Why is a warm floor very popular, and only a few make warm walls? Features of the technology, which was tested back in the USSR.
Now you don’t ask anyone, everyone puts floor heating systems in their house. And if you clarify: "Why?" - then not many will be able to answer something intelligible. At the same time, if you say that you can still make heating in the walls, then most will twist a finger at the temple. Why do such similar heating methods have such different popularity?
Friends, welcome to my channel. Four years have already passed of building a house with my own hands, and I do not stop discovering some new things. The most interesting thing is that they seem to lie on the surface, but you just don't notice them...
The issue of heating a private house is one of the most important. And I take this very seriously... Perhaps even a little too much, because I still haven’t been able to decide completely how I’ll be heated when I’m finally in the house.
Convectors, underfloor heating, radiator and stove heating... I have already thought about all the most common things, checked something in practice (now there are convectors and a stove in the house), but I still can’t draw a final conclusion.
And then I get another idea...
It turns out that pipes with a heat carrier and a heating cable can be mounted not only on the floor, but also on the walls ...
It seems to be an obvious thing, but I did not even think that people do this.
✅But it turns out back in Soviet times, this technology was used, only it was called not "warm walls", but "panel heating".
Pipes were mounted at the stage of pouring reinforced concrete structures, which simplified and accelerated the process of building houses. This heating option was used in houses of series 1605, 464.1-515.121.91
Nowadays, the owners of apartments in these houses are already afraid to use old pipes and switch to wall heating.
But there are those who make such structures for themselves in private homes.
What are people guided by?
- A warm floor can no longer be made (the height does not allow, or there is already a finish), and convectors and radiators are not suitable for people (a lot of dust, uneven heating).
- Or there are problems with dampness on the walls, and mold formation.
- In this case, you can get a uniform comfortable heating of the room.
What is the physics of the process:
Heat loss through wallswhich make up a significant part of the volume of the whole house) go with the difference in temperature outside and inside the room. It turns out that if we heat the inside of the wall, at least to the temperature of the air in the house, then the heat will stop rushing out.
But there is one but... The heat loss of the heating circuit itself will be significant, especially with thin walls and poor insulation.
This is where the concept of thermal comfort comes in.
One I the same air temperature, under different conditions will be felt differently.
In winter, with minus outside, and in the house at +23 degrees, we feel good. And in the summer, with a plus outside, the same +23 in the house will already seem like overkill.
❗❗❗ The thing is that a person, by nature, best perceives heat transmitted by radiation (from objects), and not by convection (from air).
- Therefore, everyone loves warm floors so much, from which heat radiation comes, and only a little air convection.
- And from the walls, this effect is even better.
But what is wrong with them...
In addition to the fact that it is not known what the balance will be between the very thermal comfort and energy costs (maybe you will go broke on this comfort), there are a number of banal household reasons.
✔ Furniture arrangement needs to be planned in advance. Furniture near a heat source will dry out.
✔ You can't hang anything on the walls in the heating area.
✔ Wall decoration lasts less.
In my opinion, the best option for such a technology is a combination with other heating systems. And it is not necessary to lay heating in all walls from floor to ceiling. It is enough to do this in some problematic, remote or isolated places. And it makes no sense to look at people's reviews (they are completely different), because the result in each house will be different ...
Friends, what do you think about the technology of warm walls. Write your opinion in the comments, and if you have experience of using it, be sure to share it.
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