Warm floor under a laminate with your own hands
To equip a warm floor under a laminate is a completely correct, thoughtful and economically profitable solution. Such a wonderful coating as a laminate, nevertheless, does not significantly reach comfort to a natural wooden floor. He needs something that will give him a barely special comfort to walk on him. This last touch may be the arrangement of warm (infrared) floor. Laminate due to its small thickness will make it possible to do this very effectively.
Warm floor under a laminate with your own hands. Technological techniques.
The best material for arranging a warm floor is a heating film. With the smallest heating, it provides maximum heat transfer, and the entire floor surface will be warmed evenly. The practicality of the infrared film heater also cannot be occupied – for installation, special skills and special experience will not be required.
It should be remembered that evenly warmed floor is completely not needed where you plan to put bulky furniture – cabinets, sofa chests of drawers, beds. To avoid unnecessary thermal costs, first plan the indoor interior. It is also recommended to install a thermostat and thermal controller.
Warm floor under a laminate with your own hands. Installation.
Left and cleaned from garbage, dry the floor.
Make hydraulic – and thermal insulation of the floor with special material – isolon (infraflex) on a mild basis. Polypropylene or metallized lavsan, but not aluminum foil, is used as a reflective coating.
Cut the thermal sulfate in strips and lay with copper tires down a pre -composed scheme. Fix with tape.
Make and connect all the necessary electrical circuits. Thoroughly insinterate the joints of the wires and ruptures of thermal.
Warm floor under a laminate with your own hands. Device options.
Installation of a warm film floor is the simplest and most economical version of the warm floor for a laminate, but not the only. In a private house, you can build a gender with heating due to the circulation of hot water along the pipes mounted on the floor. Stages of installation:
Compilation of the distribution circuit of the coolant.
Floor insulation and installation of heating pipes.
Laying of a concrete screed on top of the pipes.
The quality of the hydraulic system and its connection.
The lack of a warm floor with water heating is the high cost and complexity of the installation. The probability of leaks is practically excluded.