Boom! And welcome to today’s video . I’m out on a job today. This is a project that we’re doing, we have allowed 7 hours for the bit we’ve been constructing. The result is going to be fun! And, I’m going to provide you a peek of it all and run through today everything about underfloor heating, all right?
So, as you might see, around us you got senatex on the walls we’re in fact in the basement here, about 3 and a half metres underground, which in a way scares me. So let’s gets started and begin at number 1. The first thing we will do is to take a look at the fundamental elements of an underfloor heater. Boom! – [Guy In Hoodie]
So, to start with as you can see, we’ve got ecotherm insulation laid all over. 100 millimetre Ecotherm insulation has been laid here. Next, exactly what we do is, we in fact lay out our underfloor heating coils in a manner like this. It is really, extremely simple.
So you have your plastic pipelines, every one of them has to be stapled down by a little staple very much like so. And today we’re going to be putting ina ll the pipe across the whole floor, we have a really great piece of work to do here. That’s just what you need to see us doing. This way it makes a great little plan for you to watch and find out about.
Actually it’s simple to do. Particularly if you hold it up neatly, and lay it like that.
Unfortunately, the darkness of this location is not helping. So there we go, that’s a whole lot better. So now, you can see exactly what the pipe looks like at this manifold here.
We have a thermostatic controller on there and our pump that drives water through our manifold and after that back to our return pipe. After the system has been finished and is working, what we’ve provided is laid over the whole floor area, to essentially stabilise the building’s system like you would if you had a storage heater. The pipe routes must be well balanced, if they’re not well balanced, water will rather miss out some parts of the pipe system and show up through here, and not be part of the circulation. We must decrease this very first loop, then run it back once again, and not be required to pass it around these 2 loops here.
As you can see, we’ve got a number of air vents on here. We’ll be utilising those in the future to purge the system. And, likewise, we’ve got our inner outlets for our boiler here, and here.
As soon as we’ve got the underfloor heating down over there, we’ve got the guys with screws ready. They’re going to screw a 75 millimetre screw around the exterior.
Now, the concept is, that you utilise all these pipelines that are zig-zagging around with a lot of flowing, warm water through them. That way you warm the whole depth of concrete up. This mass of concrete will then remain warm through the day, and it provides a lot of warmth to keep ambient temperature level in the building pleasantly warm.
That way we ensure that there are no cold areas in the home or anything when fitted with underfloor hot water heating . However the important things is, you do not want to be losing that heat into the wall or down into the flooring. So, we insulate the structure first, below the underfloor heating coils to prevent the heat escaping
Now we do not need to fret about the flooring due to the fact that we’ve currently got senetex down. However, the important things is, around the wall we do not want to lose heat. So, exactly what we do is, we get this beautiful sticky insulation. These are sticky backed, and we run that using the method recommended by the manufacturer, around the wall. here and there it is shaped around the space to fit. After that we run it around the space, and essentially that insulates the whole space from leaking its heat into the walls.
So, as soon as you’ve got all that done, you check for any gaps by walking around and then you’re basically all-set to go. How’s that, and we’ve taken a look at the plan of actions needed to install underfloor heating.
You need about 120 metres of this pipe, or whatever the specifying tube is for that particular underfloor heated space. Next we take a look at our plan, and after that you begin laying it out in accordance with your pipe layout plan.
Laying this pipe on you own, can be a very hard task. So, I enjoy it when there is help from another underfloor heating installation assistant.
But, in this project we lost-out on laying it over there. This can occur typically on sites where they unexpectedly make late changes to the plans. In this case they decided to put a spiral staircase here, and chose to inform me last. Otherwise, I would have put my pipes under it and then drilled through them.
I guess most people understand exactly what it’s like, when individuals alter the goalposts, and don’t communicate what they are doing.
I’ve a little box of staples loaded, so we are all set to begin the work. I’m going to put my earphones in my ears, and I’ll speak to you again, later on!
