The technology of warm floors is quite simple: the heating cable or pipes of a small diameter are laid in the floor screed, and the flooring lays on top. The system is equipped with a thermostat – mechanical or electronic. This allows you to independently adjust the degree of floor heating
Warm floor – principle of operation
Cable (electric floor) or pipes (water warm floor) give the heat of the screed, from which heat goes into the room.
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In general, we can say that this is a warm slab on which it is very comfortable to walk. At the same time, the heating circuit with a warm floor is almost perfect: the room warms up evenly, because, as you know, warm air goes up.
However, it is worth remembering that the warm floor can only be used as an additional heat source in the room. In order to warm the room in cold weather to a comfortable temperature, you need to turn it on in full power, which means that the floor will not be warm, but very hot.
Warm floor
And walking on such a floor barefoot will not be very comfortable, but this is not the only minus of the warm floor overheating. The hot screed can damage the flooring with which it contacts. Porcelain tiles, ceramic tiles or other similar coatings will transfer such a temperature difference without problems, but linoleum or parquet will have to be tight. In addition, the electricity consumption will be considerable.
What warm floor to use – water or electric
For the apartment, the best option would be an electric warm floor, because it is quite problematic to connect a water to centralized heat supply, and in principle it is prohibited. Yes, and if it were allowed, the work of the warm floor would be tied to the heating season, which is not too convenient, because the warm floor may be needed in the off -season.
For a private house with its heat source (autonomous heating), the choice of warm water floor will be an ideal and very economical option.
You can make a warm floor in any room, but manufacturers say that it is especially necessary in bedrooms, children’s rooms, bathrooms and corridors.
The effectiveness of the warm floor.
To increase the efficiency of the warm floor, it is important to correctly lay it. First you need to think about how to make heat, which is radiated by a screed with pipes or cable, go into the room. In order not to heat the ceiling to neighbors or the basement of the house, it is necessary to qualitatively make the thermal insulation of the warm floor from below.
For this purpose, you can apply slab isolation, for example, extruded polystyrene foam. Suitable and foil of thermal insulation materials. Choosing the flooring should be taken into account of its heat -conductivity, the lower it is, the better for the warm floor. Wood, parquet, carpet, ceramic tiles pass heat well.