Above Concrete Floor Heating. Adding some insulation to your concrete house will help keep hot air inside and block cold air from entering. Radiant heat warms a floor's surface through electric mats or water tubing installed on the surface of a concrete floor and encased in an additional thin layer of concrete or thinset. This video will walk you through purchasing and installing hardwood flooring on slab on grade or basement concrete with radiant heat.
But the heating system we bought (idealheat's 3 ft. Solid floors are insulated using rigid insulation foam, which can be fitted either above or below the concrete. These vapor retarders are the best and offer the highest level of protection.
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These vapor retarders are the best and offer the highest level of protection. A couple of questions for the laminate flooring install. I don't particularly like them, however, because they're not very energy efficient. When heating a slab floor, the goal is to efficiently heat the slab and direct as much of that heat as possible into the living/working space above it.