Heat-insulated floors already stopped being such wonder and are widely applied to heating of both private houses, and apartments. The truth in the last it is not always real to establish water floors therefore more often owners of the housing stop on electric heat-insulated floors and as to choose them, it will be told in this article.
What happen?
The used type of a heating element subdivides such system into two types: resistive and infrared. They have still subtypes. In particular, resistive can be made on the basis of the heating cable and a heating mat, and the infrared floors transforming energy of electric current to infrared radiation are presented by film heaters and core mats.
Resistive floors
Being interested what heat-insulated floors it is better to choose, it is worth understanding their features and the principle of action. In the cable system of a wire can be single-core, strong and semiconductor, independently regulating the heating. Single-core wires are delivered a certain length and power of heating. It is not always convenient, but it is the most inexpensive and simple option on the device. The strong cable much more convenient in installation as provides more freedom in placement of rounds and does not demand connection to the thermostat of the second end. Doubting what electric heat-insulated floor to choose, it is necessary to remember, as in that and other case it is necessary to fill in a floor with a concrete coupler which will accumulate heat.
It is possible to lay, of course, a cable heat-insulated floor under a wooden flooring, but it will significantly reduce efficiency of heating. A convenient and economic strong self-regulating cable in operation rather expensive, but it is capable to make even without third-party intervention temperature on all area of the room, it is enough to set its maximum value on a temperature regulator. Without knowing what should choose a heat-insulated floor under a tile, it is possible to stop safely on one of three offered options.
Mats have an appearance of the same resistive strong cable which figurno is laid out on the fiber glass mesh basis with a certain step. Mats it is easy to stack and give them the most intricate form. Their power is not too high and seldom reaches 200 W/m², but they do not demand performance of a thick coupler – to put enough thin leveling layer.
Infrared floors
Asking a question how to choose a heat-insulated electric floor under a tile, it is necessary to understand features of film heaters and core mats. The first have an appearance of a roll no more than 0.4 mm thick which main advantage consists in selection of the most optimum level of heating. They do not need a coupler as they keep within only by a dry method. Being interested what floor covering can be chosen for such heat-insulated floor, it is worth looking narrowly at laminate, a parquet or linoleum. It is possible to establish them and under a tile, but it demands application of special methods of laying and a waterproofing of material.
Core infrared mats have an appearance of two parallel conductors fixed in reliable polymeric isolation with the emitters cores placed between them. Such mats are capable to self-control: as soon as the chosen heating level is reached, cores will be locked and will stop process of radiation of thermal energy. Such system of heating is universal and can be established under any floor covering. Existence of a thin coupler 30 mm thick as without it cores will not be able to self-regulate is obligatory.