How To Choose A Heating System For Floor

Warm floors give the room the comfort and evenly distribute heat. The cost of installing under floor heating systems for the construction or renovation is minimal.

To install the system is necessary to lay the heating cable in the concrete floor, plug in thermostat and set it to the desired temperature. The finishing cover for the floor can be anything: tile, marble, carpet.

The choice of a heating cable can reach very high temperatures of the floor (up to 40-50°C and even the 90-100°C), but the building code prohibits to heat the floor surface above 26°C.

One of the advantages that are closely related to the physical device of “warm floor” is simplicity and low cost of thermoregulation (maintaining the same temperature in the room). Regulatory flexibility allows you to easily adjust mode “floor” to the mode of living masters, and not vice versa. Suffice it to say that, today “floors” are adjusted not only by turning the handle, but the orders can be given by telephone and the Internet.

Tips to Choose A Heating System For Floor

1) It is recommended that in areas with a permanent presence of people twisted pair cable with screen is good to use. Support space (hallways, bathrooms, pools, etc.) can be heated with solid shielded cable.

2) Installed power density should not be below 110 W/m2. Power of heating section is selected on the basis of 110-120 W/m2 of free space (additional heating system), and 130-150 W / m 2 (core).

3) We do recommend the installation of insulation (solid infusible insulating material).

4) Design, installation and connection of “warm floors” are best left to professionals.

5) Depending on your needs, choose the type of thermostat (with manual or programmable, for hidden and open postings, with a separate power switch for mounting in a frame, with the possibility of connecting the air temperature sensor, etc.).