What is radiant floor heat the house

Various types of underfloor heating, we understand the advantages, disadvantages, especially installation and operation

"Reasonably believes that the battery - the last century in the private house building. Why do they need, if you can make a warm floor and enjoy life "- the participant with the nickname FORUMHOUSE Maikl8. Indeed, different kinds of warm floors in suburban homes are used more often. How good they are, what their strengths and what to expect from them, we consider in this article.

Content:

• Radiant floor heating: the pros and cons of the system
• Heated floor electric: species electric cable floor, their advantages and disadvantages
• Infrared warm floors: film and core
• How to choose a warm floor

Radiant Floor Heating

Radiant floor heating - the most common heating system for an individual house. Its important component - the tube of polypropylene or metal-plastic. Also, the system includes a circulating pump, a manifold-mixer, and three-way valves (the number of water circuits).

Here's how the system works: heated fluid moves through the heating circuit and its heat screed. The cooled water is drained into the return line flows into the boiler heats up again - the cycle is repeated further. Limiters built into the system, is not allowed to warm the floor above the set temperature.

Pros and cons of the water floor heating system in a private home

Water floors are divided by type of installation: typically poured into the tube coupler, but there are also grazing systems, wood or polystyrene.

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Placed on top of the lag board, 50 mm, milled recess therein for laying pipes, fits a foil further entering into the recesses (as waterproofing and for better heat distribution), stacked metal and plastic pipe. All this locked boards (pine 20 mm), cover boards polyurethane varnish on both sides.

Each type of water underfloor heating is good in certain conditions.

Easy and bystroprogrevaemaya grazing system is regarded as an ideal solution for panel houses.

Polystyrene system is recommended for wood floor.

Concrete system is selected for the capital, powerful buildings. She, as already mentioned, is more expensive, but it is - an indispensable element of an energy-efficient home.

Installation of the system of warm water is very responsible thing: leakage means repair subfloor, coatings and finishes.

Electrical floor heating

Electric underfloor heating is divided into:

• Cable. A heating element in them - resistive heating cable with a current-carrying vein, sheathed.
• Heating mats - cable mesh substrate.
• Infrared film floor - a film with carbon stripes.
• Infrared rod. Heating element - rod of carbon.

cable floor

Electric cable floor are usually fine in city apartments and country houses, as part of a combined heating system. He's good where it is planned minimum screed, or tile glue (which is why it so often hold in the kitchen or bathrooms).

This warm floor in the house is not suitable for the main heating, but it is good, for example, for heating in the offseason.

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The cable on the floor – it is not heating and reheating with all the consequences.

In an electric resistive or semi self-regulating cable may be used. The resistance may be a single core or two-core (depends on method of laying floor heating, two-core is much more convenient), a self-regulating - only two-core.

Consider the characteristics of different types of cables.

Single-wire resistive cable.

Unheated end connected to a temperature controller, "snake" is placed under the floor of the main the cable is pulled in the second unheated end of the initial connection, and is also connected to the thermostat.

Advantages:

· The maximum heating temperature is several times higher than that
two-wire.

· It consumes little electricity.

· It should be inexpensive.

Disadvantages:

· In the resistive cable uniform heat transfer in all areas,
possible overheating of the floor covering under furniture and the system output
out of service.

· It is better that the heating cable under large furniture was not - it
will have to be provided in the design.

Two-wire resistive cable.

It is sufficient to connect one end of the thermostat. It is convenient for a large area and a complicated layout of the house.

Advantages:

· Easy to install, can be laid teplokanal high complexity.

· Stress, which passes through the wire, does not affect the
electromagnetic pulses.

Disadvantages are similar to single-core variants.

Self-regulating cables.

Two conducting wires in contact with the matrix formed from a special resin material.

Advantages:

· Depending on the room temperature changes by yourself
power heating.

· Well protected from mechanical impact.

· It can not overheat due to design features.

· How long it is almost never needs to be repaired.

· Compatible with any surface and for any furniture.

· Can carry out the contours of various sizes (and less than 1 m²).

· Easy to install underfloor heating.

Disadvantages:

· Dear.

· We need special ballasts elements.

· Provides a comfortable temperature only on the floor, not
able to quickly warm up the room.

When the device floor of a resistive cable matter:

• calculate the length of the cable;
• pay attention to the material (brass, nichrome or copper). They have different properties and parameters of electrical resistance;
• strictly comply with the allowable distance between the heating elements specified by the manufacturer (usually not more than 12 cm);
• properly perform calculations - it is impossible to remove or add a piece of wire to mount the stage.

When the calculations are usually guided by the following data (per square meter of the room):

• Bedroom - 100-150 W / m²;
• Kitchen, hallway, corridor - 150 W / m²;
• WC - 150 W / m²;
• Balcony -200 W / m².

A warm floor under the tile: the heating cable mats

The heating cable mat - the best Heated floor laying under the tile, because it can be laid directly into a layer (1 cm) tile adhesive. This task handle and thin cables, but their range is usually limited commercially.

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Manufacturers prefer to stick thin cables and mats to sell more expensive.

Mats suitable for all surface finishes. Compared with the simple cable floors, they are much faster and easier to mount - cable is already fixed on the polymer network, and it should be easy to roll on the floor. The mats used and solid, and twisted pair cable, and at the same single core power is about 15% cheaper. So the only difference is in the price and size of the electromagnetic field - the single-core is much stronger. If this factor is important, it is better to overpay and buy heating mats of twisted pair cable.

Another fat plus - if some part of the system fails, the other will work.

Minus only one, but a large - enough high cost.

Infrared carbon floors

Infrared floors consist of heating elements, filled with a mixture of carboxylic and fixed on the basis of polypropylene. Under the influence of current carbon allocates thermal wavelength of 8-14 microns; waves pass through the floor and is heated objects in the room (air - only slightly). The room is heated by infra-red carbon fiber floor, always very comfortable - no air-dried, due to which we suffer so much in the winter.

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Heats objects: a table, stairs, walls, and the whole point. You open the windows wide open, ventilated, and when it will close - again warm. Because not only the air is warm, and all around.

Radiant floors are not afraid of cold weather: it is possible to come in the winter in a cold country house for the weekend after a week of hell cons, turn on the system and it be functional and comfortable temperature is established very quickly (the system comes into operation in 5-7 minutes, but cools down a floor immediately same).

In the film, rod and the floor has its own peculiarities.

Heating coatings of this type are used for heating and porch stairs in private homes, in order to prevent the formation of ice.

conclusions

Each type of floor heating is good for their tasks. If the house is built on UWB, the floor heating can be the only way to heat, and is very effective. For this selected radiant floor heating, and if the house is not connected to the gas, and there are problems with the solid fuel - the electrical cable. The film selected for the floor heating some comfort zones, staircases, passages.

On FORUMHOUSE you will find an article with recommendations on the choice of a warm floor and detailed article about how the Radiant Floor; any information about electric floor heating and all the nuances of self-laying floor heating. Comprehensive information is provided in section FORUMHOUSE the system "warm floor".

Check out the video, which tells about the nuances installation of floor heating.

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