Can you put heated floors under luxury vinyl tile?
Heat causes thermal expansion in luxury vinyl tile, making it an unacceptable flooring material for heated floor systems. Because of this risk, mixing heat and LVT can damage the flooring installation.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Using ceramic or tile flooring instead for heated systems
- 2Checking with the LVT manufacturer to see if specific products are acceptable
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
Where this came up
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