New Underfloor Heating Installation Service

Edited by the Buildingtalk editorial team Nov 8, 2004

New Raychem website helps electrical businesses to offer an underfloor heating installation service.

So often smaller electrical installation businesses find they are the last-in-line to receive tools to exploit the potential of new business opportunities and specialist technologies.

Tyco Thermal Controls has recognised that installers can be given considerable help to offer underfloor heating in their core competences if they have access to practical support services.

Accordingly, Tyco Thermal Controls, whose underfloor heating systems are marketed under the renowned Raychem brand, has made available an easy-to-use interactive website www.raychemfloorheating.com.

This enables installers to choose the most suitable Raychem system for their project, design the optimum layout, select compatible materials and obtain a bill of materials to present to a wholesaler, containing everything needed to install the system.

With energy-efficiency an increasingly important consideration for clients, the site also provides a power consumption calculator to enable the installer to assess the installed system's power consumption, and thus an indication of running costs.

The new Raychem floor heating website features a design Wizard with all the information, techniques and advice required to enable electrical engineers to design an effective Raychem underfloor heating system for their clients.

Alternatively, electrical installers can choose to have Raychem engineers design it for them, free of charge, by e-mailing or faxing an outline drawing and relevant details of the project to Tyco Thermal Controls - either directly or through their wholesaler.

Using advanced software tools, the Raychem engineering team will prepare a detailed offer with the full technical specification, a bill of materials and an installation plan with circuit lengths and will deliver it back within 48 hours.

Raychem systems have undergone compatibility testing at leading building material suppliers in Europe.

The findings have enabled Tyco Thermal Controls to compile a comprehensive overview of the most suitable products within these suppliers' ranges for use with each Raychem underfloor heating system.

By using these combinations and following the manufacturers installation instructions the installer can be sure of creating a safe and long-lasting warm floor.

Within the Raychem family of flexible energy-efficient underfloor heating systems there are effective solutions for all domestic and commercial environments, any subfloor and all traditional floor surfaces, including wood.

With the help of this new website more electrical businesses will be able to offer underfloor heating in their core competences.