Winter is coming to an end, and the question of choosing a heating system is still relevant for FORUMHOUSE users. In spite of wide choose devices, there is one system, the interest in which is constantly growing. Its name is "warm plinth".

System features

A thermal skirting board is a heating device installed instead of a conventional skirting board.

As a matter of fact, a micro-convector, a warm skirting board can act both as the main heating system and as an additional one.

Due to its small size - the height of the industrially manufactured warm skirting board is 15-20 cm, and the width is 3 cm, the thermal skirting board fits well into any interior.

chicken-A:

- The skirting board is similar to a standard skirting board mounted at the bottom of the wall. The thermal skirting board is made of metal and, more often than not, is heated by a liquid heat carrier coming from the boiler (this type is called "warm water skirting board", there is also a "warm electric skirting board").

Read in the diary of a member of our portal, what is the peculiarity of the second variety, and whether it is worth even thinking about what to do or to someone who cares about the composition of the air in his house.

Unlike conventional window-sill radiators, heating with warm skirting boards is not due to convection flows that first heat the air, but due to radiant energy that has a beneficial effect on humans.

It is often cited that the radial component of heat transfer at the thermo-skirting board is 80%, and the convection component is 20%.

Let's take a room with an area of ​​16 sq. M. Indoors, along three walls 4 meters long, thermal skirting boards are installed. The height of the panel is 14 cm. Thus, the total area of ​​the emitting surface of the skirting board will be 1.68 sq. M.

With a panel width of 3 cm, the ascending convection heat flux, under the action of the Coanda effect, seems to be "pressed" against the wall. Therefore, it does not mix with the rest of the air in the room, but heats the overlying inner surface walls.

Thus, the walls under which a warm plinth is installed, at a height of up to 1.5 meters, are heated several degrees above room temperature, which creates a feeling of thermal comfort for people in the room.

° C ° C .

As a result of the experiment, it was found that for a person's comfortable state, the air temperature in the room should be about 16° C , provided that the temperature of the walls is about 22° C .

The system is simple in design and operation. The supply of water or other coolant to the registers of the warm plinth is carried out through a conventional collector using circulation pump from any heating boiler.

Let's list the main advantages of heating with a thermal skirting board:

• uniform heating of the entire room without the formation of "cold corners";

• creation of a thermal curtain near the window, which is especially important in winter with a large glazing area;

• a comfortable thermal regime saves energy resources, because due to the predominance of the radial component, it is not required to heat up the air strongly, as with convection heating;

• the absence of protruding units and parts allows the system to fit into almost any interior.

Warm skirting board: buy or make

You can easily buy a warm water baseboard, both in Moscow and in any region. But the main and, perhaps, the most significant drawback that a warm water baseboard has is - the price for it is too high. And the electric price for a warm skirting board is also not particularly humane. In this article, we consider the water option:

On average, the price of a running meter of a warm plinth panel with all the necessary fasteners is above 2500 rubles.

If you add to this price the necessary components that you have to buy - an eyeliner, a manifold, mixing unit and other elements, the cost of the thermal skirting board doubles.

That's why chicken-A I decided to make a thermo skirting board myself.

The necessary requirements for this are the low cost and convenience of making baseboard heating at home.

chicken-A:

- Having undertaken a brainstorming session, I decided to abandon the finning and make a panel from a copper plate by soldering a tube to it.

Homemade panel specifications:

• panel height - 140 mm;
• inner tube diameter - 10 mm;
• outside diameter tubes - 12 mm.

The tubes were made of unannealed copper in 6 m long sticks.

Of particular interest is the user's approach to the manufacture of warm skirting boards. For this chicken-A I cut a strip of ordinary roofing copper into 4 strips with a grinder.

Tubes to the panel are soldered with soft plumbing solder containing 3% copper using gas burner and flux. In order to avoid warping of the metal at the soldering point, the main flame of the burner must be directed to the tube.

For connecting pipes and panels in a line chicken-A used sections of a pressure oil and petrol resistant hose. And the rubber pipes put on the ends of the copper pipes were secured with screw clamps.

chicken-A:

- At the time of manufacture, this system (including the manifold and piping) cost me less than 500 rubles. in terms of 1 meter of the panel. Now, in January 2015, this amount, due to inflation, is approximately 800-900 rubles.

Installation of a warm skirting board

To prevent excessive heat loss in the places where the panels are attached to the wall, the forum member attached a strip of isolon with a reflective aluminized layer. On top of it, he screwed plumbing plastic clips to the wall.

This will allow, in case of need for repair, easy removal of the panels.

A separate circuit is drawn from the collector for each heated room. Its total length, together with the liner, should not exceed 15-16 meters. The temperature of the heating medium is regulated by means of a thermostatic mixture from the boiler circuit through a three-way valve with a servomotor.

