Warm floor under the tile;which is better to choose

The laying of a warm floor under a tile is not a difficult task, but nevertheless requires a lot of attention and a thorough approach. In this article, we will look at the main types of warm floors, and also understand the optimal solutions that exist now on the market.

Warm floor under the tile which is better to choose

Ceramic tiles, as many "advisers" assure it does not have the best parameters for styling in an apartment / house, it is cold enough to walk on it barefoot in the summer, and in the winter season without slippers onit can not stand up. In fact, this is partly true.

But please note that in addition to this minus, ceramic tiles have one essential advantage: it has excellent heat conductivity, which results in rapid warming up and keeping heat inside for a long time.

What kind of floor can I lay on a tile?

As we have already described, ceramic tiles have excellent thermal insulation properties, and ceramic tiles are quite unpretentious to heating elements, which can be:

• Water floor;
• Electric floor;

Water heat floor - a scheme in which hot water will circulate through pipes, pipes can be both metal plastic and copper. The pipes are connected to the central heating as a boiler or stove( in their house), if it is an apartment, then an excellent solution will be to connect to the heating plant.

Scheme of the water-heated floor for the tile

When choosing a water-heated floor under the tile, note that its maintenance and maintenance in the future will cost you less than its counterparts, but you will have to spend money on its installation / installation.

Electric underfloor heating - is the most popular solution for floor heating, the principle of operation is a special electrical cable that decomposes onto the entire surface of the floor as a result of which the surface is heated. There are several ways to lay the warm floor:

1. With heating mats;
2. Cable laying type;
3. Film type of piling;

Scheme for laying the electrical floor

Laying the hot water floor under the tile

1. Attaching the damper band around the perimeter. First of all, we put the damper tape, the installation takes place on the flattened leveled surface to the concrete base, the fastening should be done using screws or special umbrellas.
   

   Correct installation of a damper tape

2. The next step is the laying of a special reflective film. The film should be tightly pressed to the styrofoam and foaming tape, you can use scotch tape.
   

   We lay a special reflective film

3. The next step is laying the pipes of the water-heated floor. In this case, special metal-plastic pipes are used, which are laid on the grid. Note that it is necessary to indent the walls while indenting from 10 to 30 cm.
   

   Laying the pipes of the water-heated floor

4. Bending the metal-plastic pipe is quite simple. No special equipment is required for this. Watching the video.
5. Pipe laying must be done on a special mesh and move proceeding from the guides on the mesh.
   

   Sample laying pipes for the water-heated floor

6. Then the installation of the thermostat, as well as the sensors, takes place. More about this you can read on our website about the water-heated floor with your own hands.
7. And the final stage is the floor screed and the process

Layout of the pipes of the hot water floor

Video - installation of the hot water floor

Laying of the electric underfloor heating for the tile

1. The process of laying the electric warm floor differs slightly from the water version. We make the layout of the room where the sheets of the electrical floor will fit, it is necessary in order to understand where furniture, cabinets, etc. will be located. Why do you ask?extra work?not at all!.The circuit is necessary to understand where to place the heating mats, thus not to spend extra electricity for floor heating, for example under a cabinet or sofa, and also if we install a cabinet on the electric floor, then the entire heating system may suffer. We make the wall in the wall to connect the thermostat.
   

   Make a wall in the wall to connect the thermostat and the temperature sensor

2. Prepare the base for laying the warm floor, to do this, clean the surface and remove construction debris.
   

   We lay the heating mats of the electric cable

3. After we have completed the installation of the heating mats, it is necessary to check the operability of the structure.
   

   We check the operation of the

4. system. So the heating mats of the electric cable are fixed, the system's operation is checked. Now start laying the glue on the heating mats.
   

   Application of glue on non-heating mats

5. The next step is laying ceramic tiles. Please note that it is possible to start the operation of the warm floor( start walking on the tile) only after the glue has dried completely - this occurs on average 10 days after the installation is completed.
   

   Laying ceramic tiles

6. Now it's time to start connecting the electrical floor to the power grid and cover the gaps between the tiles with filling mixtures. When choosing a mixture, be sure to consider that they must be suitable for heated floors.

So, you still have a question after everything you read, which floor is best suited for ceramic tiles? The answer is not straightforward, but still if you use the warm floor all year round, and if you live in a private house and you have central heating from a stove( boiler), then you are best served by a water-heated floor.

If you use a warm floor mainly in the winter season, and also you live in a multi-storey house, then stop by an electric heat field, becauseit is best suited for tiling.