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The comfort of a home depends not only on the interior, but also on the temperature. It is not comfortable to be in a cold room, and it also risks catching colds. Also in winter you may encounter the problem of cold floors - if it can be solved in the rooms by placing a carpet on the surface, then floor surface It's not very pleasant to walk in the bathroom and kitchen. A heated floor system will also come in handy in a children's room. It would seem that there could be nothing better than such a heating system. But it is worth considering that heated floors have pros and cons. You can see what it looks like in the photo.

Advantages of heated floors

Heated floor has the following advantages:

• comfortable temperature floor surfaces;
• uniform heating of the room;
• increase in air temperature in the room.

It must be said right away that a heated floor system cannot replace conventional heating. Traditional radiators provide the main heating of the air in the room. Warm floors can only be used as additional heating of the room. These are the disadvantages of a warm water floor. It is usually used to warm up the floor - nevertheless, walking on a warm surface is much more comfortable than walking on a cold one. But at the same time, thanks to this system, the room will be heated better, since another heating source is added to the traditional radiators. On top of that, the heat will be distributed evenly, as the room will heat up over the entire area.

Features of underfloor heating systems

The optimal floor surface temperature is 25-28 degrees. When installing the system, it is worth considering that the highest temperature will be observed at the very beginning of the water heated floor - as it moves through the pipes, it will drop. This problem does not arise with electric floors.

But electric heated floors also have pros and cons. First of all, furniture and some floor coverings can interfere with heating. It is also not recommended to install electric heated floors under coverings that are susceptible to fire, such as parquet. In principle, wood will withstand heating up to 30 degrees, but if there is no main heating, and the room temperature sensor needs to reach 20 degrees, it is possible that this material will catch fire. Read also: “How to make a heated floor in the kitchen - installing an electric or water heating floor.”

As for whether there is harm heated floors, then their surface temperature will be higher than the air. But this cannot contribute to the occurrence of a cold - on the contrary, you are more likely to get sick when moving on a cold surface. By installing a heated floor system in the bathroom, kitchen, or children's room, you don't have to worry about illnesses - as you know, colds often occur when the feet are hypothermic (read: " ").

Heated floors have disadvantages, including, for example, the inability to fully control the temperature. This mainly applies to water systems. The heating level of electric floors can be adjusted, if, of course, you purchase good sensor, qualitatively measuring temperature. Experts advise installing programmable electronic devices - with their help you can set the desired level of air or floor surface temperature, and when this indicator is reached, the system will automatically turn off. Read also: "".

Pros and cons of heated floors, detailed in the video:

Heated floor installation

The heating element is placed on thermal insulation material at , pour the screed on top and lay it flooring. As for whether heated floors are harmful, this statement is absolutely false.

Specific heat release is the main parameter of a heated floor system. It ranges from 15-25 W/m. To lay the floor, you need to choose an insulating material that can withstand temperatures above 100 degrees. Otherwise, problems may arise during system operation. Read also: "".

As for the fact that heated floors are harmful to health, this is absolutely false - heating the floor surface can only affect health in a positive way. But for such a system to last for a long time, it must be installed correctly.

Even in ancient times, a person, creating a living place for himself, tried to protect it as much as possible from enemies, predators and weather conditions, and to make it cozy and comfortable. This is still the case today: in countries where there are snowy and frosty winters, heating the home and work premises plays a very important role in terms of convenience and coziness.

Multi-storey buildings and private sector buildings, erected during the Soviet Union, were equipped. Such a system was easy to install and repair; at any time, the owners could increase the number of sections in the battery. Owners of private housing could regulate heat by changing parameters in gas boiler. Residents of high-rise buildings depended on central heating, often froze in the cold or opened windows in more warm days suffocating in the apartments from the heat. Thermal comfort during construction was not in the foreground. Since winter in Russia is still a very cold season, modern methods construction offer the installation of floors with a heating function. And the house is warmer, and the children can safely play on the floor without fear of a cold, and it’s pleasant to walk around warm coating like walking on summer sand.O warm floors they write and talk a lot. This is a whole system that allows you to heat your home, in which heat is distributed evenly throughout the room. The heat carrier is located in the floor. If water base, then these are pipes, if electrical, then cables. Water heated to forty-five degrees undergoes regular movement in the pipe; a cable connected to the network performs the same heating function. Electrical heat regulated by a thermostat, water - using sensors on the boiler.

