🔨 Warm floor under laminate: types and characteristics of installation

If you live in a private home or on the first floor of an apartment building, under floor heating laminate It will help you to provide a comfortable temperature of flooring. Such a system can be used as main and auxiliary heat source. Offer to meet with its existing varieties and procedures for installation work.

How to choose laminate under floor heating: the main criteria

If you decide as a decorative floor covering purchase laminateWe offer to get acquainted with the basic criteria that should be guided in choosing a suitable option. This allows you to select a model for the specific operating conditions.

According to the resolution, marking and thermal insulation properties

Marking the laminate to determine the possibility of using a specific model:

• Warm Wasser and H2 These icons indicate the possibility of laying laminate flooring on warm water;
• Underfloor heating. The model may be mounted on the substrate with a cable and infrared heating. Such a laminate can not be laid on the floor warm water.

Attention! Indicated next to the icons temperature corresponds to the recommended operating temperature floor system.

Thermal insulating properties of the laminate should be appropriate. Noteworthy thermal resistance ratio: the higher the value, the better the flooring will retain heat. Also note the thickness and density of the fabric. For underfloor heating is better choose laminate 8-10 mm thick.

On a class depending on the room

When choosing a laminate class should consider the appointment of the premises. Considering that during operation the coating formed will be exposed to temperature extremes, it is preferable to use the panels 32 and 33 Class.

Attention! The higher the class, the better the performance of the laminate characteristics and higher costs.

By type slat connection

There is a laminate with an adhesive compound and a locking manner. The first option involves using a special adhesive, by means of which the desired spatial position of the elements relative to each other. The second type of panel have a special configuration. Compound slats carried by special locks. Because of this manages to perform laying laminate by "floating" technology.

Attention! For floor heating systems can only use a laminate with a locking manner slat compound.

More detailed advice on choosing a laminate, you can see in the following video:

The choice of substrate for laminate for floor heating: the requirements and basic

Stacking the laminate to operate backingWhich allows to reflect heat in the desired direction and acts as a damper.

She must:

• have good thermal conductivity due to poor heat transfer coefficient of resistance, a small thickness and the presence of the perforations;
• have resistance to high temperature;
• be environmentally friendly. Including at elevated temperatures;
• have sufficient water vapor permeability.

These characteristics are:

• bung. It is produced in the form of sheets and web material. Environmentally safe and thermal resistance. Due to the high thermal resistance is not suitable for electric warm floor. It has a high cost;

• foamed polyethylene. May have different thicknesses. Good cut, allowing the substrate to give a desired configuration. Demand due to its low cost;
• extruded polystyrene with perforation. In a decentralized heating system - the best option. Optimal variant for the laminate.

Advantages and disadvantages of different types of underfloor heating for laminate

Under the laminate can be installed heated floors of various kinds. Each option has its advantages and disadvantages, which determine the possibility of their use in specific circumstances. We offer to meet with the existing varieties in order to make it easier to choose the appropriate option.

Water floor heating

Such a construction may have a thickness of 5-15 cm, depending on their features and characteristics overlap. The coolant acts as a warm water circulating through the pipes. Water floor heating It consists of several layers, including:

• waterproofing, Laid directly on the ground;
• damper mounted on the perimeter of the room;
• insulation;
• a heating circuit;
• the carrier layer, which is laid laminate. In most often acts as a carrier layer of concrete strainer. Less likely to laying gipsovolokonnyh plates.

The advantages of this heating system should include:

The disadvantage is:

Electrical floor heating

The cable acts as the main element of similar design. Conversion of electrical energy into heat can achieve the desired effect. Lead the cables can be single and two-core. For premises preferred the second option, which creates less electromagnetic radiation.

Attention! Using special electric mats, which are based on an electrical cable, simplifies installation work.

The main advantages warm electric floor is an:

The disadvantage is:

Electrical water

Such systems combine the advantages of electric water and sex. Its basis is the heating circuit with an integrated electric cable with a reliable insulation. Thanks to this performance manages to develop a cheap heat and avoid the formation of electromagnetic radiation.

The advantages of such systems are:

The disadvantage is the inability to mount in areas with high levels of humidity.

Infrared

Modern system used most frequently as an additional heat source. The main structural element is an infrared film, are stacked on the thermally reflective material and closable polyethylene.

The advantages Infrared floor heating under the laminate include:

The disadvantage is:

amorphous metal

The system is based amorphous metal alloys having good performance characteristics:

• high moisture resistance;
• high efficiency of power conversion to thermal energy;
• good corrosion resistance;
• sufficient strength;
• optimum ductility;
• lack of electromagnetic safety;
• high thermal conductivity.

In systems, which are based on amorphous metal strip, has the following advantages:

Installation of floor heating with subsequent packing laminate: key points

The procedure for the installation work directly depends on the design of a warm floor. We offer to meet with key elements to form a coating for a long time and qualitatively able to perform its function.

Water: the wet or dry process

If you decide to give preference to a water heating circuit, the instruction on installation works as follows:

Illustration	Description of the action
	Prepare the base. Puts insulating substrate, and then a step of 20 mm boards. Recent attached to the base using dowels of sufficient length
	Laid on top of the foil heater, filling them to form grooves.
	To improve the thermal insulation characteristics of the formed foil construction fill the groove.
	Fasten foil insulate brackets.
	In laying the shaped grooves pipes for water loop. Install laminate top.

Instead of improvised means can be used ready-made materials, greatly facilitate the procedure for the installation work. Installation procedure is shown in the following video:

Electric: using a cable or mats

If the heat source is used electrical cable installation procedure will be somewhat different. Offer to meet with the sequence of execution of works:

Infrared: using tapes, rods or mats carboxylic

Mounting of the heating circuit using an infrared film is as follows:

Illustration	Description of the action
	Laid layer of foil material pre-cut insulation in resolution. Strips should be placed back to back. Joints sizing tape.
	Infrared film is unwound and cut to size. Length is selected in such a way that the film is not in contact close to the wall, as well as in areas where it will be located furniture or heavy objects.
	Putting the strip into a single circuit. Contact isolate using a special material.
	Connecting the heating circuit to power supply system. We are conducting tests.
	Was covered with a polyethylene film and laid laminate.

More detail infra-red film mounting process is shown in the following video:

amorphous metal

Mounting structure is performed in the following sequence:

Illustration	Description of the action
	The base is cleaned of mud and accumulated debris.
	Mounted insulating material and taking into account the state of the base composition.
	Spread mat, leaving a gap between adjacent strips of 5 cm. fiberglass mesh on the top.
	To exclude bias strips during operation mats fastened with adhesive tape or glue gun. Unacceptable ingress of adhesive to a heating circuit.
	Paving the cold connection wire between the mats. Connect the heating circuit to the electrical system. We check the availability of the system.
	Turning off the heating circuit from the power supply system. Fill screed 6 mm thick. After drying, the composition proceed to the laying of laminate.

Ready system laminate flooring and floor heating - "two in one" company Alloc

If you do not want to mount the first "warm floor" system, and then the decorative cover, pay attention to the innovative laminate with integrated heating. The power board may be different, that allows you to choose the best option for a particular room. Installation procedure is shown in the following video:

What a warm floor under the laminate is best, according to our editorial staff

Which option will be preferred depends on the performance of the jobsite and building location. We offer to meet with some brands, the characteristics of which is not in doubt:

Review of STN City Heat 150 W / m²:

Review of the infrared field under warm laminate flooring Teplo:

Share in the comments, a warm floor in your home, and why do you prefer it to this species.