Heating the balcony of central heating batteries is strictly prohibited. To create comfortable conditions, it is recommended to use either convectors or oil radiators for the main heating, and as an additional one of the warm floor systems, and here it is possible to use the system of exclusively electric warm floor. Any system is suitable: heating mats, heating sections (cable), film warm floors. Of course, the arrangement of a warm floor on the loggia or on the balcony, which will have to be insulated, is not the pleasure of not cheap. However, in the spring and autumn, when the central heating is already completed or not yet launched, this system can work as the main heating.
Before starting the installation of a warm floor, it is necessary to insulate the walls and the floor of the balcony or loggia. Choose insulation with a vapor barrier layer. Joints that should not be in the corners are glued with metallized tape.
In order for the flow of warm air to go up, the heating cable sections (one – or two -core) are laid out on a cement -sand screed, a minimum of 45 mm thick, which is necessarily glorified by waterproofing and insulation. The best finishing material, which will be well carried out heat, is tiles. Such a floor is ready to use about 28 days, when the screed is finally freezing.
Heating mats or film floors are used when, in order to avoid maximum loads, a cement-sand screed with a thickness of 45 or more millimeters cannot be applied to the stove.
Heating mats are laid on the substrate (old ceramic tiles, concrete, leveling layer) using glue for tiles. After the glue is hardened by the floor, you can immediately start using. Heating mats are used only as additional heating. Their cost is quite high. They are easy to damage when moving or during work on laying the flooring.
Warm film floors are suitable for both additional and basic heating. The basis of this heating system is the heating elements -emitters. They heat not only the floor, but all the surrounding objects that give secondary heat and create a comfortable temperature in the room. On the film floor you can put any floor covering. A warm floor based on thermal male can be operated after the floor covering is laid, immediately.
For all the apparent simplicity, laying a warm floor, especially electric, should still be entrusted to certified specialists. If installation is carried out in old houses with aluminum wiring, it is better to lay a separate copper cable of more than 2.5 millimeters in cross section so as not to overload the wiring. Connect the cable to a separate machine gun of the apartment of the apartment