Heating a Historic South Coast Icon Project: Hastings Pier, Restaurant and bar area UFH lightens the load for Hastings Pier Space is not the only factor to consider when installing heating systems. Increasingly, it proves a deal breaker in urban high-end property where every square centimetre counts and electric underfloor heating creates roomier interiors. Weight can prove critical too,as was the case with the Pavilion Restaurant & Bar at newly reopened Hasting Pier, East Sussex. The goal: During the £14.2m refurbishment of historic Hastings Pier, funded largely by the Heritage Lottery Fund, a traditional wet system was ruled out because it would simply have been too great a load for the flooring in the restaurant. The floor is housed within the original superstructure left behind after

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