Film warm floor by own hands

Warm floor as a kind of heating

The warm floor is a very popular type of insulation. It can be used alone or in combination with other heaters. The warm floor creates a comfortable temperature near the surface, which is especially successful in children's rooms.

In addition, the use of a warm floor as an independent heating element allows you to get rid of bulky heating radiators, and change the design of rooms, for example, design the so-called "French windows" - from the ceiling to the floor.

The film warm floor is very simple to install and use, and it can and should be mounted by hand. The film warm floor can be laid practically for any types of finishing floor coverings. Especially it is popular when laying under a laminate or linoleum.

Calculate the number of materials

The first step in the laying of a film warm field is the calculation of the required number of heating elements.

You can draw a drawing on millimeter paper and calculate which film footage you need.

When preparing the plan, you will also need to provide for the placement of connecting contacts and temperature sensors.

. The leveled surface of the room must be removed. To remove construction debris, you can use an ordinary brush.

We lay the warm film floor

We cut the pieces from the roll of the warm film floor to form the surface of the warm film floor. Note that the stripes of the warm floor must not touch or cross.

Warm film floor can be cut with conventional scissors. In this case, the film can be cut not only in the place designated by the manufacturer, but in any other.

When cutting, it is necessary to get into the gap between the heating strips.

The ends of the cut strips are isolated with the help of ordinary sticky tape. If the cut passes along a line designated by the manufacturer, then only collector plates will be insulated.

If you cut a heating element between strips, then you need to isolate the entire edge of the film across the entire width.

Prepared strips are laid out over the entire surface of the room overlap. When laying out the film, you must follow the pre-planned plan, and then mark out the places where the stitches for the electrical wiring will be cut.

After this, fold the foil and mark on the floor the channel location for the installation of the temperature sensor.

The width of the stunt under the sensor should be about two centimeters.

Also the channel for wiring can be cut using an electric puncher.

This is how the seating places for the wiring of the warm floor of the floor will look.

The wiring harnessed for a temperature sensor is placed in the channel cut through the wiring. For safety, it must be placed in the corrugated tube.

Perform additional cleaning of the room surface. For this you can use an industrial vacuum cleaner.

After cleaning the room, it is necessary to spread a layer of thermal insulation on its surface.

Then the strip behind the strip is laid with heating elements, previously prepared and insulated. .

The laying is carried out according to the previously created drawing.

Connecting cables in the joints are crimped into the contacts.

This is how the prepared contacts look.

The strips of heating elements are connected by means of connecting cables.

The contacts on the strips and cables are crimped using a special tool.

tool. Thus, the heating elements connected by cable are visible.

After connecting the heating elements, it is necessary to insulate the open contacts.

This is how the connected strips of a film warm floor with insulated contacts look.

After connecting the entire circuit, measure the resistance of the resulting structure.

A protective layer is laid over the laid warm floor of the floor.

Dense polyethylene can be used as a protection. It will protect your warm floor from water leaks.

One layer of polyethylene should go into the other by about twenty centimeters.

Mount the finish coat.

You can mount any floor covering on a laid warm floor of the floor. In this case, the laminate is laid on a warm film floor.

The laying plan and the recorded resistance value of the structure are marked on the reverse side of the warranty card of the warm film floor.

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