From a theoretical point of view, heating floors are considered the most effective method of heating at home. The principle underlying this statement is that the heat rises up. Given that heat is radiated from the floor, this heating system allows thermal energy, more effectively scattering to heat the entire room.
Water warm floor
The effectiveness of other heating devices is lower, because the energy is emitted into the air, and thus heat is quickly lost. The disadvantage of this method of heating is considered to be a more complex process of installing underfloor heating, therefore, higher initial investments.
The technology of warm sexes cannot be called a modern idea, since the palm of the championship in the invention and successful use belongs to the ancient Romans, who arranged their baths and houses of wealthy townspeople, using warm floors through special channels located under the floor heated by hot air.
With the fall of the Roman Empire, the technology of warm floors was gradually forgotten in order to survive a new boom of popularity today. According to heating technology, warm floors should be divided into electric ones, which in turn are divided, cable and film and water warm floors are divided. We will not linger on the electric floors, but the structures of water floors capable of unloading the main heating system, or even replace it, consider it more closely.
The principle of the device of water warm floors is very simple. Hot water circulates through the pipes laid under arranged floors, heating their surface and forcing heat to rise from floor to ceiling – evenly warming the entire room. The source of hot water intake is the main heating system or autonomous heat sources (gas boilers, fireplaces with water shirts, etc.)
Installation of water warm floor
The popularity of floor heating systems is not limited only to use in the field of private low -rise housing construction. Warm floors systems are almost universally used in sports facilities, cultural facilities, stores, office rooms. To date, the most common way to arrange water warm floors is the laying of pipes and pouring them with concrete, although there are other technologies.
Places where the most justified the use of warm sexes include – balconies, kitchens, corridors and rooms of bathrooms. The surface of warm floors flooded with concrete is ready for the flooring or laying the selected flooring. But it should be remembered that a number of finishing materials have poor thermal conductivity and their choice for laying on warm floors, if not harmful, then deprived of common sense. These materials include wood, parquets, cork coatings, carpet coatings. Recommended coatings – ceramic tiles, stone floors.