Heating floors – alternative to classic heating

Everyone knows well that warm air is lighter than cold and rises up. It is for this reason that warm floors are able to warm up not only the floor of the room, but also all its space.

Recently, heating floors are increasingly used in those areas where the air temperature in winter drops to very low temperatures. But in the average temperature belt, warm floors become an alternative to ordinary heating. Having installed such floors, you can abandon standard heating with batteries and radiators, thereby increasing the space in the room.

But besides this, heated floors make it possible to adjust the temperature in the premises at the discretion of the residents. The temperature controller is usually installed in an easily accessible place on the wall, and at any time you can change the degree of heating of the floors depending on the temperature on the street.

Today there are two floors heating systems: water and electric. With water heating, the pipes system are built into the floors, through which hot water flows, thereby heating the air. But this system is considered not very well -being. It is not difficult to imagine what problems the owners will expect if one of the tubes begins to flow.

With electric heating of the floors, heating mats or infrared warm floors are used. The heating mats are laid more complicated. They are installed during repair and should be fixed either with special tile glue or thin concrete screed. The installation of such sexes is recommended to be entrusted to specialists.

Laying infrared warm floors is quite simple. They don’t need an additional screed. To lay such floors, it is only necessary to level the surface and prepare professional waterproofing mixtures. Install infrared floors, almost every. But to connect electricity, it is still better to invite specialists.

For floors with heating, you can use various floor coverings. The rooms mainly use carpet (soft carpet), parquet or laminate. In the kitchen linoleum or tiles. And in the bathroom, the tile is most often used. But whatever the floor covering, the heating system will give enough heat to warm up the room.

Heating floors are also an economical way of heating the room. Due to the possibility of adjusting the heating temperature, you can quickly respond to weather changes on the street.