Friends in the north always need to install floor heating when decorating their houses. There are many types of floor heating now, so which type of floor heating should you choose to put in? Is dry floor heating better or wet floor heating better? Many novices probably don’t know how to put in which floor heating, right? Let’s learn about it today!
1, dry floor heating
The biggest feature of dry floor heating is that it does not require backfill layer during installation, which reduces the backfill layer height. It can also be called ultra-thin floor heating.
2. Wet floor heating
Wet floor heating is the most common way to install floor heating. During the installation process, concrete needs to be used to surround the floor heating pipes layer by layer, and then flooring is laid on this basis.
wet plumbing is to first lay 2cm insulation layer, then lay reflective film , water pipe, then cover with steel wire mesh, backfilling, backfilling layer is about 3cm, and the thickness of the entire floor heating layer is 5cm. Wet electric heating can be thinner, about 4cm.
dry type is thinner, and the water pipe or wire is embedded in prefabricated board . The material of the prefabricated board and the insulation layer is similar, so there is no need to add an insulation layer underneath. The prefabricated boards are not backfilled, so the entire floor heating layer is the thickness of the prefabricated boards, and some prefabricated boards are only 3cm thick. However, dry floor heating requires higher floor flatness and needs to be leveled like wooden floors.
Dry floor heating does not require complicated backfill technology, it is easy to install and can shorten the construction period. However, dry floor heating does not have the conditions to store heat, especially when the power is out of the house, the temperature will drop rapidly and the thermal inertia will be poor.
Wet floor heating can lay floor tiles and dry floor heating can only lay floor tiles. Compared with the more traditional wet floor heating, the concept of dry floor heating is still relatively avant-garde. Although the installation process is simpler, the technology and materials cost are high; and dry floor heating cannot be used in the bathroom and kitchen, otherwise water seepage is likely to occur.
In terms of cost, dry type is higher than wet floor heating. Moreover, wet floor heating technology has matured, and with the price advantage, people still like to use wet floor heating.
