Underfloor Heating is No Longer a Luxury

For most of us, underfloor heating is a comfortable yet expensive heating option that allows children to play, romp and run around on the floor freely and adults to freely walk around home barefoot. However, with the recent developments in the heating sector, this heating method is no longer a luxury.

As energy costs increased, more economic methods of heating were sought. Condensing combi-boilers and heat pumps developed towards this aim are capable of producing hot water at a low temperature. For example, while heating used to require water at 80 °C in room heater radiators, heating is now possible with water at 50-55 °C produced by these devices. This requires the use of nearly twice the number of panel radiators used previously. So the increasing cost of the radiators used is almost comparable to the cost of underfloor heating. Together with the spread of underfloor heating, the sector’s infrastructure and experienced work force were enhanced further, and the entire sector gained expertise on the issue. Now a contractor is capable of purchasing the required components itself without needing any company “doing business on a turn-key basis”, and of doing this job together with the other plumbing works such as the installation of domestic water or drainage water lines. As a component complementing condensing combi-boilers and heat-pumps, Alarko Carrier starting selling PEXa pipes used in underfloor heating. PEXa is a derivative product of polyethylene used frequently in food packages, processed in order to increase its resilience to heat and pressure. BLANSOL whose authorized seller in Turkey is Alarko Carrier is one of the several companies producing PEXa in Europe. The pipe production facility of 35,000 square meters is one of the most modern plants of the sector in Europe. Its annual production capacity is 80 million meters with 13 production lines. Carrying out its operations in more than 50 countries, BLANSOL exports 75 of its production volume.