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Should Underfloor-Heating Installers be registered Plumbers?

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Question: Should Underfloor Heating Installers be registered Plumbers?
Yes - 9 (69.2%)
No - 4 (30.8%)
Total Voters: 13

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« on: July 26, 2008, 10:50:48 AM »
What do you think?  Huh?
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« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2009, 07:09:59 PM »
The heating industry should be treated as a stand alone trade and no different to gasfitting or refrigeration trades etc. believe it or not some of us out here are proper qualified heating engineers. However I do think some kind of registration or upskilling etc should be done
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« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2009, 10:16:10 AM »
Hi there,
underfloor heating is a very serious thing, if you stuff it up you really stuffed it up. Being a registered plumber does not mean he is able putting it in properly it just means "nothing". leave it up to a Heating Engineer. To do it properly anyway you have to get a heatloss calculation done to make sure you get the right amount of pipes in the slab. There is no rule of thumb to size any underfloor heating, every house is different (location, size, windows, etc.). Anybody, regardless if registered or not, who touches underfloor heating and does not know what he is doing will disapoint the customer only and he will pay for the stuff up.
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« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2009, 08:56:50 PM »
Most plumbers in NZ just dont understand heating let alone gas so it would be poor if they were registered by this crap pgdb, the question should be do we want to pay more fees to this stupid plumbers board. better still lets get rid of the pgdb because they dont understand about gas and gas safety NEWZEALAND NEEDS A GAS SAFETY POLICY THAT WORKS AND DOESNT COST US GAS ENGINEERS FROM ENGLAND ANYTHING AS WE WERE TRAINED IN GAS SAFETY
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« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2009, 10:55:20 PM »
Beware of change as it will only cost you money and possibly your freedom.
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« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2010, 04:51:14 PM »
Under Floor heating system

Under floor heating as was mentioned by Fedel64 is not as simple as it seems. It involves a lot of calculations if one is to get it working perfectly.
For any one out there who would like to know how an under floor heating system can be designed and where one can get the state of the art Materials and design Information. Please contact the, Uponor Company, their Website is uponor.de

They have an under floor heating design manual under the title of   Polycomfort Die Fußbodenheizung mit 5-Sterne-Komfort. Which in English means, Polycomfort the under floor heating system with 5 star Comfort. Try finding out from them if they have an English version of the same. In case they don’t I can help with the German to English translation but at a Cost.
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