The history of the emergence and improvement of home heating designs goes back centuries. Today there are many ways to create comfortable temperature inside residential premises.
These are central heating radiators, mobile electric heaters, air heaters, heated floors and much more. Among all this variety, you should pay attention to such heating devices as electric warm baseboard and warm water baseboard. In this article we will try to convey to the reader the concept of what a warm baseboard is.
The principle of operation of warm baseboards
The essence of the very idea of heating with warm baseboards is that the heating system is located around the perimeter of the room near the floor. The heated air in the convector slowly rises along the walls. Due to this, the entire volume of the room is heated.
This warm baseboard system, equipped with a thermostat with a temperature sensor, maintains a constant air temperature inside the room, does not form condensation on the window frames, and prevents the appearance of dampness and mold on the walls.
Heat from convectors will not affect furniture Warm baseboards practically do not take up much space. Despite the high power ratings, you can safely place furniture and other interior items near the convectors. The surface of convectors does not heat up to dangerous levels of temperature that cause burns.
The retail chain offers two types of warm baseboard systems for sale. These are electric baseboards and warm water baseboards. Let's look at each heater.
How to make a warm baseboard with your own hands, powered by electricity? Having skills in working with electrical engineering, you can assemble an electric warm baseboard completely independently.
The heater consists of two horizontally located copper tubes. A power cable coated with silicone insulation passes through the top tube. A tubular electric heater is threaded into the lower copper tube. The entire system is controlled through an air temperature sensor by a thermoregulation unit.
The heating element is a regular heating element When the temperature inside the room drops or increases, the heating elements periodically turn on and off, thereby ensuring a constant temperature regime.
Purchase a set of warm baseboards based on calculating the length of the heaters, rotation angles and other related elements. The heating element itself is a tubular electric heater (TEH) enclosed in a copper shell.
In turn, the copper pipe is threaded through a housing of ribbed heat reflectors (radiator). Electric heating modules are produced in several sizes. Depending on the length of the electric heater, its power changes, as 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 baseboard is possible in any area, of any configuration.
Installation of electric skirting board
Install the heating element 3 cm from the wall Only a person with extensive experience in electrical work can assemble their floor electric heater manually. Calculating the dimensions of heating elements, making radiator nozzles, installing connecting cables is a very complex and responsible job. Therefore, it is easier to buy ready-made heating elements for warm baseboards.
When a heating set of baseboards has already been purchased, preparatory work begins.
Knowing that a heated baseboard should not heat the walls, but the air, the fastenings are made in such a way that the heating electrical elements are located at a distance of at least 30 mm from the walls. The plinth should be 140 mm high.
The electric heater is installed in several stages:
- I install the mounting box at a height of 4–6 cm from the floor. Connect the power wires to the junction box.
- A switch with a thermostat is mounted on the wall at a convenient height.
- A protective tape 3 mm thick is glued to the walls along the entire height of the plinth.
- Markings are applied to the walls for fastenings for heated baseboards.
- Drill holes for dowels in the places where fasteners are to be installed.
- Screws are screwed into the dowel through the technological holes in the brackets.
- The thermal heating module is hung on the installed brackets.
- The modules are connected with electrical wires in parallel.
- A residual current device (RCD) is connected to the system.
- Connect the air temperature sensor.
- The electric baseboard is turned on for control. If a malfunction is detected, correct it immediately.
- Install the baseboard cladding.
The plinth lining is made of enameled metal panels or plastic. The cladding should not reach the floor surface by 20 - 30 mm. There are horizontal slots on the top of the panels. This design ensures constant movement of air masses from bottom to top. In addition to its function as an air duct, the plinth lining plays a protective role against accidental mechanical influences.
Work related to supplying electricity to the baseboard, connecting to an electric meter, and installing a thermoregulation system is best entrusted to a specialist.
Installation of a warm baseboard ensures complete electrical safety. The places where the wires connect to the module contacts are covered heat shrink tubing. The tubes protect the contact surface from moisture. For more information about installing warm baseboards, watch this video:
Despite protection from moisture, experts warn that electric heaters should not be installed in rooms with high humidity.
Most often, such systems are installed in private homes.
Special comfort in residential premises can create an assembled warm water baseboard with his own hands. If we look at the water plinth from a constructive point of view, we will see compact modules “stretched” in length.
