Warm floor with their hands + instructions for installation and laying of tiles

Warm floors are gaining popularity with each passing year, it is absolutely justified.In this article we will look at the main varieties of underfloor heating, as well as consider the installation of each type, in addition, we consider in detail the process of installing tiles on floor heating.

Radiant floor with their hands

This heating system is circulating through the pipes heated water or antifreeze.Tubes (metal and plastic, copper, metal, etc.) laying in mortar and connect to either the boiler or the central heating.This system can be used in private homes, as in apartments like the heating system connected problematic.More information about Radiant Floor read here.

How to install radiant floor heating

1. first stage - preparation and leveling the surface.Rough floor is cleaned of debris and remove all distortions, in order to avoid further non-uniform heating of the floor.
2. Next plank plastic wrap, securing the edges with tape.
3. To reduce heat loss, laid a layer of insulation material (cork, mineral wool, etc.) and the reinforcing mesh.
4. make installation.To do this, divide the entire room into sections (area less than 40 square meters and an aspect ratio of no more than 1 to 2) .Ukladyvaem expansion joints made of polyethylene foam and tape damper between the boundaries of plots and along the walls (joints up to 20 cm).Then fasten the pipe to the reinforcing grid, and set the collector cabinet.
   

   Installing underfloor heating

5. pipes must be filled with concrete screed.The thickness of screed without reinforcement mesh - 5 cm, with that - 3 cm Mix cement, sand, polypropylene fibers and the aqueous plasticizer solution..
   

   Fill pipe concrete screed - photo

6. Fill the mortar between the established "beacons" in the process of pouring cement necessarily piercing the wire in order to avoid the appearance of bubbles.After pouring the screed, moisten it with water for three days, after three days again abundantly moisturizes screed, cover e film and leave for two weeks.When the screed has dried, it is possible to produce ceramic tiles.

Installation of warm electric sex

Video - installation of floor heating on the basis of heating mats

Electric floor heating is available in three forms: in the form of a polymer film (infrared), ina mat or a cable.

Infrared warm floors are produced in the form of thin films square with a side of 50 cm and 3.3 mm thick.Transparencies electrical heating elements are mounted.Stacking produce directly in the tile adhesive.

Underfloor heating in the form of mats are reinforcing mesh on which the cable is attached, is heated by an electric current.

Before you make laying of floor heating, it should be noted on the chart areas, where there is furniture.There heating elements would be inappropriate.Choosing a location for the temperature sensor and thermostat.

punchers in the wall and on the floor cut through the channels for cable management.Separately cut through the recess for the temperature controller (if it is embedded).

floor surface is required to align.For this example, it is possible to use a mixture of self-leveling leveling flooring.

Cables temperature sensor and thermostat before inserting it into the channels you want to skip through the corrugated tube.

then laid on the floor heating mats.When laying allowed to cut the net, but the cable - in any case.You can glue the mesh to the floor or to fix it any fasteners, without affecting the heating cable.

We connect wires and check the availability of the system.

After checking can be applied to the mesh and cable tile adhesive and lay the tile.Run a warm floor in the work allowed no earlier than three weeks after laying tiles.

Infrared Film floor is not recommended to lay a ceramic tile.A cable-type warm floor can even be installed under a cement screed.

choice of adhesive for laying tiles on the floor heating

usual adhesive for ceramic tiles after several heating may peel off.For laying tiles on floor heating is necessary to glue, able to withstand a large number of temperature changes during heating and cooling of the floor heating elements.Instead, the adhesive mixture is suitable based on the aluminate cement or epoxy resin.

first method of laying tile on the floor heating

Video - laying ceramic tile on the floor heating

Divorced glue 8-10 mm thickness solution is applied on top of the laid floor heating (or ties,if any, was poured over the heating pipes) in small portions.Then, using a notched trowel is necessary to align the solution and place the ceramic tile, a little pushing it.

Knead a large amount of glue is not recommended once the tiles are laid after a maximum of 10 minutes after it was treated with glue.An adjustment may be no more than 20 minutes after the tile is laid.

Overwrite seams can be one day after work, but to operate floor heating is recommended not earlier than 1 month.

second way

underpour heating cables self-leveling floors.We produce self-leveling floor primer base and then laid ceramic tiles.

sure to withstand the temperature conditions from +5 to +25 degrees, and beware of the appearance of drafts in the room.

Laying tiles on floor heating - instruction + Video

Ceramic tile has a number of admirable qualities, such as: environmentally friendly, fire resistance and long life.There are types of tiles with non-slip surface and increased impact resistance best suited for the floor.Flooring ceramic tile quite nicely, and in combination with underfloor heating tiles becomes even more advantages, because it is made of a material that is able to endure many changes in temperature, store heat and save it.And thanks to the properties of ceramic tiles quickly heat up in the kitchen, bathroom or any other room with underfloor heating is turned on instantly becomes warm.

Under the tile matches any of the varieties of floor heating: electric or water (infrared, cable or film types).And each of these has its own nuances of installation.