Description of the material
The underfloor heating panel Tycroc UHP has been developed to simplify and accelerate the installation of underfloor heating pipes and cables without using concrete. Tycroc UHP is also suitable to be installed on concrete construction, but as the weight of the square meter of the panel is small, the solution is especially valuable in wooden structures / wooden buildings. The extruded polystyrene foam (XPS foam) panel with grooves specially cut for heating pipes or cables prevents downward heat loss, whilst the aluminium foil covering the panel is an good heat divider under the flooring.
Tycroc UHP05
Tycroc UHP16
Tycroc UHP20
Characteristics and advantages
Tycroc UHP is suitable for installation onto any common bearing surfaces omitting the time-consuming and costly casting works. The installation is simple, fast and clean and requires no additional drying time (like concrete casting). Quickly responsive to temperature control. The solution allows installing the flooring directly onto Tycroc UHP panels. Thanks to the shorter distance between the heating pipe/cable and the flooring, and the lower thermal mass, the heat release is faster and more efficient. Recommended water temperature inside the pipes is 35-40 °C and using heating cables the max temp. must be set to 28 °C (requirement of parquet manufacturers). Compared to the traditional material-consuming solutions, our solution is also considerably lighter (weight of the panels starts from 0,89 kg/m²) and with a lower mounting height (thickness of the panel is 20 mm, 25 mm or 30 mm). The XPS panel has good thermal insulation characteristics, thereby providing extra insulation to the floors with insufficient or outright non-existing insulation. The main material of Tycroc UHP – XPS has closed pores and it is water resistant, so the product is highly suitable for the construction of wet rooms.
Places of use
The solution is good for both renovation and construction of new buildings.
Installing the Tycroc UHP underfloor heating panels the underlying surface has to be level, dry, strong, rigid and stable. It also has to be free from dirt, oil or other lubricants and it cannot be frozen. If necessary, the underlying surface has to be levelled using products for intended use.
The Tycroc UHP is suitable for installing onto a bearing surface, both onto a wooden structure (for example boarding, OSB board, plywood, etc.) as well as onto a concrete surface. Glued Tycroc UHP ensures stiffer and more stable surface underneath the flooring. Using a Tycroc Fast FIX acrylic adhesive or proper adhesive for tiles (chosen according to the underlying surface), install the panels by full spread gluing in compliance with the previously prepared project. For the later floating flooring, it is possible to fasten the Tycroc UHP panels to the floor using Tycroc screws and washers.
Tycroc UHP can be used under all common floorings, including parquet, wood, ceramic tiles and natural stone. If necessary, the Tycroc UHP panel can be covered with concrete or gypsum casting and different ready-made dry floor covering materials, such as gypsum baseboards, cement fibre boards, or gypsum plasterboards.
The parquet, laminate and wood flooring are installed directly onto the Tycroc UHP floating and ceramic tile and natural stones are glued using the proper adhesives.
The conditions for the installation of the Tycroc UHP panels and the conditions for the subsequent installation of the floor covering remain the same regardless of whether the panels are used for the installation of a heating pipe or heating cable.
Detailed installation instructions on the page Installation instructions.
