Today, electric floors are used as the main heating and as an additional system with a lack of main heat. This article will consider the pros and cons of warm sexes.
Advantages of the electric floor
Convenient heat distribution throughout the room. When using a warm floor, as the main heating system, the heat is maintained automatically in all rooms, and when using floors, as an additional heating, heat will prevail in a particular area.
Less inertiality than in water floors. This suggests that the temperature in the room will heat up faster.
Long service life and naturalness of the material used. Experts say that electric warm floors will last more than 50 years.
Electric heating can be laid on top of the old coating. Usually, this can be seen in the kitchen, in the bathroom and toilet. After all, it is here that the floor is covered with tiles. Thanks to the use of a warm layer, the floors become higher by 1, 5 centimeters.
When there is a need to repair electric floors, you do not need to remove the entire coating. When using the necessary equipment, you can immediately calculate the place where the system is damaged. Update the cable will turn out to be special couplings. If the cable is damaged, then a person from a shock will protect the device that instantly turns off any voltage.
The disadvantages of the warm floor
Great electricity consumption. This is very noticeable when the warm floor is used around the entire perimeter of the apartment.
Due to the high energy costs, the main system using electric floors cannot be used in a house with an old layout. After all, there the power supply was calculated on old norms, so you can use the floors only as local heating. But even in this case, it is necessary to ensure that there is no overload of the power cable.
Magnetic field that does not affect a person. This factor is in doubt, but is not yet completely excluded. A lot of specialists prove that tension and induction do not exceed the permissible values.
Uneven heat flow among some systems. In this regard, there may be problems with the floor covering, which is made of laminate or parquet. To get around this, you should carefully follow the instructions when mounting an electric floor and not change the laid depth of the cable laying.