If you haven't settled on any option yet, let's look at the positive and negative points such coverage.

Pros:

1. Save money on heating costs (up to thirty percent). The warmer the room, the less heat is spent heating it. If our feet are warm, we perceive even low temperatures as comfortable. Heat, according to the laws of physics, rises. That is, without heated floors, the warmest place in the apartment is under the ceiling. With heated floors, the temperature is even everywhere.
2. No special equipment is required for installation; faults can be easily fixed.
3. At correct installation such a floor can last up to fifty years.
4. The appearance of a heated floor does not differ from the usual one and does not attract attention like radiators.
5. Rising from the floor warm air creates an obstacle to the formation of drafts.
6. Ideal conditions for children's games. You can play wherever you want without the risk of catching a cold.

Minuses:

1. Pleasure is expensive. The cost and installation, of course, will pay off someday, but money is needed now.
2. It's not easy Maintenance, you will have to raise the floors a few centimeters, this is not always realistic. Now, if your construction has just begun, this is your option!
3. You will have to think about floor coverings, because, for example, laying a warm, dense carpet on such a floor will ruin all your efforts, and there will be no benefit from the floor.
4. Difficulties almost always arise with repairs. The floor heating system in the rooms is common; sometimes it is difficult to determine the place where the breakdown occurred. But if you spare no expense on installation and invite real professionals for this, and follow the operating rules, there shouldn’t be any problems.
5. All furniture should be raised above the floor to allow free circulation of heat unless it is made of natural materials, it is possible to isolate small but constant concentrations from it harmful substances when heated.
6. The flooring may warm up slowly (from three to five hours), first the concrete in which it is built will heat up, and then the covering and the air. But when the system is turned off, cooling occurs just as slowly.
7. When staying indoors for a long time warm heating gender, exacerbations of diseases are possible lower limbs(for example, varicose veins - a vascular disease of the veins).
8. Installing water in city apartments has technical difficulties and requires special permits.

Advantages and disadvantages of infrared heated floors

Half a dozen years ago, film heated floors were a unique phenomenon; today, infrared film floors are used to create comfortable zones in residential buildings, apartments and offices. Popularity and demand have created competition and, accordingly, advertising and product reviews, which can be true or fictitious.

In an electric infrared film heated floor system, the main thing is the presence of a thin heating carbon film, which, when connected, begins to emit infrared rays and anions. The radiation comes from carbon paste applied in parallel, straight or curved stripes.

On expensive films, the paste is applied in a uniform layer. To ensure that the heat transfers to the flooring and not the neighbor's ceiling, it is necessary to use a heat-reflecting underlay. If you can still lay the materials yourself, we recommend inviting a qualified electrician to connect to the network. Most markets now offer Korean-made heating films. This film is different good quality and reasonable prices, which, unfortunately, depend on the value of the currency.

Selection and installation of infrared film

The market can offer products made in Ukraine, the Czech Republic, the USA, China and, naturally, Russia. Increased competition expands the choice, but at the same time, the company, while presenting the quality of its product, often speaks unflatteringly about competitors’ products. Film infrared floors are the floors of the future. Hydrocarbon fiber is much more thermally conductive than many analogues used in heating systems. The most popular installation method is under laminate. This material warms up in literally a matter of minutes and can be quickly dismantled if necessary. But, covered with a laminate, a film floor still cannot be the main heating system in the room, since the quickly heating material cools down just as quickly if the system is turned off.

