If you have planned repairs and at the same time dissatisfied with the quality of heating in the winter, then this is an excellent occasion to install a warm floor in the house. Thanks to the installation of this heating system, you can begin to significantly save on heating if you live in a private house.
Warm floor is a built -in system of heating pipes and cables, which is mounted under a concrete screed during work on laying floors in houses. The heating of the room is carried out from the bottom up. By installing additional thermostats and thermostats, you can configure the intensity of heating. The system can also be programmed by you to reduce energy consumption in your absence. By the time the hosts arrived, she can begin to work in a more intensive mode.
Warm floor can be water, electric and film. They differ from each other depending on the heating element used in the system. In the first case, these are metal -plastic pipes, in the second – electric cables, in the third – a special film with copper wiring along the edges. Each of the presented types of warm floor has its advantages.
For the installation of a water -type warm floor, it is necessary to equip a special collector cabinet in the room, where a return and supply pipes will be connected, through which water will be circulated to heating the floor. The base of the floor is poured with a concrete screed, a layer of sound and thermal insulation is laid on it. Metal -plastic or plastic pipes go on top. They are fixed on a reinforced grid, previously laid, in a special base with grooves using wire mounts. Pipes are covered with a layer of concrete screed.
In electric warm floors, electricity is converted into thermal. On the heat -insulating material that prevents emergency waste (its departure down), electric cables are placed. It is better to entrust a warm floor in this field, the repair of electricians should not do it on your own if knowledge and experience is not enough in this. The floors are covered with special obscenities and tile glue, on which the flooring is placed. It is important to immediately know where the furniture will stand, so that in those places the cable is not held.
Film warm floor provides heating the premises due to infrared heat radiation. A special film is laid on a heat -reflecting insulating material that is closed with a moisture -proof layer on top.