homeowner as a person of taste and wealth and ensure that the bathroom is one of the centrepieces of the home.

However, there is a drawback to all these luxurious bathroom fittings. Unless you live in an extremely warm climate, at some time or other you are going to feel cold, either getting into or out of, the bath or shower.

To get around this problem and to rid the owner of the temptation to haphazardly distribute bath mats all over his or her palatial bathroom, more and more people are beginning to appreciate the benefits of bathroom underfloor heating. What’s more, today you do not have to be a millionaire to be able to afford one.

The actual installation is comparatively straightforward. Located just underneath your bathroom floor, a system of cables is embedded in mortar. These run off the normal domestic mains supply and heat the floor tiles, ensuring a constant source of heating.

While many will immediately telephone a certified engineer, installing the system is really no more difficult than laying a new floor. Indeed, the perfect time to incorporate the system in your bathroom is at the same time as you lay your new floor.

Just before your designer bathroom tiles are to be glued and grouted, the cables are laid out in a grid in a way that ensures the surface area is systematically covered. The entire system is then wired to an external outlet, the tiles are laid, the circuit switched on and there you have it, a perfect temperature-controlled bathroom.