By the way, the film mesh can be attached not only to the floor. It is perfectly installed on walls, ceilings, and curved surfaces. Users come up with a lot of things: they heat containers with honey, heat various equipment, the bottom of a home pond, build greenhouses, and much more.

Myths about infrared heated floors

Many sellers of cable floors tell buyers a horror story that film floors ionize the room with negative particles. Some radiation does indeed come from the film itself, but the laminate, tile or linoleum covering it on top does not allow it to pass further. You can even do mobile system, when the heating film with a backing is laid under the carpet, and placing the wires and thermostat in a safe corner allows it to be used in cold period year, putting it away for the summer.

Many consumers ask whether the seams on the tiles, if it is placed on a film floor. If the installation was done correctly, the tiles will stick exactly as they would if they were laid on a regular screed. When installed correctly, a fiberglass reinforcing mesh is used and must be nailed to the floor underneath. fixed from tiles special glue, the layer of which is at least one and a half centimeters.

The water heated floor system is quite complicated; there are a lot of pitfalls, without knowing which, you can break a lot of wood and subsequently regret the wasted effort and money. So, let's try to sort everything out and talk about the pros and cons of heated floors.

Thanks to the benefits this system penetrates more and more densely into our modern life. Let's consider the main consumer advantages of the system:

Landscaping and aesthetics of the system

In other words, this is a comfortable temperature of the heated surface and a comfortable temperature regime in room. In addition, in a place with such a system, there is no zone of local overheating and barely warmed areas. There are no visible elements of the heating system. The system is not tied to the arrangement of furniture in the room.

In buildings with underfloor heating Heat is transferred not by convection, but by thermal radiation. In other words, the transfer of thermal energy occurs from one particle to another. The convection component is of course present, but it is no more than 10% of the total thermal radiation and in this case it can be completely neglected.

Versatility

The next advantage of underfloor heating is that you can use any energy source, any heat generator, any type of coolant and type of floor covering.

It is worth paying attention to the only nuance that concerns - this is if we are dealing with, say, laminate, parquet board, parquet or linoleum, here you need to pay attention to the packaging and carefully read the information indicated on it, you can or cannot use this type floor covering at .

Health and Safety

Another advantage of heated floors is that there is no circulation of dust due to uniform heat flows, and there are no electromagnetic fields compared to electric heated floors.

This is all due to the presence of constant circulation of convection air flows in the room; with these layers of air, tiny dry particles and microorganisms move, which can cause allergic and negative reactions to the human body.

Energy efficiency

Quite an important plus of heated floors. Firstly, the temperature of the coolant that we supply to the underfloor heating pipes is the maximum possible according to the standards - 55°C. In practice, this figure reaches approximately 35-45 degrees. Accordingly, this will make it possible to reduce the cost of heating this coolant.

Secondly, due to the uniform distribution of heat in the room and the absence of the need to warm up the upper layers of air, the average temperature in the room decreases by about 2°C, without changes in the feeling of heat by a person. This reduction in average temperature leads to 15-20% savings in energy for heating this space. This is if we are talking about premises with standard height ceilings up to 3 meters. If we consider an industrial or sports facility with high ceilings, then these savings can reach up to 30% and 40%. IN heating season, which on average in our country lasts about 200 days, is quite a significant saving in financial terms.

Third point - vertical distribution heat, again there is no need to heat the upper layers of air, which minimizes heat losses through the tops of walls and ceilings.

All listed advantages of heated floors, follow from the physics of the process itself. It is possible to increase energy efficiency by another 15-20% using various types of automation in our system, including weather-sensitive automation.

We are not always aware of how much this or that heating concept will cost us. We can see how much the equipment costs, according to the specifications, and we think that’s all. But this iceberg also has a small hidden part, which is significantly larger than its upper part. So, top part The iceberg symbolizes the start-up costs for equipment and installation. But a water heated floor system is not built for one year, but for many decades, so the hidden bottom of the iceberg shows the operating costs over the entire life of the system. We pay monthly for energy consumption, the more energy efficient the heating system is installed, the lower the monthly costs for energy consumption of our home will be.