Private households or public institutions are most suitable for installing baseboard water heating systems. The necessary conditions for the installation of warm baseboards - this means the presence of a gas boiler and central water supply.
In some cases, boilers operating on solid and liquid fuels are used. You will also need a reserve tank (water tower) to replenish the water level in the heating system.
Skirting convectors with water coolant are installed around the perimeter of the room. The modular liquid electric heater can be of various lengths. In the corners of the room, the modules are connected with special corner elements, which fills the completely heated perimeter of the room. Thanks to this placement of baseboards, the room is heated more evenly than when heating with conventional water radiators.
If you decide to install a hydronic baseboard heating system connected to your central heating, you will need to obtain permission to install this equipment from the relevant utility companies.
Otherwise, you may be fined and forced to dismantle the heaters.
Pipe with hot water connected to a gas boiler The design of the plinth is quite simple. The upper pipe, as a rule, exits the gas boiler system, passes through the entire perimeter of the heated area and passes into the lower return pipe. The lower pipe returns the cooled coolant to the gas boiler.
The pipelines are mounted in the housings of finned heat transferrs. 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 water heating baseboard yourself, you must have sufficient experience in installing plumbing equipment. When we talk below about the features of installing a warm water baseboard, we are addressing precisely such people. This will help when choosing a particular home heating system.
The principle of heating a room with a liquid converter baseboard is no different from heating with other devices.
Cold air enters through the lower groove of the baseboard body.
Passing through the heat exchanger, the hot air slowly rises, spreading evenly throughout the entire volume of the room.
According to the laws of physics, cooled air masses sink down, thereby displacing heated air upward. Continuous circulation of the medium evenly heats the entire room.
Installation of baseboard water heating system
In construction supermarkets you can always purchase the ready-made water heating system for baseboards you need. Even with little experience plumbing work, you can easily make a warm baseboard with your own hands. For more information about heating with warm baseboards, watch this video:
After appropriately marking the mounting points for the brackets and installing them, the liquid modules themselves are installed (see installation of electric baseboards above). Unlike electric heaters installation of liquid modules requires careful monitoring of the tightness of pipeline connections.
It is better to entrust the installation of the baseboard heating system to specialists.
Testing of installed 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 pipelines.
Using a compressor, an air pressure of about 5-6ar is created in the heated floor pipes. All connections are covered with a soap solution.
Bubbles will appear in areas where leakage occurs. Leaks in connections are eliminated and the entire system is retested for leaks.
The structure of water baseboard boxes is no different from the lining of electrical modules. The boxes are usually made of thin-sheet enameled iron.
Manufacturers, meeting the wishes of consumers, make skirting board bodies of various colors. The assortment is mainly dominated by enclosures white or with a surface imitating valuable wood species, natural stone or genuine leather.
The popularity of baseboard heating is gradually growing. It is characterized by extreme compactness and is not striking when compared with classic heating systems. Let's see how to make a warm baseboard with your own hands and what you need for it. Some sources state that the system will only achieve maximum efficiency if it is assembled by a specialist. But in reality this is far from the case. The main thing is to have a set of tools and straight hands.
What is baseboard heating?
It is possible to install baseboard heating yourself - there is nothing complicated about it. But before we give information on installation work, it is necessary to understand what a warm baseboard is and how it works. We will also talk about the types of baseboard heating equipment.
Warm baseboard, which we will do with our own hands, is a modern heating equipment, with minimal dimensions. Already from the name alone it is clear that it is intended for installation in the baseboard area. Compact radiators are used here, reminiscent in their appearance skirting boards, only of a larger size.
The very principle of operation of baseboard heating is interesting. It is convective, that is, the most ordinary natural convection works here. And the equipment itself is a compact convector heater. These heaters work as follows:
A huge advantage of warm baseboards is that they warm up not only the air in the room, but also its walls.
- Skirting convectors heat the air inside them, causing it to rise upward;
- Rising along the walls to the ceiling, warm air displaces colder air masses from there;
- The cold and denser air that goes down is sucked into the convectors and heated up to go up again.
After some time, the room becomes noticeably warmer, because air circulation covers the entire volume.
Warm baseboards differ from ordinary radiators in that the warm air coming out of them seems to stick to the walls, gradually heating them. After some time, they will stop feeling cold. Separately, it should be noted that the air near the floors will be almost as warm as in the middle of the room - thanks to this, users will not have the feeling of cold feet.
