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Carpet works well with EasyFloor. Select a typical jute-backed
carpet along with reasonable-thickness foam padding (specially designed
radiant floor pads are now available). Run a course of 2x4s on the floor
along the perimeter of the room to act as a nailer for the carpet tack strips.
Lay the EasyFloor inside of the nailers.
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Hardwood
also works great with EasyFloor. Engineered hardwood or
laminates work best – natural hardwoods certainly will
work. Laminates can be floated on the thermal mass –
first taping the joints on the thermal mass. Engineered
floors can be glued directly to the thermal mass. The
best natural hardwoods are 3/8” materials cut in 2” or 3”
planks and/or nailed, as appropriate, to a thermal mass or
optionally to a layer of ¼” wood underlayment material
that has been glued to the thermal mass. (Note, in less
demanding applications, plywood can be used as the thermal
mass thereby eliminating the need for underlayment.)
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Ceramic tile is the most efficient material for conducting heat
into the room. Installation is straightforward: lightly glue a
¼” backer board to the grid; apply thinset to the backer; lay down a
second ¼” backer run perpendicularly to the first board; tape seams on
the second backer board; apply thinset, tile, grout. The method is
identical to standard tile installation with the exception of using 2
backers.
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Vinyl flooring can also be used with EasyFloor. However,
you should install a thin wood underlay material on top of the thermal mass
to prevent the seams in backer board from showing through to the vinyl.
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