Can I add anything to the floor before new carpet

[JamiePattison]

We're changing our carpets and I wonder even though we are purchasing the underlay and carpet is there anything else I could apply on the floor to keep the rooms warm in winter and maybe too much heat out in the summer?

Anything worthwhile I could add?

 

[robgul]

What's the floor made of? - if suspended timber then insulation underneath would make a difference (see Gosforth Handyman on YT for stuff about this) but a major-ish task . . . if concrete then probably not.

 

[sawtooth-9]

We're changing our carpets and I wonder even though we are purchasing the underlay and carpet is there anything else I could apply on the floor to keep the rooms warm in winter and maybe too much heat out in the summer?

Anything worthwhile I could add?

Might help if we knew what type of floor you are covering.
Timber ?
Concrete ?
Stone ?
The answers you will get will depend on the quality of the question you ask

 

[JamiePattison]

Sorry just saw this. It would be wooden primarily which is the floor type for the bedrooms

 

[johna.clements]

Hardboard or thin plywood will stop drafts up through the floor boards.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

^^^^ and helps stop any carpet wear from irregularities in the floorboards.

 

[somean49]

i bought my house from a carpet fitter. when i had occasion to lift the carpets i found beneath the underlay thick paper (like cartridge/artists' watercolour paper only thinner) it seems to have been very effective at keeping out draughts and to have outlasted the underlay.

 

[johna.clements]

i bought my house from a carpet fitter. when i had occasion to lift the carpets i found beneath the underlay thick paper (like cartridge/artists' watercolour paper only thinner) it seems to have been very effective at keeping out draughts and to have outlasted the underlay.

Welcome to the forum.

I have seen newspaper under the carpet underlay in my house. Whilst it would cut down the drafts it would not support the carpet as @Phil Pascoe points out.

 

[sammy.se]

+1 to underfloor insulation, if you can.