If you are going to make a warm baseboard with your own hands, you will save money in family budget. There is nothing complicated here, and installation does not require any special or expensive tools. And the efficiency from self-installation It won't hurt one bit. But you will have extremely compact and almost invisible heating at your disposal.
Varieties
In this review we will tell you how to make a warm baseboard with your own hands. But before that, you need to decide what equipment will be used to heat the premises. Baseboard heating can be water or electric, and the choice of one system or another depends on the availability of certain energy sources. Water systems are powered by boilers of any modification, and electric ones need a reliable power grid.
Water-based warm skirting boards
Installing water-heated baseboards with your own hands is a complex process. The system should be not only effective, but also airtight, so as not to flood the floors and neighbors (if there are any). Water baseboard heaters are small-sized convectors. The basis for their production are non-ferrous metals - copper and aluminum. The pipes running inside are made of copper, and the radiators are made of aluminum.
A combination of non-ferrous metals provides the equipment with maximum efficiency and heat transfer. By the way, to increase power, water convectors are made of two rows - they are thicker, but more powerful.
When installing warm baseboards with your own hands, you need to mark the contours - one or two contours for each room, depending on its area. The maximum recommended length of each circuit is 15 meters. Accordingly, if the perimeter is larger, it is recommended to divide it into two contours. Convectors in separate directions are connected in series.
To ensure uniform heating, a distribution manifold is installed in the system. Each circuit is fed from a separate pipe with a tap - if anything happens, the coolant supply can be turned off without affecting other circuits. This feature can be useful in emergency situations.
When installing a warm water baseboard with your own hands, you should remember that the operation of this equipment is centralized systems heating is dangerous - convectors may not withstand water hammer or high pressure, which will lead to their destruction. In order to protect the heating from damage, an intermediate heat exchanger is installed in the system. As a result, in an apartment with central heating an independent heating circuit, taking heat from the heating plant.
Electric heated skirting boards
Making an electric warm baseboard with your own hands is much easier than installing water radiators. The whole point is that This equipment is powered from the mains and does not require a coolant supply. Electric baseboard convectors are similar in design to water appliances, but instead of copper pipes, heating elements are located here. They are the sources of heat.
Skirting electric convectors can be equipped with built-in thermostats. But the easiest way to control each circuit is with a remote thermostat. If necessary, consumers will be able to implement the system remote control via GSM networks or the Internet.
Advantages and disadvantages
Now you know that warm baseboards can be water and electric. Let's now look at the pros and cons of baseboard heating, and then move on to the DIY installation process. Let's start with the positive features:
- Compactness is the most important advantage of a warm baseboard. The miniature dimensions of water and electric baseboard convectors allow you to make heating system almost invisible;
- Uniform heating - unlike traditional convector heating, warm baseboards heat rooms more evenly. Air temperature nearby flooring about the same as in the middle of the room;
- Possibility of heating premises for any purpose - warm baseboards are installed in children's rooms, living rooms, kitchens, office premises, as well as on covered balconies and loggias;
- Possibility of heating rooms with panoramic windows– baseboard heating will prevent cold air from entering the room and will combat the formation of condensation.
In addition, warm baseboards can work in conjunction with any other heating devices, for example, wall convectors.
Key disadvantages:
When planning the installation of baseboard heating, make sure that the furniture does not interfere with the movement of air flow.
- When installing warm baseboards with your own hands, you should think about the arrangement of furniture. The thing is that by blocking the baseboard area with a high cabinet, this area will lose its effectiveness;
- Baseboard heating is incompatible with built-in furniture– it covers the installation area;
- High energy consumption is true for electric heated baseboards. Tariffs for electricity are very high, so monthly expenses will be very impressive.
But the compactness and efficiency of baseboard heating more than covers all its shortcomings. Let's now see how to install a warm baseboard with your own hands.
DIY installation work
We have come to the most important section, which will tell you how to make heating from warm baseboards with your own hands. First, let's look at water equipment.
Installation of water-based heated skirting boards
To install a warm water baseboard with your own hands, we will need:
- Manifold with taps;
- Metal-plastic pipes;
- Water baseboard convectors with decorative covers and plugs;
- Thermal insulation;
- Set of tools;
- Metal or plastic adapters.
