Once the system is installed, your floors will become a heat emitter, and the entire room will then be heated from the floor.
Radiant heaters, the normal heating system have emitters mounted to walls in the room. The heat is distributed from ceiling into the room.
Both water and electric based floor heaters are available to the public. These two systems are very identical except that the one uses circulated water and the other using heating cables. The water-based floor heater uses water that is heated to a lower temperature compared to many of the conventional central heating (typically 50 degrees Celsius). This makes it ideal for high efficiency boilers.
The low operating temperature makes it suitable for solar powered water heaters and heat pumps. The water temperature is controlled when the water is mixed with hot water in the pipe from a boiler, and this is what achieves the required temperature. Whatever floor heating systems are used, you will find the source under your feet. The area that is heated is separated into zone and most of the time one zone is one room. This makes it possible to heat each zone independently.
If you are installing the floor heater in a new home, the pipes and cabling will normally be embedded in the screed.
If the system is going to be installed in existing buildings, the system is usually laid down on the existing floor and then covered with tiles, laminate or timber. As you have noticed, the shirting boards and the doors with then have to-be raised to accommodate.
Floor heating is cheaper than traditional heating. This is one of the benefits; however, one can justify this claim if you are going to be running the system for 24 hours. If you are not going using the mounted emitters on the walls, you will not be restricted when it comes to placing your furniture wherever.
Wet areas will also dry quicker when using this system.
One of the drawbacks when it comes to floor heating is that the response time is slow. A wooden floor will take around 30 minutes, sometimes an hour to warm up and you can expect to wait many hours for concrete to warm up. Cooling time is also slow. This can and cannot be considered a drawback if the property is continuously occupied.
There you have it: floor heating systems have their advantages and also their disadvantages, but if you are prepared to look passed these, there is nothing stopping you.
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