Heating a frame house - fire, water and ... air

The technology of frame construction allows to build houses with a large margin of safety. The internal space is heated using familiar systems, and only in some cases there are nuances depending on the wall construction. In general, to create a warm and cozy atmosphere in a frame house, even in extreme cold, is not difficult.

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What frame house is different from, for example, brick? According to the technology, a “skeleton” is first erected - a frame that “overgrows” with several sound, moisture and heat insulating layers. The wall becomes like a multi-layered sandwich.

Layers are:

• from expanded polystyrene;
• polyurethane foam;
• mineral wool;
• stone wool;
• vapor barrier film;
• various decorative facing materials.

If the heating in a frame house works well, then ventilation and humidity remain a problem. Multilayer walls have poor thermal conductivity or, in other words, the heat inside the house remains in it.

The inner space is hermetically packed in a state-of-the-art impermeable shell. The frame house, in contrast to the brick counterpart, will not be rapidly freezing, and the heating saving reaches 30%!

Electric heating

The heating system is simple to install, saves usable space, because there are no pipes and radiators. A huge disadvantage is the cost of electricity and a direct dependence on the presence of voltage in the network.

Infrared beautiful

The best option from this series, embodied the minimum cost (if the price is $ 40 per 1m² this is a bit) and high comfort will be infrared film floors, which are a film with strips of carbon paste.

They radiate heat when current passes through them and evenly heat the opaque surfaces with infrared rays, saving energy, which in other cases is spent on convection and heating of air. Mounted film with his own hands under the coating of laminate, boards, carpet, dry and tile tiles with special glue. Unfortunately, heaters do not humidify or condition the air.

The option of infrared heating on top is available with an optimal ceiling height of at least 2.7 m. This is because the infrared heater should be located no more than half a meter from the head. If there are high people in the family, it will be safe for them.

Note! You can replace the infrared electric heated floors, which act on the same principle. But the floor will be heated, and the higher the air, the cooler it will be. And for the heating fee will be higher.

The gap between the convector and the fan

Heating in a frame house with the help of electric convectors will require several devices - either one powerful per floor or low-power in each room. They work silently and save oxygen. The thermostat sets the desired temperature, providing constant heat, albeit overshadowed by electricity bills.

Tangible disadvantages are:

• natural circulation;
• do not clear the air;
• do not moisturize;
• do not condition.

Heat fans, perhaps the most primitive units of the entire electric series.

And although they are cheap, they do not need to be supervised, since it is enough to simply set the desired heating mode, they have a number of serious drawbacks:

• perceptible noise;
• a hot spiral burns oxygen;
• burning dust smells unpleasant;
• short term "life."

Therefore, the fans are good as a temporary measure for work in a cold room.

Warm from water

Radiators will provide warm indoor air with cold floors, for example, 30 ° C at the level of the head and 12 in the area of ​​slippers. This is a common picture, inherent in any home / apartment. The near-radiator zone and the wall are intensively warming, but on the whole a warm atmosphere is created.

It is undesirable to hide the risers and pipes in the walls due to possible leakage, and to place them behind the plinths.

Water heating will not be able to provide:

• exactly set temperature;
• low heat loss;
• humidification, cleaning and ventilation.

The life-affirming point is the instruction for installation of the system, leading pipes to radiators, etc., which remains unchanged when installed in a frame house. Regardless of the chosen energy source, the walls and floor of the boiler room must be isolated from wooden surfaces that are not designed for high temperatures.

Note! The sections of the wall where the mounted radiators will be located and the boiler must be additionally reinforced with brick inlays.

Air heating

Wonderful type of heating, giving a total of:

• heat;
• ventilation;
• air purification;
• air conditioning, with the condition of installation of the channel conditioner;
• humidification (one channel humidifier is enough for the whole house);
• accuracy of the set temperature;
• the pleasure of electronic control.

The cost of the air heating system with all the gadgets for homes up to 300 m² will be immeasurably lower than water. And the fee for the operation of this beauty will be 1.5 times cheaper than for warm floors.

Well forgotten old

What if the house is stuffed with electric heaters, and the snow drifts broke off all the wires?

The situation can be saved by an ordinary wood-burning stove or buleryan, which has such advantages as:

• prolonged heat transfer from the brick surface;
• 8-hour burning boulery after one tab, which is enough for the whole night;
• as an alternative, such heating in the frame domain will require huge stocks of firewood, the more it will not work to warm up the whole house.

A Russian stove or fireplace is not a cheap pleasure, the structures require a strong foundation, because A lot of weight, and take up a lot of space. When dreaming of a fireplace, remember that it heats while the wood is burning and the lion's share of heat flies into the chimney. So a romantic evening on the skin of a bear by an open fire is a luxury out of budget.

In conclusion

Attention was not paid to oil heaters due to their complete uselessness in such an important matter as heating. Such devices are good only in the immediate vicinity of freezing. And heat pumps with their efficiency are so expensive that it is unlikely they will be used by a person with an income even above average.

Solar panels deserve attention, especially since they are constantly being improved and cheaper. From the category of fiction, they firmly entered into use. In combination with air heating, the issue of saving will be successfully resolved.

Independently equip warm infrared floors will be easier by viewing the video in this article.