The first step is to install a heating manifold and connect the pipes feeding your baseboard heating to it.
First you need to install the collector and connect it to the heating system. The system itself can be powered by any type of boiler - gas, solid fuel, liquid, electric or universal. Remember that the recommended system pressure is 3 atm.
We continue to install warm baseboards with our own hands - now we need to calculate the power of the radiators based on the area of the room. As an example, let's take a room of 12 square meters. m. (4x3 m) with one window. To heat it we need 1.2 kW of thermal energy. The length of the perimeter, minus the 90 cm wide doorway, will be 13.1 meters. In total we will need 13 linear meters baseboard heaters with a power of 100 W per 1 meter.
If necessary, you can purchase more powerful radiators and equip not all the walls with skirting boards, but only some of them. This approach is useful if there are large cabinets and built-in furniture in the rooms.
The next stage of installing a warm baseboard with your own hands is pipe routing. They are laid along the subfloors, reaching the beginning of each contour. Each circuit has two pipes - one supplies coolant, and the other takes it away. Here we will need adapters for connecting to radiators. After this, we proceed to installing baseboard heaters.
When installing warm baseboards with your own hands, do not forget about good thermal insulation - it is placed between the walls and radiators. Next, we screw the base to which the heat exchanger made of non-ferrous metals will be attached. After this, we proceed to connecting the system - we fix the heat exchangers, connect them with straight or angled adapters, tightening the connecting nuts well to prevent leaks.
After you finish installing the contours of warm baseboards with your own hands, it’s time to check the system for leaks. The simplest option is to supply water under pressure, filling the entire system and shutting it off. Now we check all connections, making sure there are no leaks. If everything is normal, you can start the heating system and check that it is in working order.
At the last stage, we close the radiators we installed ourselves with decorative covers (face profiles). The gaps between them and the end sections are closed with special plugs - here everything depends on the design of the selected radiators.
Now you know that there is nothing difficult in installing warm baseboards with your own hands - you just need to ensure the tightness of all connections. If water is leaking somewhere, arm yourself wrench and tighten the connecting nuts. Please note that hot coolant is usually supplied to the upper pipe and leaves through the lower pipe.
Installation of electric heated skirting boards
Electric baseboard heaters are installed in much the same way as their water counterparts. Only they work not due to hot coolant, but from electrical network. Instead of a collector, a distribution electrical panel is installed in the system. In him it is necessary to provide a separate circuit breaker for each circuit. We will have one circuit (direction) for each room.
Electric warm baseboards are connected in the same way as regular electrical sockets.
Instead of pipes we lay electric wires– do not forget to make sure that they are suitable in cross-section, otherwise they may not withstand the load. In order to ensure the integrity of the connecting wires and extend their service life, we recommend laying them in flexible plastic pipes(when laying along subfloor). You can also route cables along the walls, securing them with mounting brackets.
To control the temperature, we recommend installing one thermostat for each room - separate adjustment will allow you to turn off an unnecessary circuit and save on energy consumption. All this can be easily installed and configured with your own hands, without the help of qualified specialists.
- We lay thermal insulation;
- We screw the bases with heat exchangers;
- We make electrical connections;
- We cover the equipment with decorative protective panels;
- We connect the circuits to the thermostats and to the distribution board.
Once again we inspect all electrical circuits, make sure that all connections are correct and that there are no protruding or uninsulated conductors. After this, we turn on the machines in the switchboard and check the operation of the system.
Electric heated baseboards are much easier to install yourself than water ones. There are no pipes or leaks, but working with electricity requires no less care. remember, that installation work must be carried out with the system de-energized - connect it only after a final check. Never reach into connected electric convectors with bare hands, as this may result in an electric shock.
Video
The most famous in modern ways Insulation is considered to be the “warm floor” system and radiators. But there is another rather unusual, but already gaining popularity solution - a warm water baseboard. It is efficient, compact and combines the advantages of radiators and underfloor heating. Using this method you can heat both office rooms, and living rooms.
What is a warm baseboard system and how it works
Heating baseboards are special compact heaters located along the floor around the perimeter of the room. Their thickness usually ranges from 3 cm, which is similar to conventional skirting boards. The height of these devices is usually 12-15 cm.
