sockets in floor + underfloor heating

[paul b b]

evening chaps,

customer wanted a 5A socket in the floor to go next to a sofa, but now she also wants underfloor heating, i guess this means no socket in the floor, but would like your view's.

she also wants a center island in the kitchen with power to it, couple of sockets and led lights around the bottom. this also involves underfloor heating. i thought gouge out 100mm of concret run steel conduit under floor and up into unit to box then the to sockets, is this ok?

thanks

paul

 

[kme]

I`d go a little deeper with the chase, if possible; otherwise sounds fine.

KME

 

[paul b b]

150mm sound ok?

 

[Evans Electric]

Plastic conduit would do for me ,with the RCD , no different to being in the wall. 100mm deep would also do for me. Avoid the heating loops of the floor heating .

Deke

 

[paul b b]

thanks deke, i will put cable in before pipes go in so they can keep away from me lol

 

[ProDave]

Are you talking wet UFH or electric heating mat?

Either way, I would have thought a socket in the floor is possible as long as it's planned for right from the start and a void left in the heating zone, and conduit or ducting included to get power to it.

Is it solid or suspended floors? suspended makes it much much easier to run cables.

 

[paul b b]

its wet UFH, the floor will consist of 8inch of concret, 75mm kingspan wet UFH in 75mm of screed

 

[ProDave]

I'm sure you could incorporate conduit and cabling for a socket while the concrete is being poured, but personally I wouldn't.

The chances of getting it exactly where they want it is slim, as chances are they will change the room layout when they see the building take shape.

If it were a suspended floor, the the positioning of the socket could be later in the build and the chance of getting it right would be higher.

If you do go ahead, feed it as a spur from an FCU so that if a future occupier doesn't want it any more, it will be simple to disconnect the spur completely and leave it dead