Stud walls over screed and UFH; any problems ??

[Lin]

We are going for open plan living and UFH in an anydrite screed 50mm

 

If we should later decide to partition off a room in years to come, we would obvously not drill or hammer into the floor where there is a risk of piercing the pipe, but are there any other implications of studding when there are UFH pipes going underneath the stud partition ?

 

Thanks

[Nickfromwales]

14 minutes ago, Lin said:

We are going for open plan living and UFH in an anydrite screed 50mm

 

If we should later decide to partition off a room in years to come, we would obvously not drill or hammer into the floor where there is a risk of piercing the pipe, but are there any other implications of studding when there are UFH pipes going underneath the stud partition ?

 

Thanks

The issue is with zoning heat into the separate rooms  If one ever turns out to be a bedroom for eg and is smaller then you may have no option of having that room run cooler or warmer. 

After that theres no problems at all. Plenty of good products out there to bond a sole-plate stud instead of screws or nails  

With 50mm screed you will need a good degree of flow control as the temp swings will be quite acute. What standard are you building to? 

[newhome]

31 minutes ago, Nickfromwales said:

The issue is with zoning heat into the separate rooms  If one ever turns out to be a bedroom for eg and is smaller then you may have no option of having that room run cooler or warmer. 

 

We designed the zones in the landing and upper sitting area here to work as separate zones in case someone wanted to put a stud wall in to make an extra bedroom in the future so I guess any potential partition could be similarly designed into the UFH layout.