Make a heat accumulator in the basement, and you will stop freezing in the house

In every second country house, especially in a wooden one, you can't walk barefoot on the floor in winter - it's too chilly. And you can argue as much as you like about the required thickness of the insulation, the method of laying the floorboards (they say, "it's warmer without joints"), but the fact remains - the floors in a wooden house are a priori cold.

If you have a modest amount of 20-25 thousand rubles and skillful hands on the scale of building a house, you can make the floors warm even in a wooden house. And in this article, I have shared how you can do this.

Please send all clarifications, questions and suggestions in the comments to the article. I will sort it out and answer.

Most people have houses on a strip foundation. Air vents are made in the foundation, which allow ventilation of the underground in summer. For the winter, the vents are closed with insulation and wood. But in the very underground in winter + 6-7 degrees of heat reign, no more. And there are two reasons for this.

At first, the vents still freeze. Not much, but let the cold go into the underground.

Secondly, the ground is "cold" due to the so-called lateral freezing.

To make the subfloor another 6-7 degrees warmer, I suggest the following steps.

At first, it is necessary to insulate the blind area - it is not in vain that this is prescribed in the German building standard "PassiveHaus". Under the concrete, 100 mm of extruded polystyrene foam is laid, a mesh is laid, and only then the concrete is poured. According to the assurances of the German builders, this action alone makes it possible to raise the temperature of the basement or subfloor by 2-3 degrees. The insulated blind area shifts the red line of freezing further from the house by 50-60 cm.

Secondly, in the basement itself, you can equip a heat accumulator. They can be a concrete slab, also laid on a foam layer. If possible, underfloor heating pipes can be inserted into the body of the stove in order to warm up the stove in the cold - once a month is enough. For the money it is a penny, but it will add comfort.

The important nuances of heat accumulation were shown in this video:

Of course, you can do without a warm floor system - the largest mass of the stove will act as a heat accumulator - from summer to mid-winter, the stove will not cool below 10-12 degrees.

I have applied both of these solutions, and I enjoy the warmth of the floors, even in deeply negative temperatures overboard. Which is what I wish for you.

I leave room for your comments and clarifications.