Floor convectors in the apartment
With the onset of the cold season, the comfortable temperature in the room will depend on the quality of heating equipment. It is especially important to correctly place heating radiators in apartments with a small area. Modern internal floor convectors allow you to visually preserve the area of the rooms, while ensuring high-quality room heating. The radiator does not spoil the design of the apartment, while keeping it warm in winter.
Natural or forced convection
The system located inside the floor has certain limitations on the ability to transfer heat from the carrier to the air masses. Consequently, natural convection requires heating the coolant to the highest possible temperature in order to provide the necessary comfort to the premises. Forced air circulation has its advantages:
- Fast and effective heating of a room, even a large one.
- Moderate heating of the coolant in pipe communications.
- Ability to install smaller number of radiators.
- Dependence of system performance on electricity.
- Possible occurrence of drafts during intense airflow.
Choosing to your apartment floor convector, it is worth considering its capabilities for heating the room. As a rule, the manufacturer indicates approximate data in area. Experts recommend choosing radiators 20% more powerful than the room requires. In this way, you can put less load on the heating boiler or the system as a whole, and you are guaranteed to maintain a comfortable temperature during especially cold weeks of the year.
The best material for radiators
Convectors located in the floor are especially common , can be found in office premises. The systems are perfectly camouflaged and do not stand out against the background of furniture and office equipment, but at the same time cope with the main task. Manufacturers of convectors choose aluminum and steel for radiators:
- iron minimizes the cost of convectors;
- aluminum resists corrosion processes better;
- non-ferrous metal heats up faster from the coolant ;
- steel can withstand different types of physical stress.
Each material has its own additional advantages. Steel heating radiators are almost impossible to distinguish visually from aluminum ones, since they are located inside the floor. The only difference is in the performance characteristics. It is better to install aluminum in an apartment, and steel analogues in office premises. But interchangeability will not lead to bad consequences.