Propylene glycol is used as a heat carrier. Thermostatic valves with thermostatic heads are installed at the entrance to each room.

chicken-A:

- Approximately 55 liters of coolant was used to fill the system. It took 10 liters to fill the room circuits (total heated area 100 sq. M) and the collector. 35 liters were spent on the TT boiler, electric boiler and mains.

To improve the heat dissipation of the panels, chicken-A I wanted to paint them first, but abandoned this idea, deciding that the natural copper color looks great in the interior of the rooms.

Summing up

Homemade thermal skirting boards have been successfully working as the main heating system for a forum member's house for 7 years. For all the time, the system did not lose power and did not require any repairs.

chicken-A:

- My house is well insulated. Depending on the weather, the coolant temperature is set in the range from 50 ° C to 70 ° C. Only in the coldest winter did I raise the temperature of the coolant to 80 ° C.

Feels like chicken-A, the thermal effect from working skirting boards is very soft and pleasant. The air does not dry out. And thanks to the radiant energy, the air temperature in the house can be kept at the level of 20-21 ° C.

Also, as an improvement to the chicken-A system, he proposes to increase the height of the panel from 14 to 19 cm. In his opinion, this fully compensates for the absence of the tube ribbing, which is difficult to make on his own.

Read on FORUMHOUSE on how to make and implement your own installation, learn all about and familiarize yourself with the basic principles.

Watch in our video how to heat a large house in the absence of gas, how to build an air heating system based on a heat pump.

Do-it-yourself warm water baseboard - is it real? How difficult is it to make such a heating system yourself? What does it take to assemble and install a warm water skirting board yourself?

Heating with a warm skirting board - relatively new technology which is gaining popularity. It allows you to efficiently and evenly heat the room, does not require special costs for installation, does not violate the aesthetic appearance of the interior. A big plus of such a heating system is that if you have some skills and a minimum of tools, you can make a warm water baseboard with your own hands.

What is a warm skirting board

Not everyone is familiar with this technology. Heating skirting boards have started to appear on the market quite recently, but there is already a positive trend. The system is quite simple, but at the same time convenient and capable of providing a warm environment not only in residential premises, but also in offices, on the balcony, and attic. The main distinctive features warm water skirting boards are in atypical shapes. The design consists of several elements:

1. Rear panel, which is fixed to the wall and is used to create thermal protection;
2. Face plate (there are options with and without holes);
3. Plugs located on the sides;
4. A heater used to heat the heat carrier (boiler, heat pump, central system heating);
5. A heat exchange module consisting of two tubes - it is through them that water circulates.

Read also:

How to properly lay a warm floor under the tiles

The design of a warm skirting board is not complex. Installation can be carried out in any type of room. It is not at all necessary that the skirting board be around the entire perimeter. Sometimes he can be seen under the window, near the door. The most important thing is that in any place the structure will perfectly cope with its direct function.

Water is most often used as a coolant in a warm plinth, but sometimes antifreeze, propylene glycol or ethylene glycol solutions are pumped into them. This option makes sense if the heating is set up in a private house that does not need to be heated constantly, for example, in the country.

A warm water baseboard has a number of positive qualities:

• Compactness (unlike the vast majority of other devices);
• Heating is carried out evenly over the entire area of ​​the room;
• Ease of installation;
• The air does not dry out;
• High efficiency.

Thanks to this technology, everything is heated - floor, walls, ceiling. Accordingly, the likelihood of the appearance of fungus and mold is excluded. The skirting board is in perfect harmony with any floor covering.

Finally, there is a wide range of products on the market, in particular in terms of colors, sizes and shapes. You can purchase a design of the shade that will look best in a particular room.

Making a warm water baseboard

There are many options for finished products on the market, but some prefer to do everything on their own. This approach is not always rational, since you will have to buy specific materials and consumables.

The aluminum profile for wall mounting and the outer trim is easy to find, as are the mounts for the radiator. But with the latter, problems may arise. Copper radiators for warm skirting boards are often sold as spare parts and their price does not allow saving. In this case, a homemade warm skirting board will not be much cheaper than a factory one.

Read also:

Warm electric floors: pros and cons, types and features

Instead of a radiator, you can use an ordinary copper pipe, then you will either have to supply a coolant with a high temperature, or slow down its circulation so that it has time to give the right amount heat.

For thermal insulation of the wall behind the radiator, it is advisable to use a thermal protection with a metallized coating. For greater efficiency, it is better to install it with foil towards the radiator.

If possible, you can buy radiators without threaded connections, and during installation, weld them into a single system. But at the same time, there may be a problem with connecting to a line with a coolant.

