For most people, warm floor has long been an unrealizable dream. The bathroom was one of the coldest places in the house, especially in the winter, because almost all the surface of the walls and the floor in the bathroom are decorated with ceramic tiles, and this is a "cold" material. Of the elements of heating, only the heated towel was most often present, the heat from which was not enough to fully heat the room. And if the family has small children, then a warm floor is simply necessary. Yes, and which adults like immediately after a warm relaxing bath spank barefoot on a cold ceramic tile? Today, it is possible to make installation of a warm floor in a bathroom without special problems even on our own, without resorting to the services of specialists.
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Electric heated floor in the bathroom
This type of floor heating is probably the most popular because of the relative simplicity in the installation. The device of an electric warm floor is quite simple - a heating cable and a thermostat. On sale there are single and two-core cables. Double-stranded, naturally, costs an order of magnitude more, but it is more safe and durable. Before installing the cable, the room must be completely freed from excess furniture, carefully dismantling the old floor covering.
The surface should be smooth and clean, if necessary, you can level it with a cement screed. Prepare a place for the thermostat in advance. This device is designed to adjust the temperature of the warm floor and mounted on the wall. It may also be necessary to mount a separate wiring for floor connection.
At the end of the preparatory work, you can begin laying the insulation. For electric underfloor heating, it is recommended to use foam foam as a heat-insulating material. It is a thin and light material, covered with foil, having a self-adhesive base. After laying insulation all joints must be glued together with an adhesive tape. A special grid is laid on top of the insulation, after which the cable itself is mounted. It is fixed to the base with a mounting tape. To simplify the installation work, you can buy a cable that has already been glued to the tape, which is sold in rolls.
The cable must be laid on the base with a "snake" with intervals between turns of 20-25 centimeters. In order for your warm floor to work properly, you need to install a thermal sensor. Typically, the sensor is poured into the tube before pouring in order to remove it if necessary. After installing the cable and checking the warm floor for serviceability, you can close the cable with a screed.
Infrared floor heating in the bathroom
For the device of this type of a warm floor a special film with the deposited strips with a spraying from carbon pipes of microscopic sizes is used. The principle of its operation is the following: when the electric current is applied, the film generates infrared radiation, which heats all opaque objects in its path. The main advantage of this type of warm floor is that the heat is transferred without loss to the heating of air, and the entire floor surface is heated evenly.
Before beginning preparation and installation work, carefully calculate the laying area of the film. In this case, it must be taken into account that the film can not be placed in places where furniture or any other interior items will stand. The entire scheme of laying the film and placing the wiring should be marked out in advance. After carrying out all necessary calculations, prepare the surface for laying the warm floor - it must be clean and smooth.
Then the cleared surface needs to be covered with thermal insulation material. If the finishing material of the floor is ceramic tiles, then the sheets of the technical plug are used as the insulator. Next, we lay the film. The film strips can be cut between the heating strips or the markings applied by the manufacturer. The cut line is carefully insulated with an adhesive tape.
The strips of the film must be laid so that they do not overlap and do not intersect. Wiring designed for the infra-red floor in the bathroom, it is best to lay in separate stitches, but you can let the wires and on the wall. It is preferable to use a soft copper wire with a diameter of 2 to 4 mm. The wire must be fixed in the terminals-clamps, which are then fastened to the copper strips on the film. Important! We connect the film strips in parallel!
After this, you need to connect and isolate the temperature sensor and the temperature controller. It is not superfluous to install an emergency shutdown device in case of a short circuit. To check the warm floor, turn it on, setting the temperature no more than 30 degrees. The film should not overheat and spark anywhere. If everything is in order, then we put polyethylene film on top as a waterproofing, the edges are glued together with adhesive tape. Here, perhaps, and everything, you can start screed.
Warm floor in the bathroom
Warm water floors are a rather complex design made of metal plastic, plastic, copper or steel pipes with hot water. It should be noted that a warm water floor is preferable to install in a private house, since the apartment will have difficulties with connecting to a heating system. On the pipes with hot water the screed is laid, after which - the finish trim.
To advantages of the given system it is possible to attribute, first of all, relative cheapness, reliability, low cost in operation and safety for health. The main disadvantage of having warm water floors in the bathroom is a complicated installation of the structure. The installation process requires theoretical knowledge and practical skills.
The first thing to do is start the installation of water heating, replace the risers with hot water by plastic ones, or install the appropriate adapters. Next, the installation of waterproofing. For this, a polyethylene film is used, the edges of which are connected with a soldering iron or a construction hair dryer. A rough cement screed is added from above with the addition of expanded clay. The screed level should be 6-7 cm below the finish level. When the screed dries, and it is covered with heat-reflecting foil.
Joints are glued with mounting tape. After that, you can install a warm floor in the bathroom. The plastic pipe must be securely fixed on the base, and the pitch of the turn must not exceed 20 cm. The finished system is connected to the supply and return of hot water. After the work is finished, check the system for operation. After laying the second layer of screed, you can proceed to the finish coat.
We hope that the materials given in this article will help you make a choice in favor of some of the above systems of the warm floor, and will answer the question: how to make a warm floor in the bathroom?
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