For many of us, an autonomous heating system is really a stick wand through which you can make almost any housing comfortable and cozy. Warm water floor is one of the most comfortable, efficient and convenient ways of residential space heating. Despite the relative ease of construction and circuit operation understandable, even such heating systems may malfunction. Emergency situation in this case is a rare phenomenon, however, often quite unpleasant. The main problem faced by owners of private houses and apartments in this situation - is damage to the water circuit. Due to disturbances in the process or processes, and as a result of mechanical damage to the pipeline, a leak appears.
If you were found to malfunction of the heating system, therefore, you have a warm floor there is damage. If there are traces of the coolant flow, decreased pressure in the system, it is necessary to urgently resolve the situation. Otherwise, a new situation threatens overhaul screed flooring reconstruction. How to find the damaged water pipe floor, a sequence of actions in a similar situation, take a closer look.
The reasons due to which there may be damage to the underfloor heating
Underfloor heating for its reliability and operational parameters is one of the most reliable, practical and durable heating system. The design features make it possible to not only their own, with their hands stacked floor heating in your home, but also make it possible to eliminate the in-house technical problems. From a technological point of view, any heating system heated floor worth the investment and efforts, but even the most reliable equipment can fail, and it is absolutely the wrong moment.
For reference: functional, properly folded warm floor can effectively carry out their work for a long time. According to the technology water floor normally works within 25-30 years, if you observe all the operating parameters.
If the problem with the warm water floor is not critical, you can try to rectify arising technical failures. However, in order to do that this time things right, you must have an idea of how the water floor in your home. The main reasons which may show up in the warmth of the floor flow of coolant commonplace. This is usually our negligence. In most cases, damage to the water loop is applied during construction.
Heavy mechanical working tools, for example, hammer, cause mechanical damage to the pipeline walled up very easily in the concrete floor. If you do not know how the pipe is laid in the floor, in this situation, the likelihood of damage to the integrity of the water circuit is almost 100%.
During installation negligent behavior of workers may cause that the pipe will receive a mechanical damage even before it is laid. Normal random blows of a hammer, a drop of gravity will cause the appearance of microcracks in the walls of the pipe.
For reference: such troubles often arise in the apartment with electrical wiring, carrying out installation of suspended ceilings, installing or removing interior walls. Lack flowsheet leads to unauthorized damage the electric cable. The situation is similar with warm floors as water, and with an electric cable.
Another reason that breakage may occur defective tube water circuit. It is in most cases associated with the use in the process of mounting Consumables unknown origin. Mismatch technological parameters of the tube material, which is exploited Heated floor, often leads to disruption of the integrity of the pipeline.
For example: a tube from an unknown to the manufacturer, the missing certificate can have nonuniform wall thickness. By increasing the coolant temperature and the operating pressure in the system weaknesses in the pipeline may be fracture site.
In this respect, it should be recalled that the unprofessional installation of the heating system often becomes the cause of the leak. Poorly compounds are made in 50% of cases, cause the water circuit violation of integrity.
On a note: professionals recommend when installing floor heating pipe to use whole pieces of pipe, trying to do so that would be all the fittings and connections outputting.
Identify the extent of damage to the eye is almost impossible. The tube may be at first glance a whole, the junction for the appearance of durable and reliable. By running the heating system, the pressure rises in the conduit (1.5-2 bar), which naturally causes the liquid to seek access to the weak points of the water circuit.
Last error, which can cause disruption of the tube, misfolded screed.
At first glance, the reasons for which a warm floor can be damaged a lot. Do not panic. In this situation, the main thing to choose the right course of action and proceed to an emergency.
Remedy warm water floor
Repair work in detecting a break in the heat of the floor are built on a particular algorithm. It is important that almost all the major elements of the heating system located in the access area. Procedure in a situation where you want to fix a leak in the water system, as follows:
- stops water supply to the water circuits. For this purpose, all supply valves on the manifold (you do not know exactly which circuit is broken);
- if the damage is caused by the operation of the instrument, you have easier, you know, the place where the flow;
- place of course freed from ties and debris;
- remove the remnants of the concrete, making access to the damaged pipe should be neat. Work steps necessary to perforate, chipping small fragments in the screed distance (10-15 cm) from the damaged portion.
At this first stage of your action ends. Now, when before you place the damage, the entire problem is reduced to pressure testing the water circuit.
For this purpose, you will need a hacksaw or tin snips. Edge trimmed pipes carefully washed from the dirt, shavings and debris. The edges of the tube are deployed special scan. This is carried out to align the holes, and that would be after. Put fitting not slipped. Only now can be trimmed to the pipe fitting to put on and drive it. Further, similarly being prepared and crimping the other end of the damaged pipe.
In place of the damaged section of the pipe piece prepared set of identical diameter and size slightly greater than the length of the deleted fragment.
After mounting and removing position breakage can start to run in the water conduit. If all goes well and no side effects in the water circuit is not clear, you can begin to restore ties.
Important! After the completion of rehabilitation works, should make a clear plan - a scheme which will indicate the place of opening tie and make a new connection. This precaution will allow you to know to find the break point in the event of further maintenance or during repairs the dwelling.
In the video you can see how to stop the leakage of the water circuit
How can you identify the hidden open water floor
Normally, when you see the place of the cliff itself, the procedure is simple and straightforward. And what to do in cases where you do not have the slightest idea of what the place you have a leak. Linoleum, tiles or other floor covering skillfully camouflage seat leakage, whereas Water flows freely underground, destroying the structural elements of the house, or worse, flooding neighbors below.
To find the break point of the water circuit, there are many ways simple and primitive, starting with filling the colored fluid feed system and ending in the high pressure air conduit. Way out colored fluid or air stream will show you approximately the problem area, where there is a search for leaks.
These examples are not that complicated at first glance, however, for this you will have to drain the water from the entire heating system, which at the height of the heating season is fraught with considerable discomfort.
Today, in these situations, it uses a completely different, simple and effective tool - the thermal imager. In this case, such a device will allow you to find the break point with high precision to the millimeter. Usually master the companies involved serve the heating technology used similar equipment. Thanks to thermal imaging you can not only detect the defect, but also to receive detailed recommendations for troubleshooting. Further, all of the knurled pattern is, opening or screed of tile cleaning the injury site and the removal of faulty fragment.
