Easy Panel - Floorheater.co.uk - first level feedback

Jan 24, 2009 2 Replies

As I mentioned I got my 40cm square sample of "Easy Panel" from

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It's like Jablite, but with a firmer less friable bottom surface and 0.1mm ali foil on the top surface, with grooves to take PEX pipe for UFH. The nice bloke chuckied in 1/2 bag of Mapei Kerabond and an opened bottle of Isoflex admix.



Today, I glued it down to a bit of floor using just Kerabond and water (so basically normal cementy tile adhesive). I glued it to the top of a section of exposed quarry tiles that I'd cleaned off with Flash to remove any grease and dirt.



The "grab" seemed quite good. I won't know until next week when I go and inspect it how well it's bonded, but it seemed to be starting to bond quite well.



As it was partially stuck after 1/2 hour, I mixed up some Kerabond and 100% Isolflex (no water) and glued 9 15cm tiles on top, after laying in the sample of PEX pipe.



First impressions are good. It's got some give in it - but it won't like being bent too hard over a lumpy floor with compound slops - so I need to get my front room a bit flatter first (looks like 5 bags of latex screed).



I'll get some pictures next week and give it a bit of a kicking to see how well it's glued. I'm quite tempted to go with it. Bit of floor insulation and warm toes. Hmm... I might be able to bodge some hose onto the PEX and run the hot tap though it and see how it performs WRT heating.



Cheers



Tim


Hi Tim,

I'm looking to install one of these systems, how did you get on in the end?

Many thanks Peter

Blimey - you dredged that up fromn the past!

OK - I did not use it in the end. Stuck some Marmox down for insulation and left it at that.

Cheers

Tim

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