There are a lot of space heating technologies. One of the most popular and practical is the underfloor heating system.
Country houses are increasingly being built from wood. Undoubtedly, these are environmentally friendly premises, the tree creates a special microclimate that allows you to do without air conditioning and additional air humidification. Since the walls are made of wood, the floors are made of the same material.
In a wooden floor, underfloor heating for room heating will be an ideal option, and reducing energy costs for heating a room will be an undeniable 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, already cooled, falls to the floor, without warming up the entire room sufficiently.
In practice, two types of underfloor heating are used: electric and water. The first is not particularly popular in the case of creating a wood-covered heating system. A warm floor under a wooden mount is more often from pipes, inside which it circulateswarm water. Any heat carrier can become a source of heating, 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 the design of a water heated floor
Before you start reconstructing the floor or laying it in a new house, you should seriously consider the issue of selecting the board itself or piece parquet. In a wooden floor, a warm floor warms the wood up to 26 degrees, so it must be confirmed by a manufacturer's certificate about the possibility of using it for this heating system. Ideal wooden warm water floors are combined with a laminate coating. To create an optimal result in heat exchange, the thickness of the wood board is from 15 to 25 mm. This is important as wood has a low level of thermal conductivity.
There are two ways of laying pipes under a wood floor: "serpentine" and "snail". In the first version of the distribution of the heating system, ease of installation and design is noted. One of the disadvantages is that in a wooden floor, the warm floor warms up unevenly due to heat loss when the circuit enters and exits. 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 the miscalculations and organization of the water floor structure is the “snail” laying method. But in this case, the owner of the premises is protected from suchtemperature fluctuations, and the heat output is higher than when laying the "snake".
Professionals note that the most popular way to install a warm floor in a wooden floor is to pour concrete.
Because the most comfortable sensations are warm at the feet and cooler air at head height, underfloor heating is a great way to heat your home.