The process of installing a ready-made warm water baseboard or a home-made one is fundamentally the same. Basically, you are assembling a "constructor" from several parts.

Installing a warm water skirting board with your own hands

After buying all necessary materials, you need to take care of the installation of the structure. Someone basically turns to the masters, because they are simply not confident in their abilities and are used to trusting specialists in everything.

But, in fact, there is nothing difficult in carrying out the installation yourself, without having any experience in carrying out such work. From tools you will need a hammer, nippers, adjustable wrenches, a drill. Now you can start installing the warm skirting board. The whole work algorithm is divided into several stages:

1. Measurement and installation of pipes. The length is cut off, which is necessary from the distributing device to the node connecting to the first structure. The pipes should not be closer than 5 centimeters to the floor. The protective pipe must always be on top. Experts advise against pulling out of corners.
2. Installation of an aluminum profile. It is fixed with self-adhesive tape, even a schoolboy can cope with this task.
3. Mounts for the radiator. It's also pretty simple. The step between the fixing elements must be more than 0.4 meters. Further - after determining the connection points, the clips are attached. Using a drill, holes are created for the dowels, after which the clips are fixed.
4. Copper pipes are connected to plastic ones. To do this, resort to conventional methods using bushings, gaskets and nuts. It is recommended to remove the brass plates at the joints. They are dismantled with nippers, but then they will not interfere with the fixation of the radiator in the clip. The latter design is advised to be looped back.
5. Now on each section it is necessary to put on an aluminum case. It is advisable to provide for inner sides covers reliable insulation. The installation of the covers themselves is carried out taking into account the type of skirting board. There are models when it is necessary to snap into place, sometimes - the method of fastening with screws is used.

The history of the emergence and improvement of heating structures for dwellings goes back centuries. Today, there are many ways to create a comfortable indoor temperature.

These are central heating radiators, mobile electric heaters, air heaters, underfloor heating and much more. Among all this variety, attention should be paid to such heating devices as a warm electric skirting board and a warm water skirting board. In this article we will try to convey to the reader the concept of what a warm skirting board is.

The principle of operation of warm skirting boards

The essence of the very idea of ​​heating with warm skirting boards is that the heating system is located along the perimeter of the room near the floor. The heated air in the convector rises slowly along the walls. Due to this, the entire volume of the room is warmed up.

Such a system of warm skirting boards, equipped with a thermostat with a temperature sensor, maintains a constant air temperature inside the room, does not form condensation on the glass of the window sashes, and prevents the appearance of dampness and mold on the walls.

Heat from convectors will not affect furniture

Warm skirting boards practically do not take up much space. In spite of high rates power, you can safely place furniture and other interior items near the convectors. The surface of the convectors does not heat up to a dangerous level of temperature that could cause burns.

The trading network offers for sale two types of warm skirting boards. This is an electric skirting board and a warm water skirting board. Let's take a look at each heater.

How to make a warm plinth with your own hands, powered by the mains? Having the skills to work with electrical engineering, you can assemble an electric warm skirting board completely independently.

The heater consists of two horizontal copper pipes. A silicon-insulated power cable runs through the top tube. A tubular electric heater is threaded into the lower copper tube. The whole system is controlled by a thermoregulation unit via an air temperature sensor.

Heating element - conventional heating element

When the temperature inside the room drops or rises, the heating elements periodically turn on and off, thus ensuring a constant temperature regime.

Purchase a set of warm skirting boards based on calculating the length of the heaters, turning angles and other related elements. Myself a heating element is a tubular electric heater (TEN), enclosed in a copper sheath.

In turn copper pipe threaded through the body made of ribbed thermal reflectors (radiator). Electric heating modules are produced in several standard sizes. Depending on the length of the electric heater, its power changes, which can be seen from the table:

№	Heating element length mm	Power W
1	700	140
2	1000	200
3	1500	300
4	2500	500

From heating elements of different lengths, installation of a warm skirting board is possible on any area, any configuration.

Installation of an electric skirting board

Install the heating element 3 cm from the wall

Only a person with extensive experience in electrical work can assemble your floor-standing electric heater by hand. Calculating the dimensions of heating elements, making radiator nozzles, installing connecting cables is a very difficult and responsible job. Therefore, it is easier to buy ready-made heating elements for warm skirting boards.

When a heating set of skirting boards has already been purchased, they begin preparatory work.

Knowing that the heated skirting board should not heat the walls, but the air, the fixings are made in such a way that the heating electrical elements are at a distance of at least 30 mm from the walls. The skirting board should be 140 mm high.

