What to choose mats or cable when installing underfloor heating in an ordinary three-room apartment?
Probably everyone who decided to make underfloor heating is wondering what to prefer mats or cable. I mean electric underfloor heating. I am no exception - I’ve shoveled a bunch of different sites, but I can’t make the final choice. Around write about one continuous merits of both the first option, and the second. To be honest, I'm completely confused. Help me make a choice - I have a three-room apartment on the top floor of a 3-storey building.
In fact, the answer to your question can be found very easily. It is important to understand what you want from a “warm floor” system. Will it be operated as primary heating or additional?
Heating mats
Read more carefully the technical specifications of the film underfloor heating. You will definitely find there that with all its merits, this system will not be so effective that it will heat very cold rooms. Film heating is more of an additional comfort in your apartment. And at the same time, you probably noticed that a film underfloor heating is a more expensive option than a cable system.
Among the advantages of heating mats are worth noting:
- Easy installation.
- Quick heating of the floor surface.
- Thickness 3-4 mm.
Heating cable
With a warm floor, created on the basis of a heating cable, the opposite is true. Her device will cost less. You yourself can affect its effectiveness, because the step of laying the curls of the cable can be calculated in accordance with certain requests. And practical experience shows that, subject to all technological aspects specified by the manufacturer of electric cable underfloor heating, it will successfully heat even a very cold room. It should be noted that the cable will need to be filled with a solution of at least 3 cm. This factor affects the duration of heating the floor surface. However, not everyone can handle the device of this system.
In principle, if you evaluate both systems by such criteria, then one option will disappear by itself. And with a further choice of the “warm floor” system, we recommend that you purchase products only from trusted brands.
