Underfloor heating milling
If you’d like underfloor heating installed in your home, we’ve got great news – it can be done, and we’re the team to do it. From system design through to installation, testing and commissioning, we take care of the entire process.
Underfloor heating is a popular choice when extending or renovating a home. In new extensions, installation is straightforward: the pipework is clipped to insulation boards and then screeded over, fully encasing the pipes. This creates an efficient, comfortable heating system that works brilliantly in new spaces.
Traditionally, underfloor heating would be installed only in the extension, with radiators serving the rest of the ground floor. In reality, if given the choice (and the budget), most homeowners would prefer underfloor heating throughout – especially with the rise of open-plan living.
Open-plan layouts mean the old and new parts of the house flow together, and having one area heated by radiators and another by underfloor heating can feel inconsistent. Naturally, this raises questions about how underfloor heating can be installed in existing areas without major disruption.
That’s where underfloor heating floor milling comes in.
Overlay boards vs floor milling
One option is to use overlay boards with pre-formed channels for pipework. While effective, this method raises floor levels by around 20mm. This often means trimming doors, adjusting skirting boards, and potentially adding trims – all of which increase cost and disruption.
Our preferred solution is floor milling.
How floor milling works
Using our specialist milling machine, we cut precise channels directly into your existing screed floor.
The process is simple and efficient:
- We mark out the pipe routes
- Channels are milled into the screed
- Pipes are laid neatly into the channels and connected to the manifold
- The system is pressure tested
- A specialist adhesive is poured over the pipes, leaving the floor level exactly as it was
Once complete, you’d never know the floor had been touched.
Best of all, there’s no need to trim doors or skirting boards, saving both time and money.
Floor Milling FAQs
Yes. There are a number of ways in which to do so, but we believe our milling machine is the best and most cost-effective solution.
No. This process is dust-free as we have top-of-the-range dust extraction units.
Floor milling is generally more affordable than overlay board systems – especially when you factor in the savings on carpentry and additional finishing work
First we draw our guide lines
Then we mill the grooves and add the piping
Finally we add 2 layers of levelling compound
Floor milling – where we work:
We offer the Underfloor Milling service in the following areas.
- Aylesbury
- Banbury
- Bedford
- Bicester
- Birmingham
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridge
- Coventry
- Derby
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- High Wycombe
- Kettering
- Leamington Spa
- Leicester
- London
- Manchester
- Milton Keynes
- Northampton
- Nottingham
- Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- Reading
- Southampton
- Staffordshire
- Stratford Upon Avon
- Warwick
- Warwickshire
- Wolverhampton
- Worcester
