Now very popular is the warm floor, which gives additional heat to the room. Warm floors are of two types: a thin heating mat, heating cable under the screed. If you can not lift the floor, or the screed is already made, then heating mats will do. If the floor can be raised, a heating cable is installed. The heating cable is cheaper than mats, but this difference is not very high.
Making the right choice of heating
For a warm floor there are two types of temperature controllers: programmable and manual. Their difference is that a programmer can divide a day, a week, can raise the temperature at the right time. The manual temperature controller keeps the temperature constant at one level. Electricity savings for the programmable - 50 percent, manual - 30 percent.
There is also a floor water heating, which is mainly used in country houses. When installing the water floor, it is not allowed to connect the pipes, that is, there must be one tube in one room, such a system requires careful calculation. It is better, if the calculations will deal with professionals. But even to understand the arrangement of the floor will not be superfluous.
Do not lay the cable under the furniture close to the floor. Throughout the entire area of the room, the stacking step should be the same, touching, the cables should not intersect. Do not allow the cable to pass in areas with the danger of a fault, through movable joints, near fireplaces and stoves. The same system can not be used in rooms with different conditions. Very carefully, you need to do the installation of the finish coat, so as not to damage the cable. Floor coverings with low thermal conductivity should breathe, therefore it is necessary to leave small crevices under the baseboard, along the edges of the coatings for air outlet. See for yourself what to put, electric or water floor, better orientated based on needs and situations, it will be correct.
Good producers of water floors: wirsbo, rehau, nereus. Manufacturers of cable systems of the warm floor: devi, nexans, "teplolux".
Especially for repairing an apartment with your own hands.
