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Warm floors

I would like to do around the first floor of his suburban home warm floors. Do then on the first floor radiators?

Heated floors are divided into floors and warm on the hot floor. The temperature of warm floors does not exceed 36 degrees – they are an element of comfort, and heat transfer from them no more than 0.04 kilowatts per square meter. The temperature of hot sex does not exceed 45 degrees, they are made mostly in the hallways, so there does not accumulate dirt and wet shoes quickly dried up. Heat from them does not exceed 0.1 kWh per square meter. Making sex even higher temperature is impractical because then they will be too hot to walk on them will be uncomfortable. (For reference – people can not withstand the burning temperature of not more than 64 degrees).
That is, the total power of warm floors in the room is not enough for quality of its heating. Elucidate this calculation.

Imagine a room area of 15 square
meters. At a rate of 10 square meters per 1 kilowatt of power for
its quality heating need 15/10 = 1,5 kW. With warm
same floor area of 15 square meters. m we can get 15 * 0,04 = 0,6 kW. AND
This provided the warm floors have an area equal to the square room.
And yet they can not spread under the furniture, wooden floors and parquet
as tree will crack – ie useful heat transfer area
in a country house will be even smaller. That is, instead of the required 1,5
KW 0,6 kW, we obtain that almost half the power required
for quality heating the room.

Warm floors are an element of comfort and can be considered only as a supplement to the main heating system.

Warm floors. Types and application.

The popularity of these PEX radiant heating systems is constantly growing. For example, in Sweden 90% of newly built houses equipped with a PEX radiant heating system with floor PEX radiant heating, in Finland – 70%, Canada – 92%.

Warm floors with PEX Tubing

There are two main types of underfloor PEX radiant heating: water and electric. Air floors, because of their exotic and expensive, will not be discussed. And water and electric underfloor PEX radiant heating with one thing in common – a tankless water heater (the temperature of the floor surface rarely exceeds 30-32 ° C), very large area. Usually the whole floor area radiant heat.

Some like it warm

Even more difficult the formation of convective currents that cooking zone extends almost the entire floor. The heat is rising from the lowest point of the room – the floor. Surface temperatures can fluctuate from 24 ° C to 32 ° C. The air temperature near the floor 20-27 ° C, and at the level of the head, it is 17-24 ° C. Here is shown such a wide temperature range because of underfloor equip accurate thermostats, allowing easy set the desired temperature, which is then maintained for a long time. It turns out that the most pleasant temperature will be just where we reside. Hence the heightened sense of comfort, but also lower fuel consumption or electricity. We do not want to spend extra money on PEX radiant heating do not know why!
There are two ways

So, we found that in every room in the floor laid the heater, which provides the necessary amount of heat. Heat flux, and therefore comfort, can be controlled by thermostat. In the case of water we have equality in doses of supplied hot water, and in the case of electric floor – the amount of electricity. Due to this and maintained the required temperature of the floor.

Warm floors can operate in two modes: simple comfort (or warm) or a full floor PEX radiant heating. However, this classification is usually applied to electric sex. These systems differ only in the fact that in the first case, the power per square meter of floor surface is lower than in the second case, and the only PEX radiant heating homes simply not enough. Typically, power for comfortable floor of 90-150 W/m2. Its value depends on many parameters, which fully take into account is often impossible. For example, if the premises being renovated and it arranged warm floors, then we have two options.


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