About Underfloor Heating

All through the ages one of the main concerns of man, besides food, has been finding shelter and warmth. Simon Green, category marketing manager at Wavin Plastics, comments on one of the most modern and innovative systems available today - underfloor heating. It is often forgotten, that the method of heating a dwelling through its floors has been practised since Roman times.

Roman engineers perfected a central heating system in which underfloor cavities where flooded with hot air and gases heated by a furnace.

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