Baseboard heating: advantages and disadvantages

Many refuse to hanging panels that are sometimes not only prevents, but not included in the overall picture of the house. Using the Baseboard heating your room may look like this:

Baseboard heating - it's just a great alternative to warm the floor and radiators. Radiators do not provide such a thermal effect, well, heated floors rather cumbersome and difficult to install correctly. That is why many prefer baseboard heating, which until recently was relatively unknown way to maintain the normal temperature in the room.

Plinth heating system is of two kinds:

• water baseboard heating;
• electric baseboard heating.

Water Baseboard Heating

The main components of such a baseboard heating - baseboard radiators, the distribution manifold and tubes of plastic which does not transmit oxygen.

baseboard heating system can be connected to the central heating in the case where the coolant temperature is not more than 85 ° C and the pressure - no more than 3 atmospheres. Withstand these parameters need to avoid the so-called water hammer. When installing the heating, be sure to also take into account such

recommendations:

• Preferably use is made of copper tubes instead of the usual plastic.
• It is possible to use a heat exchanger which receives heat from the central heating and the Recessed via special plates of copper.
• Mount the thermostat to each of the radiator.
• You can set a special actuator on the special distribution manifold.
• Install the pump, a thermometer and a pressure gauge.

electrical heating

Baseboard electric heating simpler to use. Its main element is a special block radiators with TAN. Heater installed in the bottom of the radiator tube, the power supply cable is laid in the upper tube. The key requirement here - this is a complete lack of humidity in the room where you plan to install such a system.

Such a heating system is connected to a conventional standard outlet. System Power - 200 W to approximately 1 GMP.

The operating principle of baseboard heating

Baseboard heating is quite effective because the heating was not carried out air and walls of the room. The walls act as heat sinks to keep the temperature in the room. That air normally fed to the coolant plinth and came out without hindrance, in special boxes provided two slots.

For baseboard heating core - are materials that should have a high thermal conductivity. Heating the coolant to very high temperatures are not so important.

It should be noted and the ability of this system as a device that reduces the room temperature. Suffice it to fill in a special coolant. The effect of this application will be significantly lower than when heated, but quite noticeable.

Of the benefits of this system should be noted:

• complete absence of convection, which means - no dust in the air suspension;
• Baseboard heating is perfectly safe for humans;
• heat is distributed evenly around the room;
• boxes and walls are safe for human and animal temperature;
• dry walls and air;
• amazing ease of installation;
• the absence of any contra-indications for use;
• Baseboard look quite aesthetically pleasing, but also save space;
• substantial fuel savings;
• ease of disassembly and repair;
• the possibility of mounting thermostats.

The disadvantages of such a system:

• the high price of components - aluminum and copper;
• make the right baseboard heating with their own hands will not work;
• most admissible loop length exactly heating should not exceed 15 meters;
• any failure of decorating the plinth;
• failure to install close to the walls of the furniture;
• arrangement of the heating elements very close to the wall to quickly break up the coating walls.

In today's environment, when the materials used for decoration and construction, helping to reduce heat loss to all minimum, and installation of glass limits the access of air into the room, heating baseboard type has become quite topical.

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