Water heaters can be used either independently or combined with traditional ways heating
To install a water baseboard, you need a boiler that will heat the liquid and direct it into the pipes. But with electricity everything is somewhat simpler. It is already in the house and there are no additional installations not required.
An electric warm baseboard will warm up the room faster than a water baseboard. And to install it, just lay it and secure it network cable which then close external panel. Next, the device is connected to the distribution block and begins its work.
However, it is worth keeping in mind that with expensive electricity tariffs, such heating will be very expensive. And using a water heater is somewhat safer and more convenient than an electric one.
This system also has some disadvantages:
- Incompatibility with built-in furniture, since in this case the installation area is closed;
- Electricity costs;
- Low power, which means it won’t be possible to quickly warm up the room.
When installing a warm baseboard, you should correctly arrange the furniture in the room so that it does not interfere with the movement of warm air currents.
Self-installation of warm baseboards
The warm baseboard system is very easy to install and you can easily install it yourself, without the involvement of specialists.
Installation of warm water baseboard:
- The distance between the section and the collector is measured. Next, the pipe is cut to the required length with a margin. Ideally, the tube outlet should be 6 cm from the floor and end at least 15 cm before the corner.
- Next, skirting boards should be glued along the entire perimeter of the room. The profiles need to be cut and installed with tape or silicone. You need to start installation from a corner.
- Then the holders are installed. To do this, holes are drilled 15 cm from the end of the profile, and for the remaining clips - a step of 40 cm.
- Convectors are fixed. The pipe is connected to the section so that there are no kinks. Copper tubes are equipped with nuts, rubber gaskets and a bushing.
- Next, the radiator is applied to the wall and connected to the section with an adapter. The housings should fit tightly to each other, but you need to step back 1 mm from the corners so that there is room for decorative elements.
- The remaining sections are assembled in the same way. This needs to be done along the perimeter - moving from one corner to another.
- The last section must be looped with a stainless steel sleeve.
- At the end of the work, plugs are placed and corner connections. The system is connected to the collector and water is supplied.
After supplying the liquid, you need to observe the operation of the heater and check the reliability of the assembly and the absence of leaks.
Electric heated skirting boards are installed almost exactly the same way as water ones. Only instead of a collector, a distribution block is used, where there are circuit breakers for each circuit. Instead of pipes, electrical wires of suitable cross-section are laid.
To control the temperature, it is advisable to install thermostats in each room - this will allow you to turn off unnecessary circuits and thereby save energy.
Warm baseboard (video)
There is nothing complicated about installing a warm baseboard. This can be done independently by installing a reliable, convenient and quality system to heat the room.
Advanced renovation technologies are constantly bringing something new and attractive to your home. One such solution is water heating, which combines the advantages of heating through the floor and radiators.
Heating operating principle
The heating module is a radiator with copper tubes. A special feature of the device is its small size. The system also includes aluminum profiles, plastic plugs, brackets, holders, fittings, and manifolds.
The principle of operation is to heat the air, which then slowly rises, heating the walls. They radiate energy to other objects, which then release heat into the room. This ensures uniform heating of the entire space of the room. The pillow does not accumulate at the top warm air. With conventional heating, you have to pay for the heat upstairs, but you don’t get to use it.
The effect of the warm flow sticking to the wall is caused by the reduced pressure generated when it flows upward. Due to this, the convective movement of air is weakened and the heat is transferred to the wall, which then distributes it by radiation.
Radiators warm up the cold air entering through the lower slots of the case. It is important that the wall in this place is reliably protected with thermal insulation. Then the heated air exits through the upper slots and transfers heat to the solid surface. Thus, most of the convective heat exchange occurs inside the radiator housing. Radiation is transmitted only to the aluminum housing.
The advantages of the system are as follows:
- Warming up the walls prevents the formation of dampness, which causes the development of fungi and mold.
- Uniform heating of the surrounding space.
- The small size of the plinth saves space in the room.
- The heating system can be main or additional.
- Economical.
- Environmental friendliness. There are no heat flows that raise dust.
- Protection of heat exchangers with a durable housing.
The disadvantage is the high price, but the investment quickly pays off due to its advantages.
You can install the system yourself without any special skills. But here you need to know some features different models. Before buying them, it is important to study all the characteristics that the manufacturer is required to provide. Based on them, the entire system is calculated and designed. The characteristics of the structure, its dimensions and heater power are taken as initial data.
