Gypsol Solida heated screed system

The heating system is coupled with energy efficient heat sources such as condensing gas boiler systems or renewable heat technologies such as air or ground source heat pumps which may be more appropriate to higher code and carbon neutral developments.

Features and benefits:

• Offset reductions in build costs.

• An increased number of houses in a given plot.

• Reductions in heating operating costs.

• Improvements in energy efficiency.

• When a change is made from radiators to underfloor heating, the occupier gains more useable space in each room. The generally accepted figure for this is 8–10% more useable space. This offers a number of practical and commercial opportunities to the house builder.

• The use of Gypsol based screeds over the underfloor heating systems reduces the operating costs of the heating system. Tests using efficient and correctly designed underfloor heating systems have shown that using anhydrite screeds can improve the co-efficient of performance of an underfloor heating system by up to 25%.

• Additionally flow temperatures can be reduced by some 40– 50ºC compared to the temperatures required for radiator systems or some 10– 15ºC compared to underfloor heating systems in traditional sand cement screeds. This adds to the desirability, helps justify a higher selling price and also helps the builder to achieve higher code levels where required and to gain extra code credits in coded sustainable developments.

• Smaller house footprint means reduced build costs.

• Smaller footprint means potentially higher housing density of up to 10%, thus increasing a site’s profitability.

• Smaller footprints mean greater opportunities for incorporating open spaces in developments making them more desirable.