Selecting the correct sized heating mats

To start with you will need to calculate the Free Floor Area (FFA). To calculate the FFA you should measure the room to find out the total floor area. You should then subtract from this any areas where kitchen or bathroom furniture will be placed, or where furniture without an air gap beneath it will be positioned. Once you have taken off these areas you have your FFA. For rooms of up to 8m², we recommend choosing a combination of heating mats which cover roughly 90% of your FFA, and for rooms larger than 8m² we recommend covering around 95% of the FFA.

Combining multiple units

110W heating mats are designed to be laid together with other 110W mats to ensure the perfect fit every time. The mats are wired into the thermostat or junction box in parallel, but it is important to ensure that any other mats used in the same room are also rated at 110W/m².

Simple and speedy installation

Heat Mat electric underfloor heating mats are incredibly simple to install, and in large areas can take one third of the time a loose heating cable would take to fit. The mats can be cut and turned to ensure that they fit the room perfectly, and for particularly complicated areas the cable can be stripped from the mat and laid as a loose cable. The mats readily affix to the floor with three strips of double-sided tape, and the strong fibreglass mesh above the cable ensures it is protected during tiling.

Approved and guaranteed

Heat Mat’s electric underfloor heating mats are independently BEAB and Semko approved, manufactured in Denmark in our BEAB approved factory, and supplied with a Lifetime Warranty. They are Semko certified as having a very low EMC radiation, which is a result of their twin conductor design and 100% aluminium earth shield.

Innovative heating cable technology

Over the last three decades Heat Mat have worked to continuously improve the design of their cables and mats to ensure their safety and longevity. This unique combination of technologies means you get a safe and fast to install system without sacrificing quality. Only Heat Mat’s systems include this combination of technologies:

• Litzer Wire Technology – multiple heating elements are spun together to provide superior strength in a very flexible heating wire
• 200°C Fluoropolymer Protection – super-high temperature fluoropolymer insulation surrounds the heating elements and provides superior protection against overheating and physical damage
• Kevlar Anti-stretch Cable – Kevlar strands run through the centre of the heating cable preventing it from being stretched and damaged during installation
• 100% Earth Shield – an aluminium safety shield wraps the entire heating cable to ensure the system is instantly shut down if damaged. The shield also enables the cables to hold their shape when being installed
• Anti-crush Cable Jacket – the high quality PVC cable jacket provides unrivalled protection against crushing and cutting damage during installation
• 100% Shielded Coldtail – the entire coldtail is shielded continuing the 100% electrical protection seen on our heating cable
• Cut & Turn Mat System – the cut-and-turn systems allows mats to be turned back on themselves multiple times during fitting, meaning less mats are required ensuring a far smoother installation
• Zero-float Mesh – the mesh terminates at the last row of tape rather than continuing to the ends of the cable, so none floats up when covered in levelling compound or screed