How to improve the efficiency of heating the battery?
A typical pattern: the heating season has already started, and the battery did not really warm or turned off for some time, and then heated for a long time. Alas, the radiators can not always give the desired level of heat. In this article we give advice on how to increase the efficiency of the radiator to the house gets warmer.
What we have?
Increase the heat battery will help:
1. Installation of a radiator heat shield;
2. Installation of fan battery;
3. Radiator painted in a dark color
4. Increasing the number of sections (not suitable for winter).
Before beginning these steps, make sure the thermal imager house - it will indicate the problem areas through which takes heat. And really, what's the point to improve the radiator, if the windows or walls are warmed enough?
heat shield
Not a bad option - set behind the radiator foil heat shield. It should extend from each edge of the battery in the 5-10 cm. There are two types of screens: white and black.
The first reflects the heat into the room,
The second draws warm, heated and transfers heat to the room, as well as the radiator does not "wasted" heat wall.
The best option screen wall mounting - liquid nails.
Cut out the screen on the perimeter of the heat sink with a margin of 5-10 cm along the edges, drops, seal the back of the reflector and stick to the wall.
Fans
A second common method of increasing the efficiency of the radiator by the fan-Set him. Computer cooler drives the heat in the room and it raises the temperature in 2-3 degrees.
Dark color
If the dye pack of black ink, its efficiency will rise by 1-2 degrees. It is important to paint the entire radiator, and not only of the battery, but also.
The main drawback - the aesthetics! view room is lost.
addition sections
The larger the area of the radiator, the stronger the heated room. The only problem is that the section of the winter any more to add, but the summer is necessary to invite the welder from the housing.
For owners of private houses encourage better warm house and in particular its roof, because heat rises and escapes through non-insulated part of the roof.