When choosing a warm floor, the owner of the apartment or at home should ask yourself several important questions and get answers to them:
What are the features and nature of the room in which it is supposed to establish the coating? How high the electricity consumption of each flooring? The floor will be used as the main or additional source of heating?
Under which coating the warm floor is chosen and how much they combine? And these are only a small part of the issues that need to be resolved before making a choice in favor of a particular sex.
The main types of warm floor are electric, water and film. We highlight the advantages and disadvantages of each of them, and also find out whether the installation of a warm floor is possible with your own hands or is it better to hire professionals.
Electric warm floors
Electric warm floors have proven themselves in suburban houses, city apartments and small rooms in the area in which central heating is provided.
Advantages of the electric system
Due to its lower inertia, the electric system allows you to heat up faster and no other warm floor scheme can be compared with it in this indicator. If the system fails, there is no need to open the coating in order to repair it. Cable damage can be determined through a concrete screed with a special device, and then, using couplings, it will be possible to get several bricks and restore the damaged area.
Convenient placement of heating elements allows you to evenly distribute heat over the entire surface, and a convenient control system makes it possible to install a separate temperature for each room.
Electric floor is safe for health. Faster heating than the system of water and film analogue. Electric systems are more reliable and last longer.
Disadvantages of electrical types
Electric devices are sources of the electromagnetic field, but at the same time, most manufacturers indicate that the voltage indicators do not exceed background. High electric energy consumption. Before installing such a floor, make sure that its use will withstand your wiring and family budget.
Water warm floors
Now let’s talk about waterproof water and why they are often preferred by other heating systems. Their main advantage is the uniform distribution of heat across the entire area of the room in which the heating system is laid. It can be, both an additional and the main way of heating, which will save the owner of the apartment or at home from installing other heating devices. Another undoubted advantage of water systems is the low rate of electricity consumption.
If we talk about the disadvantages of water heating devices, then one cannot fail to mention possible leaks of the coolant, which leads to the need for repair, as well as problems when regulating the heating temperature.
Film warm floors
When choosing a film floor, you can be sure that you will definitely need to see how to mount a warm floor with your own hands on the video, since it has the largest number of nuances and should not be taken for its installation until you completely deal with them. The main thing is to follow the instructions and attract masters to cooperation, if necessary.
Their advantage is high efficiency and lower level of electrical consumption. The secret of this lies in the component of the device of the carbonate device, which has high thermal conductivity and quickly heats up. The film infrared floor is excellently mounted under a variety of coatings, and especially under linoleum, laminate, vinyl and carpet. By installing it under the laminate, it can be made mobile, using it in the cold season, and during the summer period simply dismantled. And this is another important advantage of infrared sources of heating.
The disadvantage of the system is a large number of contacts, which cannot be found in the cable type. Therefore, before using the infrared floor, you should test his work and carefully monitor the work of the masters, if you still refused to install a warm floor with your own hands.
It is optimal to install water warm floor under carpet and laminate, which are universal floor materials and have excellent thermal conductivity, and for the electric quartz vinyl coating, linoleum and laminate are suitable. Think about an independent installation? This is real! The main thing is to clearly follow the instructions and, if necessary, apply for advice to professionals.