Types of warm baseboards
Just like for warm baseboards, there are water and electric. Regardless of the type, they are hidden under a beautiful decorative box.
The latter is distinguished by its simplicity of design, compactness and ease of use. Disadvantages include high power and the need for powerful wiring. A warm water baseboard can be connected to a heating boiler, but it is slightly different from conventional systems. Both types can be used in combination with heating sources of other operating principles.
The new method does not require high coolant temperature. As a result, energy consumption is reduced. In addition, it is advisable to install temperature regulators in each room. In the nursery it remains elevated, and in adult bedroom it can be reduced by several degrees.
System design
The basis of the device is a heating module - a heat exchanger consisting of brass or aluminum lamellas mounted on 2 copper tubes with an outer diameter of 13 mm. The modules are suspended on brackets and connected to each other in series, and then the supply PVC pipes from the collector are connected to them according to a radial scheme. Setting and control are carried out from the distribution manifold. An aluminum box is fixed on top and installed around the perimeter of the room.
Installation of a warm baseboard system
When a warm water baseboard is installed, PVC pipes from the distribution manifold are first laid, and then the connection points are prepared. Particular care should be taken to ensure correct beam distribution, because after pouring the screed it will be difficult to change anything. All connections are made during the construction process.
The system is installed only after the finishing of the room is completed. The first module is connected using a coupling, and then all elements are mounted in series. In the corners and at the very end, the connection is made using rotating polyethylene tubes. Each heating circuit is limited to a length of 12.5 m. Heating is carried out near the outer walls of the house. Internal walls are also used. Skirting boards are not installed in areas where plumbing fixtures are located, household appliances and bulky furniture. Then pressure testing is carried out, all circuits are balanced and the automation system is adjusted.
Radiators do not have to occupy the entire perimeter of the room, but must be located along the walls. Air enters the heaters from below and exits through the upper slots of the boxes.
How to make a warm water baseboard?
After selecting and calculating a warm water-heated baseboard, installation is carried out in the following sequence:
- Working out a way to connect the system to the boiler and choosing what kind of warm water baseboard will be - an auxiliary or main system.
- Determination of heat loss in all rooms and, based on this, the required power of the installed system.
- Laying pipes from the distribution manifold throughout all rooms to the connection areas.
- Selection of installation locations. An indentation of 15 mm is made from the wall, and 10 mm from the floor. Marking points for drilling holes for dowels. Installation of planks, insulation and brackets on the wall.
- Fastening the baseboard modules level until all are installed.
- Serial connection of heaters to each other and to supply pipes. Their maximum allowed quantity is 17 pcs.
- Supply water under pressure and check the operation of the system for leaks.
- Installation of plugs and covers.
Skirting Termia
The design consists of two copper tubes with mounted lamellas made of brass or aluminum. The Termia warm water baseboard has high thermal conductivity, which makes it possible to use it in heating systems with low temperatures. When heating water to 70 o C thermal power 1 m of module length is 240 W, which corresponds to the characteristic electric heater. When decorative panels of high thermal conductivity are used from aluminum profile onto a warm water baseboard, heat transfer increases and becomes more uniform.
To increase the efficiency of heat transfer, module connections are made with copper tubes, which are passive heat exchangers. They are usually carried out around interior walls Houses. The modules are connected to them using the soldering method.
Automation involves the installation of thermal valves with remote sensors located in the rooms at a level convenient for regulation. Control devices are protected with a powder-polymer coating that is resistant to shock and other mechanical influences.
Self-production
Due to the high cost, many people assemble warm water baseboards with their own hands. Copper or aluminum radiators difficult to do, but copper pipes are good heaters. In this case, the diameter can be increased to 20 mm. 16 mm is more effective.
The lower pipe is placed at a height of 6 cm, and the upper pipe at a height of 15 cm. The width of the plinth should not be more than 3 cm. At the same time, a strip of thin thermal insulation with aluminum foil. A steel or aluminum box is used for protection. A decorative screen can be made from: If it is soldered to the pipes, heat transfer will significantly improve.
An important condition high efficiency the operation of a warm baseboard is the minimum temperature difference in the forward and reverse directions. It is recommended to install an additional circulation pump for such a system.
Water warm baseboard: reviews, photos
- Baseboard heaters support comfortable conditions in the home even in winter.
