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The Claim

The Government of the United Kingdom has introduced a nationwide ban on installing underfloor heating in homes.

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The Short Version

The evidence does not support a UK-wide ban on installing underfloor heating in homes. Official regulations set energy-efficiency and building-performance standards, and ministers have explicitly said underfloor heating is not being banned as a technology. Reports using “ban” language are largely referring to possible restrictions on selling certain inefficient products, which is a different and much narrower policy.

Caveats

  • Do not confuse product-sales restrictions or ecodesign standards with a ban on installing a technology in homes.
  • Sensational headlines overstate the policy; the strongest official sources contradict the claim’s blanket wording.
  • The claim wrongly implies all underfloor heating is prohibited nationwide, while the evidence concerns only specific inefficient products, if adopted.

The Receipts

  1. Approved Documents

    GOV.UK

  2. Updating standards for local space heating products (accessible webpage)

    GOV.UK

  3. Conservation of fuel and power: Approved Document L

    GOV.UK

  4. The Building Regulations 2010

    legislation.gov.uk

  5. Search results for "underfloor heating"

    legislation.gov.uk

  6. Net Zero and Energy Efficiency – UK Parliament debate (underfloor heating standards)

    Hansard

  7. About the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

    GOV.UK

  8. Underfloor heating

    NHBC

  9. Building regulations approval: When you do not need approval

    GOV.UK

  10. Energy Security and Net Zero Committee – Report on decarbonising heat

    UK Parliament Committees

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