7/14/2023 0 Comments Oneboard mashupView our complete list of local beers & wines, specialty cocktails, snacks, and sandwiches you'll find onboard our vessels.īeer, Cider, & Seltzer Wine Other BeveragesĬrispy fried chicken, bacon, pickles, buttermilk ranch dressing with green leaf on ciabatta. Replacing the existing flooring with the Torfloor boards was quite a big job (for me, having never done it before), but I had to move a lot of pipes around anyway and so would have had to take up a large proportion of the floor to do that.Delicious bites and spectacular sights. In fact, one of the quotes I received from an installer included the use of hardiebacker board with the Torfloor system, but in the end I decided to install the whole thing myself and simply got a heating engineer to connect it up to my existing heating system as I made other changes, such as the inclusion of a LLH, a new wiring centre and new controls.Īpparently, the Torfloor boards and the Continental boards (Oneboard?) are made by the same manufacturer, but just branded differently. I was always very sceptical about fixing plywood over their Torfloor system, but this had to be done to get their guarantee as they wouldn't recommend anything else, such as hardiebacker board, although I'm sure this would have been okay and would have provided a much better material for the heat to pass through. The UFH is perfect for providing nice warm tiles to walk on, but I'm not 100% sure if it would actually heat up our bathroom adequately if we didn't also have the towel rail, I haven't actually tried turning off the towel rail to test this. However, I also have quite a large towel rail installed so this helps heat up our bathroom, which is quite large. The floor is fully tiled and after 5 months there's no sign of movement and the UFH works well. I decided to go for the Omnie Torfloor system as it was cheaper than Continental and their website has a comprehensive over tiling document giving lots of information, which I followed exactly and haven't had any issues.Īlthough 6mm ply is the minimum required overboard I went with 9mm ply as I needed a little bit of extra height to match the depth of my shower tray (no other reason). I would appreciate your thoughts and guidance on the different over-boarding solutions. This feels like it ticks all the boxes (although I still have sheets of wood over the UFH), but it will be a lot of work! In this day and age, that's a shame given their are so many different products available on the market.Īnother possibility would be to glue and screw 6mm ply to the routed boards (meeting their guarantee requirements), and then fix 6mm hardiebacker board to the ply. ![]() They have never tested their system using Hardiebacker or any other type of board, only ply. The problem with no more ply is that I believe it is thermally insulating, so I assume it would stop the heat getting through to the tiles that will be fixed to the board.Īnother issue is that both Continental and Omnie state that unless 6mm or greater ply is used they can't offer any guarantees. However, Hardiebacker boards must be laid on a full layer of adhesive and I'm not keen on the idea of putting adhesive over all the pipes.Īnother possibility would be no more ply as this can be installed using grab adhesive, so I assume I could just run the adhesive between the pipes, like I would when gluing ply. ![]() I considered using Hardiebacker boards, 6mm or possibly 12mm as these are cement boards and so will be much better at conducting the heat and I get the impression they are just as strong as ply, if not stronger. While I understand that the 22mm routed boards require the plywood to complete their structural integrity, I don't like the idea of having wooden sheets above the UFH as wood is not a good conductor of heat. Because the boards have pipes running along them, the glue and screws can only be placed between the pipes. Because the boards are pre-grooved they must be strengthened by gluing and screwing a minimum of 6mm plywood sheets. ![]() The Continental boards are called oneboard and details can be found here.īoth systems are identical in terms of installation. The Omnie boards are called torfloor and details can be found here. My bathroom previously had 18mm chipboard with 9mm (I think) plywood sheets screwed and glued and then tiled over. They both sell a system using 22mm chipboard that has been routed to accept 12mm UFH pipes. As part of my bathroom refurbishment, I'm looking to purchase an UFH kit from either Omnie or Continental Underfloor.
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