Warm linoleum floor under your hands

Linoleum - a popular and practical flooring and make it comfortable to help them mounted under floor heating.EMBODIMENTS several underfloor: using an electrical cable, infrared, roll films, pipes and water heating.The best option to make a warm floor under the linoleum with his hands, a radiant floor heating on the basis of polystyrene with automatic temperature control.

Advantages of warm water under floor linoleum

• Excellent insulation foundations, all of the heat from the floor heating is directed into the room;
• Minimum thickness of concrete screed saves materials;
• System Cost - Floors are heated quickly;
• absence of electromagnetic radiation reduces the electrification of linoleum;
• Water floor safe for any room and creates an additional waterproof, so it can be used in the kitchen.

Materials

First of all, to carry out such floor must be able to connect to the high-temperature heating circuit.Also for floor installation needed:

• collector cabinet with pumping and distribution equipment;
• Electric actuators for temperature control;
• managing device;
• Damper tape of expanded polystyrene;
• Vapor;
• polystyrene panel coated;
• metal-pipe;
• thermostat;
• Concrete with plasticizer;
• tool for installation of metal-pipe: pipe cutter, pressing tongs, spring jig calibrator.

Mount Technology

Mounting of underfloor heating for laying linoleum involves several steps, and, thanks to modern materials, it can be done independently.

• Installation begins with the control system assembly and distribution of coolant.Install the collector in the room closet.
• Mount pumping and mixing unit.It plays an important role in the system of underfloor heating - creates a separate circuit with adjustable water temperature.
• Gather manifold block.He is responsible for supplying coolant to the various contours of the floor and made up of two reservoirs - flow and return.The unit also includes flowmeters and check valves.
• equipment after assembly is placed in a predetermined cabinet and connected to the high-temperature circuit.

• Preparing subfloors - an important stage.Before starting work, it is necessary to align the floor and remove all irregularities, cracks, clean it of debris.Check the level of its lack of bias, if necessary - to align.
• along the walls to compensate for the thermal distortion and additional insulation is placed on the perimeter of the floor damping strip of foamed polystyrene.The tape is placed so that after pouring concrete strip appeared on its surface.
• On the floor is laid insulation film, leaving the walls of the stock of about 10 cm.
• film placed on top of slabs of polystyrene coated and bosses.They not only provide heat insulation, but also form the basis for pipes.Plates are placed overlapping, connecting with a special groove.

• on plates spread metal-pipe.Form layout pipes and the distance between them is chosen based on the results of calculation.The tube in each circuit as possible put a single loop.
• laying pipe between the special lugs on polystyrene plates - they lock the pipes.
• Step styling is typically 150 or 300 mm and is stipulated in the draft calculation of floor heating.Laying instructions also point in the project, usually for residential buildings is "snail" or "snake".At the same time laying the pipes installed floor temperature sensor supplied with the thermostat.His stack together in a corrugated tube with a stopper and equidistant from the parallel loop extending pipes.The tube is placed between the bosses and the lead wires to the thermostat.
• in place pipe bending radius for smooth and lack of breaks you need to use a spring conductor.

• After mounting the contours of the pipe is connected to the collector.Using a pipe cutter cut them chamfer using the calibrator and install the desired diameter of the compression fittings.
• connection pipes to the collector, tighten the nut with a wrench.
• Install servos for controlling the supply water temperature.
• on wall in a convenient location set the thermostat.

Also, be sure to read about the connection of the thermostat to warm the floor, and read about the water without floor covering, as well as about the warm floor under the laminate by hand.