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Flooring for underfloor heating

Offering gentle warmth for year-round comfort, underfloor heating is a great choice for any home – and it’s energy efficient, too. Are you looking for the best type of floor for underfloor heating? Pergo has the answer. Our beautifully designed, high-performance laminate, vinyl and engineered-wood floors can all be used with underfloor heating and cooling systems. Advanced technology meets Scandinavian style for a warm and welcoming home. Give it a try – and say hello to a cosy home at any time of the year.

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Fit QuickHeat for barefoot bliss

With our QuickHeat electric underfloor heating system you can say goodbye to time-consuming and costly professional installations. Easy to fit yourself, it’s the efficient and comfortable way to heat your home, and works perfectly with both laminate and engineered-wood floors. QuickHeat is the ideal complement to radiators, and means that you can turn the thermostat on your primary heating system down by a few degrees – saving money and energy.

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The basics: what is underfloor heating?

Underfloor heating offers comfortable warmth underfoot, evenly warming your home with gentle, consistent heat that rises from a system installed below your floor. It’s an excellent solution for any home, allowing you to enjoy a chic design upgrade by eliminating the need for bulky radiators, thus creating a more aesthetically pleasing and spacious environment.

Heat where you want it, when you want it

For underfloor heating to work its best, choose a floor type with low thermal resistance. Why? Because your floor will be quicker to heat up, and your underfloor heating will be more efficient. It’s also vital to put an insulating layer underneath your underfloor heating. This stops heat from disappearing underground and being wasted. Instead it will flow to where you need it – up through your floor and into your room.

Just call them heroes: all our floors can be used with underfloor heating

Our floors are renowned for their Scandinavian design and functionality, and every single one can be installed with a low temperature underfloor heating. What does ‘low temperature’ mean? It’s when the surface temperature of the finished floor reaches a maximum of 27°C. In practice, most floors are cooler than this anyway, especially if your home is new, renovated or well insulated.

You can install Pergo flooring with either an electric or a water-based (‘wet’) underfloor heating system. If you’re opting for electric, our QuickHeat system is the perfect DIY solution for laminate and engineered-wood floors.

  • Electric
    • Uses electric heating cables or mats laid just underneath the floor
    • Often used for small areas or as an extra heat source in individual rooms
    • Pergo’s QuickHeat system is easy to install yourself, budget-friendly and efficient
  • Water-based
    • Uses water pipes or tubes fitted below the floor
    • The water is heated by a central boiler or heat pump and circulated through the pipes
    • Very energy-efficient and often used for heating the whole house

When installing our Pergo floors in combination with underfloor heating, we strongly advise you to consult our general guidelines. The use of the correct Pergo accessories is also essential. The use of unappropriated accessories (eg. underlays) can be harmful to your floor.

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Pergo and underfloor heating

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    Underfloor heating and laminate flooring

    If you’re wondering about underfloor heating for laminate floors, then we’ve got you. All our laminate floors are compatible with low-temperature underfloor heating systems, including both water-based and electric options, as well as underfloor cooling systems. The floor will heat up and cool down gradually for a comfortable, even heat throughout the day, helping to reduce your energy use, too. For the best performance from your Pergo laminate floor, choose our Silent Walk Underlay, which has the lowest thermal resistance.

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    If you’re wondering about underfloor heating for laminate floors, then we’ve got you. All our laminate floors are compatible with low-temperature underfloor heating systems, including both water-based and electric options, as well as underfloor cooling systems. The floor will heat up and cool down gradually for a comfortable, even heat throughout the day, helping to reduce your energy use, too. For the best performance from your Pergo laminate floor, choose our Silent Walk Underlay, which has the lowest thermal resistance.

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    Underfloor heating and vinyl flooring

    Let’s celebrate vinyl! It’s the ideal choice for using with low-temperature underfloor heating and cooling systems. It’s great with all water-based underfloor systems, and compatible with most electric ones. In terms of thermal resistance and efficiency, vinyl flooring is the most effective when compared to wood and laminate. In fact, it’s about as efficient as ceramic tiles, yet unlike tiles it has a soft, warm feel underfoot – making it suitable for every room in your home. We call that a win-win.

    Discover vinyl flooring

    Let’s celebrate vinyl! It’s the ideal choice for using with low-temperature underfloor heating and cooling systems. It’s great with all water-based underfloor systems, and compatible with most electric ones. In terms of thermal resistance and efficiency, vinyl flooring is the most effective when compared to wood and laminate. In fact, it’s about as efficient as ceramic tiles, yet unlike tiles it has a soft, warm feel underfoot – making it suitable for every room in your home. We call that a win-win.

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    Underfloor heating and wood flooring

    Time to stop worrying about using wood flooring with underfloor heating. Simply choose one of our engineered-wood floors, which are all compatible with low-temperature underfloor heating including both water-based and electric, as well as underfloor cooling systems. You can lay your engineered wood floor either glued-down or ‘floating’. Glued is better for thermal conductivity, but if you choose ‘floating’ it may mean you need fewer joints in your floor – resulting in a cleaner look. In this case, use our Silent Walk underlay for optimal heat transfer.

    Discover wood flooring

    Time to stop worrying about using wood flooring with underfloor heating. Simply choose one of our engineered-wood floors, which are all compatible with low-temperature underfloor heating including both water-based and electric, as well as underfloor cooling systems. You can lay your engineered wood floor either glued-down or ‘floating’. Glued is better for thermal conductivity, but if you choose ‘floating’ it may mean you need fewer joints in your floor – resulting in a cleaner look. In this case, use our Silent Walk underlay for optimal heat transfer.

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