Cons of heated floors

Everything is good and back side. And we should talk about it too.

The disadvantages of heated floors are as follows:

High inertia system

Impossibility sudden change room air temperature. Actually, we don’t always need this, unless of course you live in a country with a sharply continental climate. Where the daily temperature difference can be 15-20 degrees. Since in such a climate with heated floors it is impossible to quickly increase or decrease the heating temperature.

Exit: Weather-dependent automation completely minimizes the inertia of heat flows.

Now about the next disadvantage of heated floors.

Limited floor area as a heating device

Since the floor area is limited, there is a limit to the heating output of the system.

Exit: If we still don’t have enough heat flow from this area and we don’t want to use additional sources like heating radiators, we can use walls. Accordingly, we will receive complete panel heating our premises without visible heating elements.

Energy dependence

In some regions this is quite significant minus heated floors. In the event of a power failure, the boiler is switched off, circulation pump, automation. Against the background of all this, the only positive nuance in can be considered that it is possible to maintain a certain natural circulation, the gravitational component. In heated floors, this natural circulation is impossible due to high hydraulic resistance. Therefore, the system is truly energy-dependent, but at the same time, due to its inertia, it will take many times longer for a room with a heated floor to cool down than where a radiator system is installed.

Lack of air circulation

This is both a minus and a plus of heated floors at the same time. In the event that your home will be used more windows, be prepared for the fact that heated floors will probably not cope with cutting off cold flows. Plus, at a height above two meters, the windows will fog up.

“I reasonably believe that batteries are a thing of the past in private housing construction. Why are they needed if you can make a warm floor and enjoy life,” says a FORUMHOUSE member with the nickname Maikl8. And indeed, different types Warm floors are being used more and more often in country houses. Why are they good, what kind of strengths and what to expect from them, we will consider in this article.

• Water heated floor: pros and cons of the system
• Warm electric floor: types of cable electric floor, their disadvantages and advantages
• Infrared heated floor: film and rod
• How to choose a heated floor

Water heated floor

Water heated floor is the most common heating system individual house. Its important component is pipes made of polypropylene or metal-plastic. The system also includes a circulation pump, a manifold-mixer, and three way valves(according to the number of water circuits).

Here's how this system works: the heated liquid moves along the heating circuit and transfers its heat to the screed. The cooled water goes back, flows into the boiler, heats up again - the cycle repeats. Limiters built into the system prevent the floor from heating above the set temperature.

Pros and cons of a water heated floor system in a private house

Flaws	Advantages
Difficult installation. If in concrete screed, you need to wait at least a month before it completely dry. Need a boiler room.	Compatible with different types of floor coverings.
The initial costs will be several times (3-5) more expensive than an electric floor.	Very efficient system. The temperature of the circulating fluid is 35-50 degrees, this greatly reduces heating costs.
When this is the only way to heat a house, complex calculations are needed.	May be the only SO at home.
In case of leakage, complete dismantling of the covering and removal of the screed will be required.	Does not generate an electromagnetic field.
A wide variety of floor coverings are compatible with hydronic heated floors, and you can lay a carpet on it.	Does not dry out the air in the room.

Water floors are divided according to the type of installation: usually the pipes are poured into a screed, but there are also flooring systems, wooden or polystyrene.

sly2k FORUMHOUSE Member

A 50 mm board is placed on top of the logs, recesses for laying tubes are milled into it, then foil is laid into the recesses (as waterproofing and for better heat distribution), and the metal-plastic pipes. All this is covered with boards (20 mm pine), we cover the boards polyurethane varnish on both sides.

Each type of water heated floor is good in certain conditions.

Lightweight and quickly warming up flooring system is considered ideal solution for panel houses.

The concrete system is chosen for capital, powerful buildings. It, as already mentioned, is more expensive, but it is indispensable element energy efficient home.