- In houses with a lot of furniture, it is inconvenient to use warm baseboards. As a result, the furniture heats up, not the room.
- In private houses where there are mini-boiler rooms, the heat generated by baseboard heaters is quite enough. Many people use them with other types of heating.
- Domestic manufacturers produce products at reasonable prices. Imported ones are more expensive, but look much better.
- Many people are satisfied with the safety of using this type of heating, such as a warm water baseboard. Reviews of leaks are extremely rare.
Conclusion
The "water warm plinth" system is one of best solutions when you need to organize a convenient and economical heating. The high price makes it difficult to introduce it in Russia, but new heating devices are gradually being used due to their effectiveness.
Often for design optimal system heating requires the use of heating devices of minimal size. At the same time, their operational efficiency should ensure normal maintenance temperature regime into the room. One way out in this situation may be to use a warm baseboard.
This design consists of small heating devices that are installed at the bottom of the wall.
Despite its relatively small sizes, this type of radiator has a number of important advantages:
- Compactness. It will harmoniously fit into any room due to the presence of external decorative panels of different configurations and colors.
- Uniform heating. Since the structure is installed around the perimeter of the room and the lower part, convection of air flows occurs simultaneously throughout the entire volume.
- Easy to install. To install a warm baseboard, it is enough to provide a coolant supply (water heating) or a connection point to the electrical network (structures with a heating element).
But despite all these advantages, there are a number of significant disadvantages:
- If there is a lot of furniture in the room that stands near the walls, there will be little free space for installing a warm baseboard, and the heating efficiency decreases by an order of magnitude.
- Relatively high price factory models. The vast majority of them are made of copper, which significantly affects their price.
To solve the last issue, you can try to make a warm baseboard yourself.
Design
Structurally, this heating device must consist of several elements.
- The back panel, which is necessary for installing heating elements and protecting the wall from thermal effects.
- A heating element - . Their dimensions are usually 1000*40*160 mm. In this case, the number of heat exchange plates should be maximum.
- External panel with slotted holes for air circulation.
- Decorative side and rotary plugs.
The average power of a factory installation is about 240 W, i.e. for a room with a perimeter of 18 m (20 m²) and an average ceiling height, the maximum power of a warm baseboard will be 4 kW, which is more than enough for effective heating.
However for self-made Such an analogue requires a lot of effort and money, which in the vast majority of cases will exceed the cost of purchasing a factory copper baseboard. The main problems are:
- The optimal power indicator in a copper structure is achieved a large number heat exchange plates. Moreover, their soldering occurs in such a way as to ensure tight contact of the plate with copper tube. This is the only way to achieve effective heat transfer.
- Manufacturing a decorative casing that would ensure normal heating of the air and at the same time be resistant to thermal changes.
Is there a way to do this at home? Alas, the efforts to repeat the design of a warm copper baseboard will not be worthwhile. Let's consider an alternative option.
Alternative
The main task when designing a warm baseboard yourself is to achieve good heating premises with a minimum height and width of the structure.
Since it is impossible to make copper radiators with your own hands, it is recommended to use copper pipes, but without plates. Their diameter varies from 10 to 20 mm. The most effective size is 16 mm.
They are installed along the entire perimeter of the room at a height of 6 cm from the floor level. For better heat transfer, a strip of reflective foil is attached to the wall surface. A steel box can be used as a protective housing. Insulation can be installed inside the resulting structure. As an example, you can see a photo of a homemade warm baseboard.
Effective operation of such a design is possible only if several conditions are met:
- Minimum temperature difference between pipes. In this case, the resulting thermal radiation will be more effectively reflected from the wall surface. To do this, it is advisable to install an individual circular one for the warm baseboard, which will increase the flow rate of the coolant, thereby reducing the temperature difference between the heating pipes.
- If as decorative panel If you use a copper screen, it is best to solder the pipes to it. In this case, the efficiency of the system will increase significantly.
- When used as heating element The heating element must be insulated from the surface of the pipe from the screen, i.e. Unlike the previous recommendation, the pipe should never be welded to a copper panel.
- Width – 3 cm.
- Height – 15 cm.
- Distance to floor – from 6 cm.
Otherwise, everything is determined by the parameters of a specific heating system. For best result Competent calculations by specialists are required.