School repair: how to install a warm floor with your own hands
Today there are two main types on the marketWarm floors, which differ in type of coolant: electric and water. Each of them has its own advantages and disadvantages. So, the main advantage of the electrical floor is that it can be used in apartments and easier to install and repair. At the same time, the water floor is better suited for owners of country houses, where you should not be afraid that you can pour the neighbors, and also do not need to be connected to centralized heating.
Water warm floors are more uniformdistribution of temperature, and also allow to save considerably on the payment of bills for electricity, since hot water significantly warms the room with a lower consumption of resources. At the same time, most people who decide to purchase this type of heating system are asked two main questions - how to properly install a warm floor and can it be done on their own? In this article we will try to help you understand this issue.
How to install a warm floor
At the preliminary stage,what type of floor heating you have chosen, you should prepare the room in which it will be mounted. The floor should be thoroughly cleaned and leveled using a cement-sand or self-leveling mixture. In addition, for installation of an electric warm floor in advance, you should take care of the preparation of an additional line of wiring, and for water purchase all necessary materials, including thermal insulation.
How to install a water-heated floor
After the preliminary work is completed,The floor screed is already dry, you can start assembling the heating system itself. Before installing water warm floors, lay on the screed heat insulation material, for example, polystyrene or expanded polystyrene. This is necessary in order for the heat to rise exclusively upwards, and not go down.
The next step is to fix the perimeterpremises, on the walls of the damper tape, the main purpose of which is to compensate for the thermal expansion of concrete during operation. The next layer should be laid reinforcement mesh, to which our pipes will be fastened. Laying pipes can be made in various ways: a snake, a spiral, a double snake or their combinations, at a distance from each other from 10 to 35 centimeters.
Mount the pipes to the reinforcing mesh is recommendedapproximately every meter with special clamps, and do not tighten them too much, as the pipes will expand when heated. This completes all the basic work, you can connect the entire circuit to the pump and test the system with a pressure 1.5 times higher than usual. If no problems have arisen, we make an ordinary screed from the DSP over our warm floor, above which it is already possible to lay the floor covering.
How to install an electric floor heating
As mentioned above, it is highly desirable forconnect the electrical floor to make an additional line of electrical wiring and a separate automatic. This requirement is due to the fact that the system will work almost continuously, which means that if you turn on the powerful household appliances (hair dryers, microwave ovens, etc.), the automation may fail, and electricity will be cut off throughout the house.
Further on an even and clean surface we layheat-insulating material (if the heat loss in the room is low enough, then it can and should not be used), for example, mineral wool or styrofoam. Directly on the heater we lay the mounting tape for the warm floor in steps from half a meter to a meter. Next, attach to the mounting tape itself cable warm floor in the form of a snake.
In doing so, make sure that the cableNowhere crossed and was not damaged. At the final stage between the individual cable lines (without crossing them) we attach a plastic tube with a temperature sensor to the mounting tape and connect the temperature controller, we check the entire system. Now it remains only to fill the screed and wait until it dries.
Author: Vyacheslav Kinko