Installing a hot water system is an extremely important task: a leak will mean repairing the subfloor, covering and finishing.

Electric heated floor

Electric heated floors are divided into:

• Cable. The heating element in them is a resistive heating cable with a conductive core protected by a sheath.
• Heating mats – cable on a mesh backing.
• Infrared film floors – film with carbon stripes.
• Infrared rods. The heating element is a carbon rod.

Cable floor

Electric cable flooring is usually installed in city apartments and country houses, as part of combined system heating. It is good where minimal screed or tiles with glue are planned (that’s why it is so often installed in the kitchen or bathrooms).

This heated floor in the house is not suitable for main heating, but it is good, for example, for heating in the off-season.

IN electric floor Resistive or self-regulating cable may be used. Resistive can be single-core or two-core (the method of laying a heated floor depends on this; two-core is much more convenient), self-regulating - only two-core.

Variety	Advantages	Flaws
Single-core resistive cable. The unheated end is connected to the temperature regulator, the main cable is placed in a “snake” under the floor, the second unheated end is pulled into the initial connection and also connected to the thermostat.	Maximum temperature heating is several times higher than that of a two-core one. Consumes little electricity. It's inexpensive.	A resistive cable has uniform heat transfer in all areas; overheating of the floor covering under the furniture is possible and the system may fail. It is better that there is no heating cable under large furniture - this will have to be taken into account during the design.
Two-core resistive cable. It is enough to connect it to the thermostat at one end. This is convenient for large areas and complex house layouts.	Easy to install, you can lay a highly complex heating channel. The voltage that passes through the wire does not affect the electromagnetic pulses.
Self-regulating cable (two conductive cores are in contact with a matrix made of a special polymer material).	Depending on the temperature in the room, it independently changes the heating power. Well protected from mechanical impact. It cannot overheat due to the design features. It lasts a long time and almost never needs repairs. Compatible with any surface and under any furniture. You can make contours of different sizes (and less than 1 sq.m). Easy installation warm floor.	Expensive. Special ballasts are required. Provides a comfortable temperature only on the floor surface and is not able to quickly warm up the room.

When installing a resistive cable floor, it is important:

• calculate cable length
• pay attention to the material (brass, nichrome or copper). They have different properties and indicators electrical resistance
• strictly observe the permissible distance between heating elements specified by the manufacturer (usually no more than 12 cm)
• perform the calculations correctly - it is impossible to remove or add part of the wire at the installation stage

When making calculations, they are usually guided by the following data (on square meter premises):

• Bedroom – 100-150 W/sq.m;
• Kitchen, hallway, corridor - 150 W/sq.m;
• Bathroom - 150 W/sq.m
• Balcony -200 W/sq.m

Warm floors under tiles: heating cable mats

Heating cable mats are the best heated floor for laying under tiles, because they can be laid directly into a layer (up to 1 cm) of tile adhesive. Thin cables can also cope with this task, but their range on sale is usually limited.

kjr11 Member FORUMHOUSE

Manufacturers prefer to glue thin cables onto mats and sell them at a higher price.

The mats are suitable for all finishing coatings. Compared to a simple cable floor, they are much faster and easier to install - the cable is already fixed to the polymer mesh, and you just need to roll it out on the floor. The mats use both single-core and double-core cables, and with the same power, single-core cables are about 15% cheaper. So the difference is only in price and the magnitude of the electromagnetic field - for single-core ones it is much stronger. If this factor is important, it is better to overpay and buy heating mats made from a two-core cable.

Another big plus is that if any part of this system breaks, the rest will work.

There is only one minus, but a big one - quite high cost.

Infrared carbon floors

Infrared floors consist of heating elements filled with a carbon mixture and fixed to a polypropylene base. When exposed to current, carbon emits heat waves with a length of 8–14 microns; the waves pass through the floor covering and warm up the objects in the room (the air only slightly). A room heated by an infrared carbon floor is always very comfortable - there is no dry air, which is why we suffer so much in winter.

