Warm floor film with your own hands: laying

To date, a warm film flooris perhaps the most popular kind of insulation of rooms. The warm floor helps to create a very pleasant and comfortable temperature in the room, the most suitable for a person. And in this case infrared rays go directly from the floor surface, which makes it irreplaceable for heating children's rooms and bedrooms. In addition, the use of a warm floor as the only heating system, allows you to permanently get rid of bulky radiators and harmful oil heaters. It is important to note that the installation of such a thermal insulation system is nothing particularly complicated. Therefore, many people prefer to lay a warm film floor with their own hands, without resorting to the help of specialists. The scheme of the device of a warm film floor. To lay a warm film floor with your own hands, you need to know a few basic rules for doing this work. As already mentioned above, underfloor heating is the most convenient, safe and healthy way of heating the room. Its main advantages include the following qualities:

Advantages of a film warm floor

Composition of thermo film.

Ease and simplicity of laying and lack ofany complex service. Installation of this heating system does not require any special knowledge and skills from you or a set of complex and rare tools. Therefore, any person who does not even have vast experience in this matter can do it. In addition, when preparing the floor for the installation of the underfloor heating film, you do not have to pour in a new concrete screed. It will be enough just to eliminate irregularities on the old one, and then carefully remove all dirt and dust from it.

Gentle heating mode allows you to mount a film warm floor for all types of flooring, without exception, whether it is laminate, linoleum or tile.

All segments of a given heating systemare interchangeable. Therefore, if damage is detected on any part of the film, it can easily be repaired without touching other parts of the system.

Extremely small thickness of the warm floor, no more than 0.5 mm.

Infrared thermal radiation makes warmThe film floor is the closest in nature to natural heat sources, such as the sun. Therefore, this heating system is absolutely safe for human health.

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Materials and Tools

To install a warm floor with your own hands, you will need the following materials and tools: Advantages of a film warm floor: a comparison scheme with the operation of central heating.

• screwdriver;
• sharp knife;
• pliers;
• side cutters;
• insulation tape;
• distribution box;
• thermoregulator;
• electric wires;
• the required amount of heating element;
• the required footage of the thermal insulating substrate.

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Surface preparation for a film floor

Before laying the film it is very important to properly prepare the floor surface, for which it is necessary to perform the following simple actions: Scheme of installation of a warm film floor.

Before you begin work on layingfilms, make sure that the floor in the room where you plan to equip this heating has a fairly flat surface. A slight discrepancy in the height of not more than 2 mm is allowed. If the differences in the floor are more important, then in this case they must be disposed of using a grinding machine (for a concrete floor) or a cake (for wooden surfaces).

Before installing a warm floor thoroughly clean the surface of various contaminants;

Next, spread a heat-insulating substrate on the floor with a metallized surface upward. Do this in such a way that it is absolutely smooth without wrinkles or other irregularities.

Strips of heat-insulating material should be laid joint in the joint, and then fasten them to each other with thick tape.

Now that the base is completely ready, you canstart the installation of the floor with your own hands. If according to your plans this heating system becomes the only source of heat in this room, then the film coating should cover at least 70% of the total area of ​​the room. If the room has other sources of heating, then in this case there will be enough and 40-50%. In this case, it is important to remember that the film can not be laid not close to the wall. Between the edge of the film and the wall surface should be at least 10 cm. Back to the table of contents</a>

Laying a warm floor

Before you start working with a warm film floor, carefully read the instructions, because different heating systems sometimes require different ways of connection. Scheme of heating system installation: 1 - end fittings, 2 - film strips, 3 - temperature sensor, 4 - protective box, 5 - wiring, 6 - service box, 7 - temperature controller.

So you do not have to bother with a large numberconnections and use an excessive number of wires, the film coating should be cut so that you get a small number of bands, namely along the room.

When laying a film, try to avoid anyfolds, creases or overlaps, and make sure that the copper busbars are always facing down. And to ensure that the strips are always in their place and do not move toward each other, they should be well fixed with a wide tape.

Now connect all the contacts to the copper busbars. To each band of film coating should be connected to 2 contact clamps, the number of copper busbars. Be sure to make sure that all the contacts are turned in one direction. They must be arranged so that they are facing the wall of the room near which you intend to place the thermostat and the junction box.

Now all the terminals of the clamps must be connected to the electrical wires, and then carefully insulated.

Next, put the junction box and connect the wiring to it.

After this, the electric wires that depart fromcontacts of the heating system, you need to bring it to the distribution box and connect it to it. In this situation, you should apply a parallel connection scheme. To avoid damaging the wires, it is necessary to cut out small grooves in the heat-insulating material, in which they will be reliably protected from external influences. This will also help you to hide the wires and prevent their bulging.

In conclusion, you only need to verify thatThe heating system is really reliably isolated. To do this, shift each cut from above and below with a special material that does not conduct electricity, and on top of it, put an insulation tape.

Now that the film cover is fully laid and connected, you will only have to connect the heating control system. Thermoregulators, general view: A - universal, B - programmable. The temperature sensor should be installed in a place where it would be completely safe, but in the immediate vicinity of the heating system. It is best to arrange it on the part of the room where in the future there will be a large piece of furniture, for example, a table, a cabinet or a bedside table. To the sensor was not too noticeable, you should cut out a shallow niche in the substrate and place it there. Distribution boxes and temperature controllers, as a rule, are installed at a height not lower than 15 cm from the floor level. It is important to remember that the film coating is very susceptible to various mechanical damages, so it is absolutely necessary to lay a layer of protective material over it. There are several types of materials that are used to protect a warm film floor. For example, if you decide to put in your room a solid floor covering, such as a laminate, then in this case it will be enough to cover the film heater with a conventional polyethylene film. If, however, as a finishing floor covering, you have chosen softer materials, for example, linoleum or carpet, then in this case you will need to provide the heating system more reliable protection. In such a situation, you can proceed as follows: cover the warm floor with a polyethylene film, and then lay over it sheets of plywood or slabs of wood-fiber material. At the time of installation, it is important to carefully ensure that it does not accidentally damage the warm film floor, since in this case the heating system will be damaged. A much more complicated process is laying a tile or ceramic tiles on a warm floor. In this case, as in the previous two, the work to protect the warm film coating begins with the laying of the polyethylene film. Then, on top of it, it is necessary to lay a reinforcing paint net made of a material that does not conduct an electric current. After that, you should carefully fix this grid on the floor surface, trying not to damage the heating elements located in the film, as well as copper buses and wiring connected to them. After this, you can start laying the tile, which is best done using a specially tile adhesive. If you have not made a mistake and done everything right, in this case the warm floor, mounted with your own hands, will please you and all your loved ones for many years.

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