An electric heater is mounted in several stages:

1. I install the back box at a height of 4 - 6 cm from the floor. Lead the power wires to the junction box.
2. At a convenient height, a switch with a thermostat is mounted on the wall.
3. For the entire height of the skirting board, a protective tape 3 mm thick is glued to the walls.
4. Markings are applied to the walls for fastenings under the heated baseboards.
5. Drill holes for the dowels in the places where the fasteners are to be installed.
6. Screws are screwed into the dowel through the technological holes in the brackets.
7. A thermal heating module is hung on the installed brackets.
8. Connect modules electric wires parallel.
9. A residual current device (RCD) is connected to the system.
10. Connect the air temperature sensor.
11. Make a control switch on the electric skirting board. If a malfunction is detected, fix it immediately.
12. Install the plinth lining.

The skirting board is made of enamelled metal panels or plastic. The cladding should not reach the floor surface 20 - 30 mm. There are horizontal slots on the top of the panels. This design ensures the constant movement of air masses from bottom to top. The plinth facing, in addition to its function of the duct, plays a protective role against accidental mechanical influences.

Work related to the supply of electricity to the plinth, connection to an electric meter, installation of a thermoregulation system is best entrusted to a specialist.

Installation of a warm skirting board ensures complete electrical safety. The joints of the wires with the contacts of the modules are covered with heat-shrinkable tubes. The tubes protect the contact surface from moisture. For more information on installing a warm skirting board, see this video:

Despite the protection against moisture, experts warn that electric heaters should not be installed in rooms with high humidity.

More often, such systems are installed in private houses.

The assembled warm water skirting board with your own hands can create special comfort in living quarters. If we look at the water skirting board from a constructive point of view, we will see compact modules "stretched" in length.

Private households or public institutions are most suitable for the installation of a plinth water heating system. The necessary conditions for the installation of warm skirting boards - this is the presence gas boiler and central water supply.

In some cases, boilers operating on solid and liquid fuel... You will also need a reserve tank (water tower) to replenish the water level in the heating system.

Plinth convectors with water heat carrier are installed around the perimeter of the room. Modular liquid electric heater can be of various lengths. In the corners of the room, the modules are connected with special corner pieces than filling the fully heated perimeter of the room. Thanks to this arrangement of plinths, the room heats up more evenly than when heating with conventional water radiators.

If you decide to install a liquid heating skirting board system connected to central heating, you will need to obtain permission from the appropriate utilities to install this equipment.

Otherwise, you can be fined and forced to dismantle the heaters.

Pipe with hot water connected to a gas boiler

The skirting board design is pretty simple. The upper pipe, as a rule, leaves the gas boiler system, passes through the entire perimeter of the heated area and goes into the lower return pipe. The lower pipe returns the cooled heat carrier to the gas boiler.

The pipelines are built into the bodies of the finned heat transmitters. Due to the ribbed structure, the heat transfer surface increases many times over, which significantly contributes to the active circulation of heated air masses.

To install a warm plinth for water heating yourself, you must have sufficient experience in installing plumbing equipment. Talking below about the features of installing a warm water baseboard, we are addressing just such people. This will help when choosing one or another home heating system.

The principle of heating a room with a liquid converter plinth is no different from heating with other devices.

Cold air enters through the bottom groove of the skirting board body.

Passing through the heat exchanger, hot air rises slowly, spreading evenly throughout the entire volume of the room.

According to the laws of physics, the cooled air masses go down, thereby displacing the heated air up. Continuous circulation of the medium evenly heats the entire room.

Installation of plinth water heating system

In building supermarkets, you can always purchase the ready-made system of water heating for skirting boards you need. With even a little experience plumbing works, you can easily make a warm plinth with your own hands. For more information on heating with warm skirting boards, see this video:

After the corresponding marking of the attachment points of the brackets and their installation, the liquid modules themselves are mounted (see above installation electric skirting boards). Unlike electric heaters the installation of liquid modules requires careful control of the tightness of the piping connections.

It is better to entrust the installation of the heating system of skirting boards to specialists.

Testing of assembled skirting boards

Air molecules are much smaller than water molecules. Practice shows that checking the density of connections is more effective by creating high pressure compressed air inside the pipelines.

With the help of a compressor, an air pressure of about 5-6 ar is created in the pipes of the underfloor heating. All connections are covered with soapy water.

Bubbles will appear where leakage occurs. Leakages are eliminated and the entire system is retested for tightness.

The structure of the skirting boards is no different from the cladding of electrical modules. The boxes are usually made of thin-sheet enameled iron.

Manufacturers, meeting the wishes of consumers, make skirting boards of various colors. Basically, the assortment is dominated by hulls white or with a surface that imitates valuable breeds wood, natural stone or genuine leather.

