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With underlay, it doesnt feel markedly 'softer' - just like a 'normal'
(slightly 'sprung'???) wood floor.  But it's a lot less hard than
ceramic tiles.

We something like 120m2 of engineered wood flooring over uf and it
works flawlessly for over 5 years.

Richard

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Chris Hunter <cjhunter@...> wrote:
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> Underlay ???   'hadn't thought of that !
>
> I imagined it would be glued to the screed, rather than laid
> loose ... interlocked, presumably, but loose ... ?
>
> which seems odd, because ceramic tiles wouldn't be laid loose,
> surely, so glues must be available ... ?
>
> 'wonder how much hotter must the water be to cope with this ... maybe
> it's a specially conductive underlay ... maybe doubling the pipe
> would compensate (IIRC Ian's used more pipe, to run cooler, so might
> work) ... ?
>
> being softer underfoot might be good, of course, but it rather puts
> me off the idea !
>
> Chris
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>
>
> On 19 Apr 2007, at 01:10, rb_ziggy wrote:
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> > We have a Kahrs 'engineered' (i.e. laminated not laminate) wood
floor
> > throughout the ground floor.  Absolutely no probs with UF in over
5
> > years.  Works fine.
> >
> > But as Nigel says, don't go for the thick (i.e. insulating)
underlay,
> > that is rather counter-productive.  (N.B. do use underlay though,
a
> > friend laid the same floating flooring without and it sounded
like a
> > drum when the kids ran around).
>
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