Warm floor from central heating

In this article, we will tell you about how to make a warm floor from central heating and when it's not allowed.
You can read about the advantages of floor heating in front of radiators here.

The shortcomings of the electric floor heating systems

Is it possible in principle to do floor heating in an apartment?

Yes, this is an opportunity. The main thing is that this decision does not worsen the lives of your neighbors.

What is the difference between a battery or a warm floor if there is a total riser? Can you ask.

The problem is that the general heating system of an apartment building is calculated on the basis of the capacity of the heating devices in each apartment. And the heat consumption for each apartment is calculated per unit of time. And if you use for heating the room its whole area and heat from the general system, you can take a lot more. And in this case, your neighbors from the top or bottom can get cold batteries. This is especially true for those buildings in which both the batteries are not very hot.

And the next series of this series will be the challenge plumbers who will seek the cause of this situation throughout the house. They begin to search from their closest neighbors. Therefore, your first task will be to calculate the heating system that will not break the existing heat balance.

Do not dig into another pit ...

Let's find out what decisions should be taken on arms and what are not.

Determine the type of wiring in the apartment.

This may be a system with several risers or one central one. With installed an apartment meter of heat and without it. And often in new apartments install individual heating.

Apartment with several risers.

The variant is the simplest and the wrong.

Unregulated heat from the radiator (can not be used)

In this case, we significantly increase the heat recovery from the riser and destabilize the heating system. The second disadvantage is that if the apartment is located at the beginning of the heating branch and the radiator is always hot. We can get a branch of a warm floor with a temperature above 45 degrees. In such conditions, it will be difficult to walk safely.

Warm floor with radiator with regulation (can not be used

In this option, we can lower the floor temperature to a comfortable one with a three-way valve and a thermal head but other problems remain unresolved.

Warm floor with split heat exchanger (applied)

In this solution, we eliminate all the negative effects of the warm floor on the common building system.

The heat exchanger can be mounted instead of a heating battery.

The heat exchanger is selected equivalent to the design heat capacity of the radiator.
The hydraulic supports of the pipelines are not violated.
The two contours are completely independent and you can precisely control the temperature.
The loop of the warm floor does not hydraulically connect to the general system and the crash (for example, damage to the punch), you do not need to turn off the entire riser.
There is no risk of flooding neighbors.
Apartment with a central riser or a heat meter.

In this option, we also recommend using a connection through a heat exchanger, this is a security issue of the system. The heat exchanger will be one and its power is selected based on the calculation of heat consumption of the apartment. Also in our system there will be a distribution comb

Water-heated floor with an electric boiler or boiler.

If the apartment is individual heating, then the warm floor is installed as in the house.

An example of this installation of warm floor you can see in the video HERE.

In case you need to do floor heating only in the bathroom you can use as a heat source boiler.

The boiler will require a circulation pump and a 3-way valve control.

If you wanted to install a warm floor in your apartment then contact us and we will understand how to do it reliably and efficiently.

Video example of installing a water warm floor from a riser in the apartment see -> here

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