Discreet, effective, comfortable heating... A very attractive combination of characteristics. A warm floor immediately comes to mind. And rightly so. But this is not the only heating method that meets these characteristics. There is also a warm plinth. The system is easier to install, most of it is available for maintenance at any time. So the heating plinth should also be considered as an option for invisible heating.

Warm skirting system: what is it

Heating skirting boards or skirting board heating are not new in the field of heating. The idea was proposed at the beginning of the last century, but due to the complexity of implementation and high prices, it was almost forgotten. With the development of technology, the complexity has become lower, but the price is still high. This is, in the main, and holds back potential users.

The main difference between this system is its non-standard form. heating appliances and their unusual location. Heaters are long and low, located around the perimeter of the room at floor level. The heaters are covered with a long decorative strip along outward appearance very similar to the baseboard. When installing, replace the usual skirting board. That is why such a system is very often called "warm skirting board". This system is very good at panoramic glazing- it may not be higher than the frames, so it is completely invisible. She is no worse in ordinary rooms - she is not visible at all.

Types of warm skirting boards

There are two types of warm skirting boards: electric and water. Electric warm skirting board is different in that each heating device is independent and can work separately. They can be installed in the event of a lack of capacity of the main heating - as an additional one, in case of cold weather. Installation is simple, but it works efficiently, is invisible, does not dry the air too much.

There is a warm water baseboard. This is one of the subspecies of water heating, that is, all heating devices are connected into one system. It can be either the main type (only skirting heaters) or an additional type of heating (together with or radiators).

Heating plinth device

In any case, a warm plinth looks like this: these are two copper tubes, which are at a distance of 7-15 cm from one another.To increase heat transfer, vertical plates made of aluminum, brass are put on the tubes (they cost a little less, but the heat transfer is slightly lower) or copper (more expensive and warmer option). The finned tubes are closed on top with decorative extruded aluminum covers. Aluminum was not chosen by chance - it transfers heat well. So the heated lid itself emits heat.

There are openings at the top and bottom of the cover for air movement. Through the lower ones, the cold is sucked in, through the upper ones, the heated one comes out. So it turns out heating comes from three sources:

Such a triple heat source contributes to the fact that the room heats up quickly, and the location of the heating elements around the perimeter contributes to uniform heating of the air throughout the volume.

Advantages and disadvantages of baseboard heating

What is the difference between heating using a warm skirting board? Warm air is drawn from the heating element upwards along the wall, warming up the wall. As you move up, the air gradually cools down, then descends, but not along the wall, but in the center of the room.

The result is that the warmest air is at the bottom of the room. The warmest object - apart from heaters - is the walls. Also warmer air is located at the floor. Rising up, it cools down and at head level it is slightly colder. The difference is small 1-2 degrees, but it is this temperature distribution that is better for a person's well-being.

An even distribution of heat over the entire area and volume is one of the most important advantages

Heating with a warm skirting board turns out to be inertial. It will not be possible to unambiguously attribute this property to advantages or disadvantages. There are both positive and negative points... Minus: until the walls warm up, the room is cool. Therefore, such a system is only good for houses. permanent residence and is completely unsuitable for a summer residence. The positive thing is that when heated, the walls work as a large stabilizer - they maintain the temperature at the same level, giving off the accumulated heat if necessary. Such a large heat accumulator will help to hold out for some time even if the heating is turned off.

The advantages of a heating system with heating skirting boards include their efficiency. After the walls are heated, the boiler consumes a minimum of fuel - only to maintain the temperature. And such modes are usually more economical. But this applies to any inertial heating system, so this cannot be considered a special advantage of a warm skirting board.

Warm skirting board assembly is a little closer

Available for baseboard heating and undeniable advantages... The first is one of the few systems that provides uniform heating. Even the corners are always warm. The second is the most inconspicuous system that easily fits into any interior. With all this, the heating devices are easily accessible, the system can be repaired at any time.

It has a warm plinth and a clear drawback - a high price. This is due to the fact that copper and aluminum are used to increase heat transfer, and they cost a lot.

Types of heating skirting boards

The baseboard heating system can be of two types: with electric and water heaters. At the installation stage, a system with warm water skirting boards is more complicated (a collector or beam connection is required), but during operation it is more economical. An electric warm skirting board is mounted quickly - you just need to fix the heaters to the wall, immediately after installation it is ready for use. But heating costs, like any electric heating, are high.

One of the most inconspicuous heating systems is a warm (heating) plinth

Heating device with hot water baseboard

The water baseboard heating system differs only non-standard form heating devices. The key components do not differ from the standard ones: you need a hot water boiler, a manifold unit and a pipe system with which a warm plinth is connected.