Rava Member FORUMHOUSE

It heats up objects: tables, stairs, walls, that’s the whole point. You open the windows wide, ventilate, and when you close everything, it’s warm again. Because not only the air is warm, but everything around it.

Infrared floors are not afraid of frost: you can come to a cold place in winter Vacation home on the weekend after a week of hellish minuses, turn on the system and it will work normally, and a comfortable temperature will be established very quickly (the system enters operating mode in 5-7 minutes, but such a floor cools down immediately).

Film and rod floors have their own characteristics.

Film floor	Rod floor
Mounted without wet processes, dry flat surface under finishing coat. Installation is quick, with the ability to dismantle the system and use it again.	Laying is carried out in a screed or a layer of tile adhesive (2 cm) with mandatory thermal insulation rough foundation. Foil materials are not allowed for the coating substrate.
It is not recommended under carpet, carpet tiles, linoleum on felt - these coatings reduce the heating efficiency several times. Parquet and massive board possible if working temperature systems no higher than 28 degrees.	Self-regulating system: if the floor temperature rises in the area under the furniture, the power consumption of the heating elements decreases. And vice versa.
It can be cut into pieces and placed arbitrarily - this allows you to heat only some local areas of the room: passages, places where children play, etc.	A core floor can be installed in any room; large furniture and equipment can be placed on top.
If any section breaks, the floor will work as before - you won’t even notice it.	Thanks to the scheme parallel connection the system will operate stably even if several heating elements fail.

Heating coatings of this type are used to heat stairs and porches in private homes, to prevent the formation of ice.

conclusions

Each type of heated floor is good for its own purposes. If the house is built on USHP, then a warm floor may be the only heating method, and a very effective one. To do this, choose a water heated floor, and if the house is not connected to gas, and there are problems with solid fuel– cable electric. Film flooring is chosen for heating some comfort zones, stairs, passages.

What do you think is better, warm floors or radiators?

In the last few years, people are increasingly equipping their homes with underfloor heating systems, preferring electric or water installations. Surely, every potential user of such heating element It will be interesting to know what the pros and cons of heated floors are. This is what we will discuss in our publication.

Installation of internal heating systems

Before talking about the pros and cons of heated floors, you need to understand what we are talking about in general. Therefore, it would not be a bad idea to familiarize yourself with general characteristics this device, its implementation and capabilities. Once you figure out what a heated floor is, reviews of which are quite different, you can evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of such an installation yourself.

So, among the variety of such heating units, only two categories can be distinguished - electric and water. And if everything is more or less clear with the latter, they work due to circulation hot water along a pipeline laid on the floor surface, then electrical units are divided into several more subtypes, characterized by the type of thermal element:

• heating cable;
• infrared film heat source.

It is these models of eclectic floor heating that people usually share reviews about. So let's take a little closer look at each of these options.

Cable heating source

It is immediately necessary to clarify that the coolant used is not a simple cable, which we are accustomed to using for laying electricity in the house. It's about about a specific material where, due to the circulation of currents, electrical energy is converted into thermal energy.

Hidden heating blocks with a similar thermal element are simple. On a layer of heat and vapor barrier, poured concrete mixture, the cable is laid according to a special scheme, which is additionally fixed using cement mortar. During operation, electrical energy is converted into thermal energy, as a result of which, as current passes through the cable, it begins to release heat, which warms up first cement base, and then a decorative covering, which can be tiles, laminate, parquet, etc.

As for the shortcomings of this type of heaters, then, according to experts, there is only one - the need for a rather bulky screed, the thickness of which should be less than 30-40 mm. This, in turn, causes the floor to rise, which is unacceptable in apartments with standard ceilings of 260 cm.

Thermomat

Reviews of such warm floors are mostly positive. This option is also based on cable coolant, but unlike the previous option, it has a slightly smaller diameter and is not mounted as a separate element. Thin heating fibers are already sealed with several layers of special fabric, for the installation of which there is no need to pour a thick concrete base. As a rule, thermomats are placed on the floor surface, on top of which there will be a decorative covering. Therefore, in this case, an adhesive composite is used as a fixing screed, the thickness of which does not exceed 10 mm.

