How to make a warm floor

The house should not only be cozy and comfortable, but also warm. Many like to walk at home barefoot, but in the cold season it can be quite difficult, because the floors can be cold, namely, cold feet are often the cause of colds. Therefore, the question of how to make a warm floor is of interest to a large number of people.

This system can be located throughout the entire area of the house or in some individual rooms (for example, a bathroom or a nursery). The warm floor is made electric or water, depending on what energy is consumed. In apartments of multi-storey houses, the first option is preferable, since pipes in which water flows for heating can unexpectedly leak, causing damage not only to the owners, but also to their neighbors.

How to make a warm floor? The main thing is to lay a special cable or pipeline. After that, the cable is connected to a power outlet, and the pipeline to hot water. The device of a warm floor and in that, and in other case simple enough.

On a special heat-insulating material, the system is mounted, after which the pouring is made with a prepared sand-cement mortar. On top of this lay a floor covering: tile, linoleum, etc.

Before making a warm floor electric, you need to purchase the necessary equipment, which in most cases is produced in Europe. Further preparatory work is carried out directly there, where the system will be put. Often, the electrodes are made in separate rooms, for example, in the bathroom or in the kitchen, and not over the entire area. The material that is most often chosen for flooring is tiles. Besides the floor itself, you need to clean and prepare a place on the wall where there will be an electric temperature thermostat.

In some cases, in addition to thermal insulation, make a waterproofing to avoid the formation of condensation, which may appear next to the heating cable. For this purpose, such material as polyethylene film is suitable. For insulation use penofol. It is thin and light, has a high thermal conductivity. It is necessary to take into account before making a warm floor, which, perhaps, will reduce the space, but modern technologies and materials allow to reduce this deficiency to a minimum.

So, a reinforcing mesh is placed on the heater from above, the main tasks of which are to prevent the cable from overheating from contact with heat insulation and to increase the strength of the solution, which everything will be poured. Before pouring, it is necessary to check once again whether the installation has been made correctly, since in the event of errors in the subsequent it will be necessary to dismantle the screed to fix them. Despite the high efficiency, the electric power has such a disadvantage as high energy consumption. In addition, the system must be turned on only after the screed has dried, and this can take up to a month and a half.

Talking about how to make a water-heated floor, it should be noted that the technology is similar to the previous one. However instead of a cable on a heater are laid out pipes. They are better to take zinc-coated or copper. At the same time, metal-plastic products are highly resistant. It is better to take a one-piece pipeline, since pieces that are connected to each other can flow over time, and to eliminate this defect it is necessary to disassemble the entire floor.

Unlike the electric cable, the pipes are not afraid of overheating, so a more massive reinforcement is used here, since this system weighs a lot. Before you make a floor heating, you need to take into account its shortcomings. For example, when it is heated, it is possible to reduce the water temperature in the pipelines of neighboring apartments.