There is also a combined warm skirting board - with an electric heating element and pipes for the coolant

Note: optimal mode system operation - low temperature. On the flow 40-50 ° C, on the return about 5 ° C lower. Therefore, it is necessary to select a boiler or build a system based on this. If the boiler is gas, optimal choice- condensing. When installing any other, the system requires a heat accumulator and / or a mixing unit to reduce and stabilize the temperature.

Connection method

There are some peculiarities in the choice of the connection method. Serial connection of all baseboard heaters in the room is ineffective: until the coolant reaches the last in the heater branch, it will cool down a lot and they will remain cold almost all the time.

For hot water skirting boards are used ray system: devices are connected one at a time or in pairs. To do this, a manifold unit is built into the system, to which pipes are connected that go to heating devices. The disadvantage of such a system is the high consumption of pipes. After all, two pipes go to each device (or a small group) - for supply and return. The pipe consumption is much higher, but the heat distribution is more even and the system itself is more reliable. Why is it more reliable? If pipes or radiators are damaged in one group, all the others work normally.

Installation features

When installing a water baseboard heating, pipes are usually hidden in the floor. Laying them along the walls will not work, since the place is occupied by heating devices. That is, installation of warm water skirting boards is possible only at the stage of repair - you will have to raise the floors.

Special polymer pipes are recommended to be laid in a screed - they are not subject to corrosion and have low heat transfer, that is, heat losses during transportation of the coolant will be small. But since the availability of these systems for repair is not great, you need to take a high-quality product. renowned manufacturers, but it's not cheap.

Electric warm skirting board

An electric warm plinth externally differs from a water one only in the presence of terminals for connecting power. The rest is the same. They are two tubes with perpendicularly fixed aluminum / brass / copper plates. A heating element - heating element is located in the lower tube, wires for connection are laid in the upper one.

It is much easier to install and connect an electric warm skirting board. You just need to fix it, stretch the wires and connect them to the terminals. To maintain the set temperature, a thermostat is built into the system, which turns on and off the heaters. The use of thermostats is desirable, as it optimizes operation - it saves electricity.

Installation is really simple, but it is necessary to connect an electric warm plinth to a dedicated line with a properly selected rating of the circuit breaker and copper single-core wires of the appropriate section. So, in this case, repairs are required - it is customary to lay the wiring in the wall, and for this it is necessary to do it, that is, to break the walls.

Installation of a hot water baseboard system

The installation of an electric warm skirting board is very simple: we fix it on the wall. That's it, the system is ready for use. It remains to plug in the sockets. The main thing is to be correctly calculated, to stand. This is the main problem when using an electric warm skirting board. The water one is much more difficult to mount. Everything should be collected into a single system, and this is not easy.

Calculation of baseboard heating

A complete heat engineering calculation of heating is a long and complicated matter. The size and geometry of the room, the material of the walls, floor, ceiling are taken into account, the degree of insulation of all structural elements, including windows and doors, is taken into account. In general, the calculation is not easy at all. Therefore, most often they take the average figure, which is derived from the analysis of many calculations.

It is believed that to heat one square meter of the area of ​​a room with an average insulation, 100 W of thermal energy is needed. That is, to calculate the power of a warm plinth, you need to multiply the area of ​​the room by 100. Get the required figure. This is exactly how much (or better, about 20-25% more) that all the elements of a warm plinth should add up to.

For example, the area of ​​the room is 18 square meters... It will need 1800 watts to heat it. Next, we look at how much heat is emitted by one meter of heating. The water heating plinth can work in different modes, depending on the mode, it emits a different amount of heat. The table above shows data for one of the systems. For example, let's take the heat dissipation of one meter of a warm plinth from this table (other manufacturers may have significant differences).

For example, the system will operate with a supply temperature of 50 ° C. Then one running meter produces 132 watts of heat. To heat this room, you will need 1800/132 = 13.6 m of warm plinth. When ordering, it is better to add 20-25% stock. This margin is necessary so that the system does not work all the time at the limit. This time. And also in case of abnormal cold weather. These are two. So, we take 17 meters with a margin.

Once again, we draw your attention: this is the average data for some average house. And even the height of the ceilings is not taken into account here. She again took the average - 2.5 meters. If you have better insulation, you will need less heat, if worse than "average" - more. In general, this method gives only rough estimates.

How to proceed

The first thing to do is draw a plan on which to indicate the length of each heater, the length of the connecting pipes. After all, the length of a warm plinth is not always equal to the perimeter of the room. In this case, the sections of heating devices are interconnected with copper or polymer pipes... It is undesirable to use steel, as they chemically interact with copper (it is gradually destroyed).