In this case, a special film base, inside of which conductive elements are located, acts as a coolant. So, when flowing electric current, the film begins to emit infrared radiation. This option is good because first of all the floor and all objects in the room are heated - wall coverings, furniture, etc. The latter become additional heat sources, releasing secondary heat from themselves. Similar system is the most advanced and progressive, mounted directly under the floor covering.

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Advantages of underfloor heating systems

First of all, it is worth noting the clear advantages of this heating option over traditional ones. wall radiators. And the most important thing that I wanted to say right away is ensuring comfortable temperature conditions for the floor surface. So, during battery operation, the air masses in contact with it are heated, after which the hot air rushes upward. When it cools down, it sinks down and as soon as it reaches the level of the radiators, it warms up again and rushes upward. As you can see, the peculiar circulation does not provide heating of the floor surface. Whereas in the case of a hidden source, heated air currents begin their movement directly from the surface itself, which ensures maximum comfortable conditions for our feet.

One more undeniable dignity of such units is the heating area, because the batteries heat only the space closest to them, and hidden heat elements guarantee uniform heating of the entire area of ​​the room.

Now let's talk about the hidden advantages and disadvantages heating systems. A small flaw would be that optimal temperature for humans it is 25-28°C. By means of a thermal surface block, the lower part of the room is heated to a height of up to one meter. Then the heated air masses begin to gradually cool, which is characterized by somewhat cool conditions in the upper part of the room. However, it is worth noting that such separation does not cause discomfort to people living in such premises. In addition, if such equipment is used as additional source, then such a flaw will not be noticeable at all.

The huge advantage of nodes hidden heating is the ability to adjust the temperature conditions in the room. If necessary, you can either lower or increase the temperature at any time.

The material will have an important role in the speed of heating and maintaining comfortable temperature conditions in the room. decorative covering, as well as pieces of furniture located in it. Thus, such blocks will not be effective if fabrics with poor thermal conductivity are placed on top of them: linoleum, carpet, etc. Therefore, when designing a unit, consider these pros and cons and decide which material is best to use to avoid heat loss.

One of the main advantages of hidden heaters is their safety. Such installations are not dangerous and will not cause harm, as is the case with classic radiators, which can get burned.

Comparison of different indoor heating blocks

It is worth noting right away that comparing heaters of different systems is simple and at the same time extremely difficult. The bottom line is that the use of such heating units is very diverse and in some cases the disadvantages inherent in the heating unit can become an undeniable advantage when putting the unit into operation.

Thus, the disadvantage of cable electrical systems is the need to install an additional wide tie. At the same time, in Lately this structural element you can play with it from a design point of view, for example, by lighting it along its contour, imagining the screed in the form of a podium. In general, there are many options to make this minus a plus of a heated floor.

The next thing I wanted to note is that cable source Compared to thermomats, it consumes much less power under equal operating conditions. This becomes especially noticeable when such heaters are used in conditions high humidity or for heating balconies. In the case of thermal mats, the power consumption can differ by almost two times.

Myths

1. Some users doubt the advisability of installing underfloor heating, being in captivity of myths. So, the first of them is high electromagnetic radiation, which leads to the development of cancer.

Electromagnetic radiation from heated floors, as well as from any other household electrical appliance, including Electric kettle, there is, but it is so insignificant that it is simply pointless to declare its effect on health. If you still want to protect yourself, choose a two-core cable for heating.

1. The second myth relates to indoor air quality, which, due to the constant circulation of warm masses, is constantly dehumidified, there is excess dust in the room, and all this together also causes a crushing blow to health.

To control the temperature in the room, a thermostat is installed, with which you can decrease or increase degrees. As for dehumidified air, this problem equally applies to radiators, so you need to pay special attention to humidification.

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