When designing and building a private house, you can independently choose the scheme of heating your house. One of the most popular way in recent times to create heating in a private home is the warm floor. It can act as an independent heating system and can provide an opportunity to get rid of bulky heating radiators.
How to make a warm floor in a private house
In addition, the use of warm floors as a separate type of heating can significantly change the design of your home. So, the warm floor can allow to create high windows in the French style.
Creating a warm water floor in a private home can also significantly save on heating. The fact is that the system of hot water heating of the floor allows each heating circuit to be switched on separately. That is, unused premises you simply will not be heated.
Water heat floor is the most economical type of heating, so consider the question of how to make it in a private home.
Work plan
Before starting work on the installation of a warm water floor, you need to draw up a plan in which you must identify all the elements of a future heating system.
Used materials
To install a warm water floor in a private house, you will need the following materials:
- Thermal insulation - usually expanded polystyrene boards.
Expanded polystyrene plates - photo
- You will also need a pipe for water heating.
Pipes for water heating - photo
- Also stocked with damper tape.
Damper strip for floor screed - photo
- You will also need a dense polyethylene and corrugated tube.
Corrugated tube - photo
- The pipe will be attached to the reinforcing mesh.
Reinforcement net for floor screed - photo
Surface preparation
It should be ensured that there is not a sharp drop in heights and construction debris on the surface of your home.
Preparing the floor surface in the house
In order to start the installation of a warm water floor system in a private home, you must first prepare the surface. On it, it is necessary to conduct work on waterproofing, and then place on it a mounting mesh.
As a waterproofing, it is possible to use dense polyethylene, overlapping its lap bands.
We lay dense polyethylene as waterproofing
At the edges of the premises, it is necessary to place a damper belt. It is made of foamed polymer and prevents fractures from linear deformation.
We place damper tape - photo
To the wall the tape is attached with screws with wide hats.
Attachment of damper tape with self-tapping screws with hats - photo
Then a heat-insulating layer is laid on the hydrolysis layer.
Usually, foamed polymeric material is used for such purposes.
Laying on the waterproofing layer of the thermal insulation material
A reinforcement mesh is laid on top of the thermal insulation layer. It serves for fixing pipes with a heat carrier, as well as for reinforcing a concrete screed.
Installing the reinforcing mesh
Installing the heating circuits
The heating medium pipes are attached to the mesh with plastic clips according to the chosen layout. There is a distance of 30-40 centimeters between the fixing clamps.
Underfloor heating - photos
Pipes for the warm floor are supplied in coils and you can gradually select any length you need when installing.
Laying of pipes for a water-heated floor
The contours of a warm water floor are laid according to the selected layout scheme.
Scheme for laying pipes using the snail method
Connect the heating circuit
This is how the contours of the warm water floor, connected to the water distribution manifold, look.
Supply of underfloor heating pipes to the
manifold. Before connecting the pipe, cut it perpendicularly, and then connect it to the collector.
Pipe connection to the
header A connecting collapsible fitting is fitted to the end of the pipe.
Put the
fittings on the end of the pipe. The pipe is fixed to the manifold with a union nut. Which is tightened with a wrench.
Collector overhead nut
Collector balancing
The operating contours of the warm water floor system may be of unequal length. Consequently, in each circuit the heat carrier - that is, the hot water must be selected with an individual selected pressure. The required pressure is set by the system of balancing the water manifold. To do this, the protective caps on the collector are removed and the working pressure is adjusted.
Testing of the water-heated floor system
Before proceeding to the installation of a concrete screed - the system of a warm water floor must be checked for leaks.
Checking the underfloor heating system for leaks
If you are installing a warm water floor in a private house in winter, then the system can be sealed with a compressor and compressed air.
After you are satisfied with the tightness of your system - you can start laying the concrete screed. At the same time, the water floor must remain under operating pressure.
Concrete screed device
A concrete screed or a cement-sand screed is placed above the stacked warm water heating system, which, after being stacked, is aligned to the long beacons with the long rule.
We make a concrete screed - photo
In this case, the minimum thickness of a concrete screed can not be less than 50 millimeters.
