Actually How Radiant Floors Heating System Works

People Think How Radiant Floors Work:

Following are some common misconceptions about radiant floors; let’s just take a look at each point one by one. We have been contacted by many experts delivering plumbing services in California, and they requested to bust the myths. So after browsing through some common posts we have compiled a list of misconceptions people have about radiant floors. Let’s just learn about the heating installation in California and other areasas well.

You Won’t Be Electrocuted:

An idiot in an idiotic word isn’t it, let just replace the term with the word genius, to avoid the hate comments which will be thrown towards us later. Now geniuses think If you have the electric floor installed under the concrete or tile, you will be electrified the moment you will step a foot on it! It isn’t completely wrong. Radiant floors aren’t Tasers and you won’t be electrified stepping on it unless there is something terribly damaged underneath. If the floor is damaged, it will stop working, it won’t somehow transfer the electricity to your feet. Say if the thermostat isn’t working fine, or the cables have physically damaged the insulators which are protecting the whole system will keep the current to reach anywhere else, let alone yourself.

The Water Tubes Will Harm the Inner Structure of the House:

The warmth we feel underneath our feet is only provided by the boiling water which is running under our feet, but the system through which the water is traveling is a closed one. The tubes never allow the water to break through and seep within the grey structure. Unless there is an atomic explosion happened under you floor which you aren’t aware of, there is no need to worry about the water leakage.

Radiant Heat isn’t dry or moist:

Like what the hell! Since when the heat became wet or dry? Heat is a form of energy. It doesn’t have to be wet or dry. The system by which it is produced can use water or other sources but the fact that electricity or water is running in the main system, doesn’t make heat we tor dry.

How it actually Works:

Radiant flooring works on two basic techniques: hating with the help of electricity and heating with the help of warm water. The electric floor uses electric resistance cables embedded in thin mats. These mats can be placed under different types of floors. They can belaid under tiles, laminate wood, and processed stone to provide the house a toasty comfort.

These mats are actually connected to at her mostat. You can raise the temperature of that thermostat to keep the floorheated to a comfortable level. There are timers attached with the thermostat soyou can select to shut the system after the adjusted time.

Use the timer feature well to benefit you the most. Adjust the temperature to a warmer degree for the night so that you can have a toasty floor to land on.

Electric System:

The bathroom radiance offers a kind of bathroom safe floor which are protected with several layers of good insulation which keeps you from freezing inside the shower. The regular water floor heating radiance can’t be laid around the drains, it simply isn’t safe but the method which uses water as the main warming sources can be usedwell in the bathrooms and kitchens and other drains.

If you have decided to go with the electric floors, try to lay the mats in the areas of huge traffic. You don’t have to spread to the whole house since you can’t customize the size of it. Cutting anelectrical floor pad is not an option, you have to measure the floor and getthe pieces of exact same size from the manufacturer.

Hydronic System:

The water which warms the floor runs through PEX (cross linked polyethylene) tubing. This material is very strong itself and the fact that it is embedded in either mortar or plywood sub floor makes it even stronger. The plywood had precut cavities where the floor and tubing fit to perfection. The tubing net is associated with a water boiler which comes with a thermostat and a timer to control the temperature of the floor. A pump throws the water in the tubes.