Preparation for editing takes place long before its actual start. At the very beginning of the repair, even before the start of leveling the floor, from the boiler or manifold assembly pipes stretch to the connection point of the warm baseboard. The pipes are laid, tested for integrity, filled with a screed in a filled state under pressure (the working pressure in a private house is 2-3 atm, in a multi-storey house it is necessary to find out in the housing office). Then all renovation work and only after finishing the installation of a warm plinth begins on the walls and floor. Here is its order:

Actually, the installation of warm skirting boards is not too difficult. But the tightness of the joints is important and special attention must be paid to this.

To the level of comfort in own home most people are very attentive, while the microclimate is one of the main evaluation criteria, an indicator of comfort. In many private houses, individual heating allows you to feel comfortable. But build effective system, using a warm water baseboard - it is possible in a city apartment. At the same time, owners of private houses find such a system attractive because it is very economical.

What is a warm skirting board

A warm plinth is a system of fairly thin radiators, which are located in the lower zone of the walls of the rooms along the perimeter of the room. This construction of the system makes it convenient for a number of criteria, if we consider the laboriousness of installation and the need for certain large-scale repair work. In particular:

• a hot water heating system can be installed, practically without interfering with the existing infrastructure of inlets and coolant supply. This is especially valuable in apartments;
• warm water skirting board is possible without big problems connect instead of standard heating radiators. At the same time, installation is possible in houses of any type (with a loop supply or with a return flow mixing system);
• to modify the heating system in a house or apartment, you do not have to dismantle and create screeds or carry out other expensive and lengthy repairs. Unlike the underfloor heating system, the skirting board does not have special requirements for the installation and location of radiators;
• warm water skirting board, providing efficient heating, is able to play the role of an element of interior decoration. The design includes decorative panels, responsible manufacturers offer a variety of colors and designs;
• to increase the efficiency of heat transfer, you can choose the standard sizes of radiators that provide a good microclimate in a room with a certain length of the circuit and the degree of insulation. At the same time, the complexity and volume of installation work practically do not change.

Warm water skirting boards are easy to install; to carry out all operations to build the system, the contractor does not require special buildings and skills. The usual set of tools is enough: adjustable wrenches, a punch or impact drill, a screwdriver, a hammer, marking devices.

What are the advantages of circuit heating systems

If we compare the classic radiator system, underfloor heating and the contour skirting board, the latter shows several noticeable advantages that make it attractive in the eyes of consumers. For example:

• the heat dissipation possessed by a warm water baseboard is higher than the classic radiator system. This is due to the fact that the amount of the coolant is small, it moves at high speed. Therefore, the temperature drop at the inlet and outlet of the long loop is smaller. The radiator in the far corner of the room is always colder than the one at the entrance. This does not happen with the water circuit of the plinth;
• without clearly localized points of energy return, hot water skirting boards bypass the classic radiator system in terms of the room heating rate;
• unlike underfloor heating, the skirting board provides air curtains, which can be important in rooms with drafts. The heating circuit installed at the bottom of the walls creates a constant upward air flow. Walking along the walls window openings, in the area of ​​the door - it neutralizes the cold streams going outside.

In the competition of three systems, you can immediately weed out the classic radiator room because of its low efficiency, clear localization of energy return zones. Warm skirting and floors can only compete indoors different sizes... The first is ideal for relatively small rooms, shows top scores in rooms with drafts. Underfloor heating has proven itself well with a large floor area.

How a warm skirting board affects the condition of structures

Warm skirting can become optimal system heating in rooms with a low degree of thermal insulation. It shifts the dew point to the outside of the walls. It works like this:

• in an insufficiently insulated room, when air falls from the outside, the wall cools down;
• if the amount of heat coming to the structure (slab, masonry, layer monolithic fill) not enough for warming up - condensation falls on the surface, mold forms, in rare cases frost (in corner rooms the problem is more noticeable);
• a warm plinth installed around the perimeter of the room heats not only the air, but also partially the wall on which it is mounted;
• upward stream warm air gives off heat to the structure.

As a result of the operation of the heating circuit system, the amount of heat increases dramatically, designed to solve the problems of the dew point located inside the room. By heating the wall, a warm skirting board eliminates ice, mold, harmful to health, and other problems in the room.

To achieve the same result with a radiator system or underfloor heating, you will need to spend a large number of energy, frankly overheat the room so that the air in its volume raises the temperature of the wall.

High panels of warm skirting boards show themselves especially well in the fight against problem walls. Having an increased area, such radiators often do not have an increased volume. They are also built of thin tubes, have a heat exchanger made of plates of large dimensions (width, height), but often of shallower depth. On the mass market, a variety of products in this class can be purchased from a variety of manufacturers. They can become an interesting detail of interior decoration.

Basic design principles

If we consider the creation of a warm plinth in a separate room, the work is carried out according to a simple scheme and understandable principles.

