DIY Film Warm Paul

How differently people relate to their dwellings! For some, the house is a fortress, for someone it is a palace, but still, most of the ragly owners prefer to see their house in a full bowl. However, before starting to fill the house with everything necessary, it is worth making it beautiful and functional, capable of not only delighting the eye, but also warm in bad weather. And for this we need to make repairs - one after which many small household problems inherent in standard apartments will disappear. Carefully view the articles on our website. Here you will find all the necessary information about the transformation of your living conditions into a comfortable nest, where you and your family will really be convenient to live. And specifically now, the conversation will go about how to make a warm floor.

1. Infrared warm floor - film
2. Warm floors device from the film
3. Installation of a film warm floor for various flooring
4. Film floor installation scheme

Infrared warm floor - film

It is known about the underground heating system for a long time, but right now we can establish in our own home the latest achievements of our civilization in insulation. Moreover, this includes time -tested water heating systems (water warm floor), and the newer - electric, and the latest development is a film warm floor. Each project has its own advantages, but the last option significantly exceeds any other warm floor model. As evidence, look at the most characteristic differences in the film sex and other varieties of a warm floor:

• the most important thing is the type of heating of the room, because, unlike the water and purely electrical systems, the warming does not occur due to the elevated temperature of the cable or pipes with water, but as a result of infrared radiation, which, in particular, to living bodies and half the spectrum of our sun and is the most Comfortable for the human body
• the thickness of the heating element (less than a millimeter) is not comparable even with the highest system of electromates
• due to the most sparing the type of warming, a warm floor of the film can be effectively used under absolutely any finish flooring
• the installation of a warm floor from the film with your own hands is much easier than in other systems, since the screed will not have to be made in any case
• superon panels from the film can be installed not only as a warm floor system, for example, attach the film to the carpet used only in winter, or to the wall next to the baby's bed, or even just under the bottom of the crib or any other furniture item that needs additional heating

As we know, all systems of the warm floor help to save our health, but still infrared heating is more useful, because such radiation is closest to natural and successfully applied in many areas of our lives, including medicine. And the rest of the position significantly increase the attractiveness of a film warm floor. Of course, his prices are not too pleased with us, but there is nothing particularly terrible in them, because quite many people can afford to buy the right warm floor from the film, and it is not necessary for this to be the richest person on the planet. It is possible that those who are going to install a warm floor with their own hands cause some questions to connect a warm floor, but we may well help you with this.

Warm floors device from the film

Let's first consider in more detail the structure of the film warm floor.

From the name itself, it is already clear that the main part of this system is a thin film made of polyester, in which in stripes, and in the most expensive version - continuous, carbon paste is sealed (it is also called carbon). It is this pasta under the influence of electric current that emits infrared rays. To bring the electric current in the film there are special copper-silver conductors, to which the wires are connected from the power source.

The connection system must include a thermostat for a warm floor, thanks to which you can adjust the degree of floor heating. It acts on the basis of indicators removed by temperature sensors connected from the wrong side of the film. By the way, if you put an automatic thermostat for a warm floor, which independently determines the optimal time for turning on-off the heating mode, you can achieve significant energy savings, and with our prices it will be by no means superfluous.

In addition, a couple of gaskets also includes a warm floor.

• the heat -refracting substrate under the warm floor, so that all heat gets to us, and does not warm the ceiling of the neighbors from below
• the liner between the film and the very floor itself, its choice depends on the type of finish flooring

Here is mostly the whole set, without taking into account small parts like contact clamps and tape for fixing gaskets.

Installation of a film warm floor for various flooring

As already mentioned, the infrared heating mode allows the use of a carbon film for any flooring. In principle, the main positions of the kit of the film warm floor remain unchanged in any case. However, it should be taken into account that for each version of the finish flooring, appropriate materials for the substrate for the finish line are used. This is understandable - the difference between soft (linoleum, carpet), hard wooden (laminate, parquet) and hard stone (ceramic and stone tiles) coatings requires a different approach to the formation of a really high -quality sex. And quality is at the forefront for us, hardly anyone wants to make a warm floor too often.

We move on to the specifics and consider which material is used for each of the indicated flooring options:

• before the flooring of a wooden floor, any variety on the heating film is placed a plastic film

• in the case of a soft flooring, it is necessary to take care of protecting the film warm floor from various damage, that is, you need to lay a solid liner on the film-it can be plywood, wood-bruise or oriented-stoves

• we will have to work with tiles - we put a plastic film on top of a warm floor, the painting grid (the mesh material should not conduct electric current) we fasten to the main floor with the dowels so as not to damage the stripes of carbon paste and copper conductor and lay the tile on a special glue for a warm floor

It would seem nothing complicated. The only thing is to mention that the warm floor laid under the tile, despite the somewhat greater difficulties in installation, will be more economical. The fact is that the tile material retains heat longer, therefore, less electricity will be spent on maintaining the optimal heating mode than for wooden coatings that will have to be heated more often.

Film floor installation scheme

The already presented information gives a sufficient idea of \u200b\u200bthe installation of a film warm floor. But still, it is worthwhile to tell in more detail about both the installation scheme and about important trifles. Let's start:

• prepare a place in advance for installing a thermostat - cut a hole for the distribution and stroke the channel for wiring
• the film warm floor can be laid on a black concrete screed and on the old coating, the main thing is that the base floor is even and clean
• as a substrate, we lay a reliable heat -reflective coating (using aluminum foil is extremely undesirable) reflecting side up
• if the finish flooring is planned quite heavy (most often we are talking about tiles), it is better to install a layer of heat -insulating material with a low shrinkage on a concrete base for the heat reflector, for example, a cork substrate
• fixation of any substrates is carried out by construction tape
• both the substrates and the film lay the joint in the joint or with a small distance between the stripes, the overlap cannot be applied
• when installing the main heating with a heating film, from 60 to 80% of the floor should be covered, if the warm floor is an additional heating system, then you can also take a smaller area under the film
• determining the heating area and its configuration, we try not to lay out the heating film under heavy massive furniture
• we cut sections of the film of the desired length along special lines so as not to break the carbon layer
• the heating film is located with a copper strip down to the reflector
• contacts should be directed to the wall on which the thermostat will be installed
• connect the contact clamps into the strips of the copper conductor, connect the mounting wire to them
• isolate the outputs of copper stripes
• we connect the heat regulator of the warm floor and temperature sensor
• we carry out a trial inclusion of a warm floor to determine the correctness of the connection
• install the gasket suitable for the finish flooring
• we make a final floor

The scheme is very simple, the minimum installation time takes about 2 hours. However, the time frame can be very extended when installing the floor for tiles or in the case when you do not have enough experience in carrying out repair work. Remember, one of the most important rules says: by installing a film warm floor, the instructions should always be at hand. Better yet, use the advice of a specialist, for example, to connect contacts and wires. The presence of an electrical professional becomes especially relevant when conducting a separate line for powering the warm floor from the camshaft.

Well, scared? Do not worry, the matter is really simple. Correctly lay the finish flooring and it will be more complicated. However, as they say, the gods do not burn pots, so we put up the sleeves and take to work. Good luck in creating homemade comfort with your own hands!