in my opinion there is not much point in having UFH and a rug on top. However from a technical prospective good quality wood flooring won't be affected by a rug. You need to look for retailers that guarantee flooring top temperature of at least 26 27 degrees.

Thanks - yes it does seem a bit silly, but we would want the rug for softness and cosy feeling in the UK weather. The rug will probably be about 4 or 5 m2 whereas the room is more like 20m2 so I was hoping it doesn’t matter too much in terms of heat output.

Hi Minipie,

Great question - you're right to be concerned about the surface temperature being affected when using rugs with engineered flooring and UFH.

We would advise against using a rug in this instance, especially a thick rug as the surface temperature will increase in that section and cause a 'heat spot' which may cause issues.

If the surface temperature will still remain no higher than 27C then you should be fine but it's hard to guarantee that with a rug. In addition to this, your flooring underneath the rug would be a different colour to the rest of your floor due to lack of sunlight exposure (although this would even out over months).

We hope this helps!

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