To be or not to be: will there be enough floor heating

Is floor heating to cope with the heating at home, or need to make a combined system with a radiator?

According to statistics, 85% of heating systems - combined, or those that are only used radiators. One floor heating to heat your home using only 15% of households in Russia, where, regardless of the region (in Siberia and the Far East, too). Whether justified concerns of people about underfloor heating as the only heating system, and whether it is possible to heat only the private house warm floor cover in this article.

Content:

• What should be the ratio of heat and heat to heat the house only a warm floor
• Arguments against the floor heating only underfloor heating
• Arguments for heating the house only underfloor heating
• Practical experience FORUMHOUSE participants

heat ratio and heat

How much heat must provide floor heating to heat the house? It depends on the heat loss of the house. And they always have zero heat loss does not happen. Heat leaves and window and door construction and, through walls, and ceiling.

The better insulated house, the more high-quality materials and advanced technology used, the less heat loss will be, and the higher the probability that the warm floor can compensate for them in the cold of the year.

The amount of heat from the underfloor heating must be greater than or equal to the heat loss.

The surface temperature floor heating does not exceed certain parameters. We collected them in a table, indicating a regulatory document.

In practice, the surface of the floor heating is heated to 29 degrees in premises with people stay time, in bathrooms, etc..

Exceeding this temperature leads to serious and difficult to treat vascular diseases legs.

With such a problem faced by many, including the user with the nickname FORUMHOUSE Shurigin.

Shurigin

Member FORUMHOUSE

Practical use of underfloor heating was not very comfortable. One gets the feeling of leg edema. In the bathroom, still all right, there is less total time you spend, but the kitchen is feeling markedly enhanced.

Much depends on the floor covering is made of any material. Calculations were performed for a completely identical buildings, but with different types of floor covering. Types of coatings are listed in ascending order of the required surface temperature of floor heating for heating:

• parquet
• ceramic tile
• linoleum
• laminate

You can create the required heating heat flow, but there is a limit beyond which it is not recommended by the warm floor.

Underfloor heating as the only CO - arguments against

1. Where on the warm floor standing cabinets, sofas, beds and armchairs, it is not heated indoor air and the furniture. When calculating it makes sense not to expect a total area and an area not occupied by furniture.

2. Large inertia of floor heating. Screed long cooling down, but hot and long. Turn on the heating for an hour or two will not work.

3. In-floor heating system can not cope with the heating of premises of more than 25 square meters, especially with large windows and other translucent constructions.

4. TP is categorically not suitable for heating vestibule.

Alero

Member FORUMHOUSE

Tambour - always a risky area for CO. Not all of these premises may be in the walls of the capital area, of all its heating options have to choose the most secure, deleted defrosting. If it is frozen exterior walls or floor, condensation "fall" will not, but frost - elementary. Exclude flow of warm air from the dwelling in the cold vestibule is almost impossible.

5. It may not be comfortable.

vladimirtmb43

Member FORUMHOUSE

The temperature of the floor surface 27 - 28 degrees. Feet comfortable, but the room 26 – for me hot. Doing less than what would have been the air 24 – feet are not comfortable, cool.

6. Due to the large inertia of the underfloor heating can not be configured for automatic internal temperature - only for external sensors.

Underfloor heating to only CO in the house - the arguments "for"

1. Real salvation for people with allergies. Dust and other particles do not circulate in the air, in the room with radiators.

2. The room is warmed uniformly, there is no hotter and cooler places.

3. Most likely, with the heating is very comfortable due to the direct impact on the flow of warm air rights.

4. The most useful health heat distribution. The warm air does not accumulate under the ceiling.

5. More opportunities for good design premises due to lack of radiators, pipes and other instruments.

6. Window sills, under which there are no radiators are ideal for indoor plants and seedlings.

7. Ideal for home, where no one for a long time does not live in the winter. Walled tube in mortar and they are much less likely to defrost than with CO radiators.

8. Of course, it is better with regions with estimated winter temperature is higher than -18 degrees.

Positive experience only underfloor heating homes

At Russia's largest construction FORUMHOUSE portal you can find a lot of feedback on successful home heating underfloor heating. Thus, the participant portal from Tomsk with the nickname TTJHe considers that the debate on this subject should mind you in the past - certainly, the warm floor can heat the house.

TTJ

Member FORUMHOUSE

Banner should be immediately hanged, in large letters on the floor of the screen: "warm floor enough for the eyes With a properly constructed house!"

Our Canadian members with the nickname Roracotta House area of ​​300 square meters. Radiator No - only underfloor heating.

Roracotta

Member FORUMHOUSE

I have a system that heats the hot water at the time of disconnecting the heating. Very rational option. The water is heated up to 30 minutes. During this time, the house never has time to cool down. But all you need to count. Heating is the most important and the main system in the house. It can not be here at random.

Our member with the nickname vlkam underfloor heated bathroom 3 outer wall, a half-brick, without insulation so even with the tiles on the walls.

vlkam

Member FORUMHOUSE

It is enough only underfloor heating at -30 degrees.

Summarizing

Cope floor heating, heated or not, it depends on the thermal insulation of the house. If the heat loss is low, then yes, I cope. If they are large, you need a device combined heating system. In controversial cases, requires additional calculations and verification: the heat loss shall not exceed the heat flow from the warm floor.

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On FORUMHOUSE you can find any information on the different types of the system "warm floor", Read the article about the features underfloor heating systems using metal heat distribution plates, see photo report, which tells about particular installation floor heating using metal plates and aluminum foil, and watch the video "Heating without gas: Utilities with their own hands.

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