1. The product is sold as radiators. Inside the system of thin plates pass copper tubes... Radiators of the same brand have the same dimensions in terms of height and depth, they are offered different lengths... Each standardized element of the heating system has a certain heat transfer capacity.
2. Plastic or copper pipes are used to connect individual radiators into a single circuit.
3. The set of elements of the basic system includes transition and clamping nuts, as well as elements for fastening to the wall. A soldered connection may be provided.

The radiator for the warm skirting board is mounted in a system of wall and decorative strips. The installation process itself is as follows:

• with help laser level the middle line of the passage of the warm water baseboard is marked. It is calculated so that it is located in the middle of the radiator and its wall mounting plate. The installation of the latter must be calculated very carefully. It is desirable that the distance from it to the floor allows you to close the gap with an ordinary plastic skirting board;
• in the right places of the wall (depending on the position of the technological holes), drilling is done and plugs are installed for fastening screws;
• mounted radiator wall strips and fixing plates that will hold the heat exchanger;
• in accordance with the installed structural elements, connecting pipes are tried on and cut off. In this case, length tolerances must be made in accordance with the manufacturer's recommendations, depending on the connecting fittings for fixing and waterproofing;
• radiators are installed starting from the inlet of the circuit;
• each subsequent one is connected by pre-cut tubes to the previous one.

At the end of work on the last radiator, the output is looped back. To connect the upper and lower pipes, either a finished part can be offered, or a connecting pipe can be used.

This work is most often done inside the apartment. The selection of the coolant and the return flow is carried out at the appropriate points of the heating riser. All that needs to be done is to cut off the existing radiators, dismantle the pipes and lay a warm baseboard. In a private house, the system is more complicated, but the given order of work is carried out in each room for equipping a separate heating circuit.

Detailed installation instructions:

Climate control and additional equipment

When installing a circuit heating system, especially if you are making a warm water baseboard with your own hands, it is necessary to create a regulation structure and install some additional nodes. The presence of the latter is especially important. If a warm plinth is made in an apartment and connected to heating risers, it is important not to violate the operating parameters of the centralized heating supply system.

Adjustment system

To regulate the amount of heat entering the room in the very simple case can apply shut-off valves... A conventional tap installed at the inlet to the circuit can change the amount of coolant pumped per unit of time. This is convenient in conditions of stable water temperature in the circuit and the climate outside: you can increase or decrease the circulation several times during the season "by eye".

Automated systems are more functional. In this case, a thermal head is installed at the output of the circuit. Such a valve, roughly speaking, controls the temperature drop and shuts off the circulation at the set values ​​of the water that has passed the heating system.

Thermal heads with external sensor temperature. They receive a signal from small devices located inside the room, which determine the microclimate indicators and set the heating operation mode.

Externally controlled thermal heads can also receive data on the air temperature outside the building in order to increase or decrease the heat transfer from the skirting board accordingly.

Circulation pump

Equipping a warm plinth circuit in an apartment is a necessary step if the heating system of the house is built on a flow-return circuit with mixing. In such a structure, the gravitational principle of the movement of the coolant is applied. It is deprived of a warm water baseboard. Therefore, forced pumping of water through the system will be required.

In apartments with a through circulation circuit (heating radiators without a mixing tube between supply and return), the use of your own pump for a warm plinth will allow you not to influence the pressure indicators existing in centralized system heating.

There can be several circulation pumps in one circuit of a warm plinth. This is done on long routes, especially if you want to avoid installing bulky components and pipes are not located strictly horizontally. It is also advisable to seek the advice of a hydraulic specialist. The presence of many turns of the circuit increases the total liquid resistance and requires the installation of one or more pumps of a certain capacity.

Construction of a heating system for a private house based on a heating boiler

If the apartment has heating pipes and the plinth is connected to a centralized system, the work is not very difficult. In a private house or apartment with its own heating boiler, collectors are used to power individual circuits of the rooms. This is the same class of equipment that is used to construct warm floors.

With its help, both the temperature of the water in the baseboard and the amount of heat that enters each room are set. You can purchase and install:

• systems on a two or three-way valve;
• a manifold equipped with flow meters for each circuit.

It is rational to use a system with centralized temperature control. In this case, temperature sensors are located in each room, the readings of which affect the operation of the collector flow meters.

The most sophisticated systems are built using weather sensors that determine the nature of the climate outside. They simultaneously affect the flow meters and the temperature of the coolant entering the skirting boards.

The manifold-based system is very functional, easy to use and durable. Today it is possible to purchase any complex installation for a warm water baseboard. Collectors are offered with 6,7, 10, 12 circuits, equipped with automatic air vents and other devices that prevent emergencies.