There are a lot of technologies for heating the room. One of the popular and practical is the system of underfloor heating.
Country houses are increasingly began to build from wood. Undoubtedly, these are ecologically clean rooms, the tree creates a special microclimate that allows dispensing with air conditioning and additional air humidification. Since the walls are built of wood, the floors are made of the same material.
In a wooden floor, a warm floor for heating rooms will be an ideal option, and reducing energy consumption for heating a room will be an undoubted advantage over standard radiators. The advantage of underfloor heating is the provision of heating with uniform horizontal flows, while the air heated by the radiator rises vertically, and when it is already cooled, it drops to the floor, without warming up the entire room to a sufficient degree.
In practice, two types of underfloor heating are used: electric and water. The first is not very popular in the case of creating a heating system with a wood coating. Underfloor heating is often installed under the wooden floor with pipes inside which heated water circulates. Any coolant can become a heating source, and everyone knows about the environmental friendliness of this type of heating: they do not emit harmful substances, do not electrify the air, and can be combined with other types of heating systems.
Features of a design of a water heat-insulated floor
Before you start renovating the floor or laying it in a new house, you should seriously approach the issue of choosing the board itself or piece parquet. In a wooden floor, a warm floor heats wood up to 26 degrees, so it must be confirmed by a manufacturer’s certificate of the possibility of using it for this heating system. Ideally wooden warm water floors combine with laminate flooring. To create an optimal result during heat transfer, the thickness of the wood board is from 15 to 25 mm. This is important because wood has a low level of thermal conductivity.
There are two ways of laying pipes under the wood floor: “coil” and “snail”. In the first version of the distribution of the heating system, the ease of installation and design is noted. One of the drawbacks is that in a wooden floor, a warm floor unevenly heats up due to heat loss at the circuit inlet and outlet. Given this nuance, the design of the coolant is made in such a way that the temperature difference in different parts is no more than 5 degrees.
A more difficult option in miscalculations and the organization of the design of the water floor is the method of laying with a "snail". But in this case, the owner of the room is protected from such temperature extremes, and the thermal power is higher than when laying with a "snake".
Professionals note that the most popular way to install a warm floor in a wooden floor is by pouring concrete.
Since the most comfortable sensations cause heat in the legs and cooler air at the level of the head, a warm water floor will be an excellent option for heating the house.