If you have enough height in the room, a sub-floor is the best, cheapest, and most practical way to go. It is best to have a contractor do this for you, to ensure it is done right.
A sub-floor is a wooden floor that is raised above the concrete, so that there is air flow between the concrete and the floor. Once you have a sub-floor in, you can then treat the floor as you would any floor above ground level -- you can lay down wood flooring, linoleum or carpet.
If you do not have the headroom, then there are probably several modern alternatives, some of which are mentioned by other answers.
How much headroom do you have (ie, it is a basement or such?) We also had a room with a concrete floor that felt cold, not matter how warm the heated air was. We started looking a underlayments for the carpet, and found that they make thin electric heating systems - sort of like a heating pad for the entire floor. Wow what a difference!!!!!!! Some homes are built with radiant floor heating as the only heat source.......we use the electric underlayment to just keep the floor warm and comfortable in addition to the regular heat so it doesn't raise the electric bill much........and we now have a usable room.
If you mean insulation for heat and cold ,the answer it's carpet ,hard wood flooring .
For summer concrete floor it get cooler than any other section ,but same in the winter and it keep cooler again than other section .
The first floor are concrete ,cause of insect and rat and moles to resist any soil pest spices.
There are type of blanket sheet heater that they work with low voltage electricity and it rise the heat from floor ,which has very delicate heat in the winter and you can install it under the any type flooring .
Welcome to "thermal mass". Concrete is wonderful stuff, but in direct contact with it, it can suck the heat right out of your feet. Any damn thing that gets you off the stuff can help, even an area rug. Right now, I'm sitting over a slab that's got a framed-out 2x6 floor sitting on it, topped by 3/4" "subfloor", topped by "engineered" flooring lying on a thin but effective insulating pad. Downstairs, where I spend little time, there's just carpeting on the slab there. Choose the approach based on use.
lay down in floor heating and add a cple in. layer of concrete once more over it guaranteeing you follow the proper directions for adding the new concrete...bonding agent etc. Or build a sub floor with 2x2's amd a layer of 5/8 plyboard over that with polystyrene within the voids underneath the plyboard
lay down in floor heating and add a cple in. layer of concrete once more over it guaranteeing you follow the proper directions for adding the new concrete...bonding agent etc. Or build a sub floor with 2x2's amd a layer of 5/8 plyboard over that with polystyrene within the voids underneath the plyboard
In the UK they lay hard foam slab insulation and put flooring quality chipboard on top. If you then use a Pu foam underlay with a reasonable quality carpet it will be nice and warm underfoot.
lay down in floor heating and add a cple inch layer of concrete again over it ensuring you follow the correct instructions for adding the new concrete...bonding agent etc. Or build a sub floor with 2x2's amd a layer of 5/8 plywood over that with styrofoam in the voids under the plywood
here in the uk its a building reg that concrete floors must be insulated ...a common build will be ...excavate ...add 150mm of mot ..hardcore ...blind with sand ..lay 124mm 5" of polystyrene sheet ..with 25mm upstand around edge to prevent cold bridging ..lay 1200 gauge polythene membrane ..100mm 4" concrete ..65mm screed .....but you can lay concrete ..then membrane and insulation above concrete ..then cover insulation with chicken wire then lay screed
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If you have enough height in the room, a sub-floor is the best, cheapest, and most practical way to go. It is best to have a contractor do this for you, to ensure it is done right.
A sub-floor is a wooden floor that is raised above the concrete, so that there is air flow between the concrete and the floor. Once you have a sub-floor in, you can then treat the floor as you would any floor above ground level -- you can lay down wood flooring, linoleum or carpet.
If you do not have the headroom, then there are probably several modern alternatives, some of which are mentioned by other answers.
How much headroom do you have (ie, it is a basement or such?) We also had a room with a concrete floor that felt cold, not matter how warm the heated air was. We started looking a underlayments for the carpet, and found that they make thin electric heating systems - sort of like a heating pad for the entire floor. Wow what a difference!!!!!!! Some homes are built with radiant floor heating as the only heat source.......we use the electric underlayment to just keep the floor warm and comfortable in addition to the regular heat so it doesn't raise the electric bill much........and we now have a usable room.
If you mean insulation for heat and cold ,the answer it's carpet ,hard wood flooring .
For summer concrete floor it get cooler than any other section ,but same in the winter and it keep cooler again than other section .
The first floor are concrete ,cause of insect and rat and moles to resist any soil pest spices.
There are type of blanket sheet heater that they work with low voltage electricity and it rise the heat from floor ,which has very delicate heat in the winter and you can install it under the any type flooring .
Welcome to "thermal mass". Concrete is wonderful stuff, but in direct contact with it, it can suck the heat right out of your feet. Any damn thing that gets you off the stuff can help, even an area rug. Right now, I'm sitting over a slab that's got a framed-out 2x6 floor sitting on it, topped by 3/4" "subfloor", topped by "engineered" flooring lying on a thin but effective insulating pad. Downstairs, where I spend little time, there's just carpeting on the slab there. Choose the approach based on use.
lay down in floor heating and add a cple in. layer of concrete once more over it guaranteeing you follow the proper directions for adding the new concrete...bonding agent etc. Or build a sub floor with 2x2's amd a layer of 5/8 plyboard over that with polystyrene within the voids underneath the plyboard
lay down in floor heating and add a cple in. layer of concrete once more over it guaranteeing you follow the proper directions for adding the new concrete...bonding agent etc. Or build a sub floor with 2x2's amd a layer of 5/8 plyboard over that with polystyrene within the voids underneath the plyboard
In the UK they lay hard foam slab insulation and put flooring quality chipboard on top. If you then use a Pu foam underlay with a reasonable quality carpet it will be nice and warm underfoot.
lay down in floor heating and add a cple inch layer of concrete again over it ensuring you follow the correct instructions for adding the new concrete...bonding agent etc. Or build a sub floor with 2x2's amd a layer of 5/8 plywood over that with styrofoam in the voids under the plywood
here in the uk its a building reg that concrete floors must be insulated ...a common build will be ...excavate ...add 150mm of mot ..hardcore ...blind with sand ..lay 124mm 5" of polystyrene sheet ..with 25mm upstand around edge to prevent cold bridging ..lay 1200 gauge polythene membrane ..100mm 4" concrete ..65mm screed .....but you can lay concrete ..then membrane and insulation above concrete ..then cover insulation with chicken wire then lay screed
place some form of rubber padding on it