BU688 Embedded floor heating
- Abbreviation
- BU688(2024)
- Valid from
- 1/01/2024
- Information provider
- BRANZ Limited,
- Information type
- BRANZ Bulletin,
- Format
- PDF,
Description
Embedded floor heating systems produce a uniform heat over the entire floor area, providing direct radiant comfort from lowtemperature heat stored within the slab.
This bulletin describes the design, installation, commissioning and maintenance requirements of two types of systems:
- piped hot water (hydronic) and
- electric heating.
Scope
The bulletin covers:
- Introduction
- Benefits and limitations of floor heating systems
- Types of floor heating
- Building Code requirements
- Design
- Slab design
- Design of hydronic systems
- Water heating
- Circuits in hydronic systems
- Design of electric systems
- Temperature control
- Zones
- Temperature sensors
- Installation of the embedded heating system
- Hydronic systems
- Electric systems
- Slab insulation (single-pour slab)
- Installation of floor slab
- Placing concrete
- Curing concrete
- Commissioning and operation
- Testing hydronic systems
- Testing electric systems
- Commissioning the system
- Operation
- Maintenance for hydronic systems
- Floor coverings
- More information (resources):
- Standards New Zealand
- BRANZ