IR warm floor refers to a variety of electrical floors, because it is powered by electricity. However, heating occurs from a film that is heated from copper conductors. Laying the infrared warm floor with your own hands is not difficult and any handy man will cope with this in a short time. To lay the infra-red warm floor it is possible and under a carpet, under linoleum and under a tile. You can see all the stages of installation of the infra-red warm floor in the photo.
Contents
- Preparatory work
- Installation of infra-red heated floor with your own hands
- Video installation of infra-red thermal underfloor heating
Preparatory work of
Before mounting, you need to determine the area at which the film will be placed. Laying the infra-red floor under cabinets and sofas is impractical. Therefore, you first need to designate the area on which it will need to be laid out. Later on, you can put not heavy furniture on the floor - for example, a table, chairs, an armchair. The fact is that the thickness of the floor directly depends on the area it occupies. When purchasing material, the consultant must calculate the required power of the thermostat and the floor, depending on the area of the room.
Installation of the infra-red heated floor with your own hands
You must prepare the surface before laying. The surface is cleaned, washed out and checked for horizontal. If the level difference reaches 5 mm, it is better to align the base first. Then a place is prepared for the installation of the thermostat. To do this, prepare the shtroba to the place of its installation and drill a hole in the wall for its placement. From the nearest socket is a hidden wiring to the place of its placement.
To ensure that the heat does not go down into the ceiling, heat insulation must be laid. The thickness of the layer should be approximately 3-5 mm. If the floor is laid on the first floor of a private house, it is also possible to lay a layer of waterproofing under the thermal insulation.
If the IR warm floor is laid under the linoleum as a thermal insulator, you can take penotherm or isolon, if the tile is ideal for a technical plug. Thermal insulation materials are fastened together with a special adhesive tape.
In the future, they cut through the ways for laying wires and holes for fasteners. Next is the direct installation of an infrared warm floor.
The film is spread by copper heaters down, at a distance of 10 - 20 cm from the walls and a meter from heat sources, for example, batteries. The film is cut through the bright places, between the dark areas, put in butt without overlap and is fastened together with a scotch tape.
The edge strips are also fastened with adhesive tape to the heat-insulating mats. Lay the infrared film warm floor by own hands it is possible even to one person.
In areas where copper is cut, open areas must be insulated. It is easier to do this by bituminous film insulation. To do this, cut the flaps a little larger than necessary and the open areas are glued from 2 sides.
Then pasted areas need to be pressed into the insulation and glued on top with adhesive tape. Such insulation will be effective even in the event of leaks. On the surface should remain only the areas to which the wires will be mounted.
Clamps are attached to the remaining sections of copper.
Do not damage the film when installing the clip, otherwise the floor will soon fail.
The clamp is inserted under the film on copper and clamped with pliers.
Wires are connected in parallel.
This ensures high-quality operation of the system when one part fails.
The stripped wire tip is inserted into the clamp hole, clamped with pliers.
The joint is also insulated with bitumen insulation and fixed with adhesive tape. For more details on how to correctly make infrared warm floor, look at the video.
Through the grooves in the thermal insulation wires must go to the wall to the skirting boards and from there to the thermostat.
All wires must also be glued with adhesive tape. The temperature sensor is installed in the center of the 2nd section. Under it is also cut a groove in the base, and under the wire leading to it - a groove.
The thermostat is connected traditionally. In the contacts on one side, the sensor wires are mounted, from the opposite side - wires of the warm floor, and in the central - power supplies.
The top coat is laid on top. Installation of the infrared heated floor is finished.
