At the creation of comfortable living conditions in an apartment or house, it is necessary, first of all, to take warm floors. The idea itself is not new, but right now, with the introduction of new technologies, has become the most popular.
What is a “warm floor”?
The design of the penis with an integrated warm floor system
Generally equip a warm floor in the apartmently in several ways:
use insulation;
spray polyurethane foam;
lay an isolon or extruded polystyrene;
carry out the surface of the surface using fiberboard or chipboard.
just use linoleum with an additional thermal insulation layer as a coating.
But in most cases now, the capacious name “warm floor” means a complex system that uses different types of energy to heat to a given temperature of floor floors.
Advantages of the modern system “Warm Paul”
Does not limit the owner of the apartment in design stakes, t. To. fully masked under them, almost without “eating” useful area.
Saves energy resources, which means finance.
Simple in maintenance.
With proper operation, it has an almost unlimited uncontrolled period.
In most cases, the issue of heating of the apartment can completely decide or become an addition to the existing central heating.
The main thing, perhaps, is the advantage of heating coating – providing the specified optimal microclimate parameters in each room: temperature, relative humidity and air speed.
Attention: according to SanPin 2.1.2.2645-10 in the cold season in residential premises, the ambient temperature should be within 20 – 22 ° C; In this case, the indicator of its relative humidity should not go beyond 45-30 % at a speed of 0.15 m // C. It is in this case that the maximum heat transfer is observed. Installation of special distribution and regulatory reinforcement allows you to control the operation of the system.
By the way: choosing pipes from polyethylene, polypropylene and copolymers of propylene, stitched polyethylene, pr., GOST P52134-2003 should be guided. Similar standards exist for metal products, other types of pipes.
Significant “minuses” of water warm floor include labor -intensive preparatory work using additional means of mechanization; thickening of the floor (about 10 cm); preliminary “run” of the system with a coolant under pressure; dependence of the temperature regime of the apartment on neighbors; use of a circulation pump; With unskilled installation and use of low -quality materials, a leak of the coolant is possible.
Warm floor systems
Depending on the heating element used, there are two types: heating cables, film floors (with an infrared heating element).
Infrared heating: it’s easier not to come up with
Everyone can install such a system in their apartment for an hour or two, without even having special skills: the anti-allergenic thermal man simply fits under the parquet (carpet, linoleum), is attached to the wall, ceiling with ordinary screws. At the same time, the screed is not needed, and the overhaul for styling does not need. The floor works on the property of infrared radiation is absorbed by surrounding objects in the apartment. Grounding heat, they heat up, and then give the resulting thermal energy to the environment. Compact devices work at frequencies that are comfortable for human life, ionize, do not dry the air, which is important to maintain the parameters of the microclimate in the room.
Infrared warm floor – innovation in everyday life
What is good this method of heating is complete autonomy: you do not need to bring gas, specially prepare the room (3 millimeter thickness of the film coating does not reduce the volume of rooms). In addition, it is not necessary to warm the entire room: if necessary, it is enough to lay the system in a particular place of heating. The reliability of the system is almost 100% with the same high efficiency. Important elements are wires connected to the temperature regulator, a temperature sensor.
Attention! When calculating the power consumption by the film coating, you should be guided by an indicator of 20 W per 1 m2. The amount of energy consumption depends on the operating time of the system, the size of the heated area.
Speaking about the disadvantages, one can name the dependence of the quality of styling on the degree of roughness of the base: it should be perfectly even, otherwise the film will simply break. And you should not put furniture on such a surface: it will deteriorate from strong heating.
The core analogue of the infrared floor is characterized only by the type of heating element. These are flexible easily replaced without prejudice to the entire system of rods made of silver, graphite and carbon. You can see if you want to see how such a warm floor in the apartment is mounted – video videos on the Internet is easy to find.
Heating cables for uniform heating of the apartment
Visually hidden in wooden or concrete structures, a practical and durable cable system allows you to introduce any stylistic solutions in the design of apartments, balconies and loggias. Practically how much the housing stock is operated, the electrical heating systems will properly serve as the same amount. They will include mainly a cable directly, converting electric energy to thermal energy when heated; mounting tape for its fastening; Thermoregulator with a sensor (controlling the heating process) and a protective tube (for the floor sensor). The installation of the system is carried out in accordance with the attached instructions.
The heating cable goes well with the tile
The principle of operation is based on the transfer of heat from the floor cable, which automatically heats the air in the rooms, creating its natural recirculation. The depth of the heating element in the cement-sand screed is 3-5 cm, which allows you to warm up the element relatively quickly for 10 minutes, and then give heat to the space for 5-6 hours.
Attention: regulators by type of execution are programmable, overhead, built -in. They are mounted at a height of at least 0.3m from the floor surface, and if the system is installed in a room with high humidity, they are taken beyond its limits.
Depending on the cable used (two -core, one -core, self -regulating; with or without or without it), the volume of the living space of the room can decrease from 0.5 to 5 cm. But the flexibility of the heating element allows you to experiment with the shape and configuration of the system.
A variety of “warm floor” can be called a heating mat. In it, conductive veins in the shell are mounted on a special mesh with a given step step. This allows you to install mats both in a concrete screed and in the oil layer, which significantly reduces the thickness of the floor.
Eclectric warm floor regulators
A stone, tiles, porcelain tiles are considered an ideal coating on the cable. And the most significant drawback, perhaps, is only a significant electricity consumption when heating the apartment of a large area.
Important: the installation work of the “warm floor” systems should be carried out, guided by SNiP 41-01-2003 “Heating, ventilation and air conditioning” in terms of use of apartment heat supply systems of residential buildings.
Precisely because each type of “warm floor” has both its advantages and disadvantages, the final choice remains with the consumer. But the fact that such systems are the future – this can be argued with complete categorical.