Hold tight. (Wires rustle.) – Right then, you can see that’s a total headache to do. We’ve got our circulation coming out of here, we’ve got our coil here, it is also necessary to provide ourselves with a little back of slack.
(metal sound as coils are cut) – And we’ve got a little piece here for the silver to go on. (metal sound as tools are utilised) – So there’s our manifold there. Let’s return to the shed and I’ll draw you a little a diagram so you appreciate how these underfloor heating coils really work. See you in a sec! Woah!
I wager you’re questioning exactly what this guy is performing, while wearing a Christmas jumper! Right, so in the grand plan of things, these systems have the typical boiler with a pump.
Essentially, you’ve got what is like a zone within the heating unit. So, lets make it clear that we’ve got our pump installed with a 2-port valve, opening into our underfloor heating coil from our warm water tank, with a return returning to the boiler. Then we have, what is called a “zone valve” to control the heat which goes to the radiators upstairs. The pipes in your home will also head out to the boiler like that.
And after that, we have another zone that has its own valve and its own little jockey pump which will make water stream around the underfloor heater. That though is going to be the subject of another video (Part 2) in which we’re going to discuss this. This will be described in the next (Part 2) video.
Right, so underfloor heating does not simply provide extremely warm water from the boiler, and run it through the underfloor coil. That’s the very first thing you need to understand. They system uses a thing called a thermostatic blending valve. Okay?
So let’s take a look at the standard elements of an underfloor heating unit. Now, these can be various for various type of manifolds or various producers, however this is the typical method of doing it. Alright? So, we’ll have our circulation, originating from the boiler, and after that, the hot water will enter into our manifold here Heat is distributed by the various pipelines going off to the various coils, which I’ll speak with you about in a second or two.
Then, they walk around the space, and the coil and they return to consider these various methods thus.
Now this return water, which is cooler since it’s released its heat into the underfloor, can either do 1 of 2 things.
It can go directly back to the boiler, and that’s fine. Which suggests exactly what’s taking place is where you’re boiling hot water can be found, and cooler water goes directly back out to be heated up in the boiler or heat exchanger.
Or, as the temperature level of the underfloor heating water turns up, it can be diverted up here, into our pump, or jockey pump, and after that back into the underfloor heater.
Now, the concept of this is that you now have scalding hot to very warm water. Nevertheless, you’ve simply begun to fire your heating unit up, all right? You’ve got really plenty of warm water which be found in Shrewsbury. Warm water, most likely about 60 degrees, entering into your underfloor heater, is ideal. The water flows around the coil under the flooring, then back up and directly off to the boiler to be reheated.
This loop is restored continually by the running pump. As the system gets up to temperature level, if you’ve got screeded under flooring, you need, a great deal of the time the for temperature level to be about 45 degrees, or perhaps a bit higher than that.
So as the underfloor heating temperature level increases, and the floor slab begins to get warm, the underfloor itself gets warm. Rather than requiring brand-new warm water to come into the system and be warmed up, and the problem of sending it back when by that method, it returns its cold water up here. Once up here, it simply begins to flow around here, and nearly becomes its own system.
Now the benefits of that are primarily that you have an automatic set temperature level for your underfloor heating unit. That’s a truly, great thing but we have not finished. There are a few other parts that you need to take a look at, when you’re checking out an underfloor heating unit.
First of all, the majority of them have an AAV on the circulation manifold, and on the return manifold. Keep in mind, these do not need to be done in this manner around.
A lot typically, the parts on underfloor heating unit manifold can be found by various police methods. So, you have an AAV on each side so you can vent it out, and after that, on either of these 2, you have a stabilising which valve heads along here, then, you’ll have your real valve actuators fine?
The valve actuator communicates electronically with the thermostat in the room space all right? That way we are aiming to heat with the underfloor heating unit, in future.
In some cases, you can have a manifold like this, that does 2 spaces, so say that you agree that we’ve got 2 spaces like that there. Fine?
You’ve got a thermostat for 1 here, and a thermostat for 1 there, if this one requires heat, it’ll in fact raise this actuator here and raise the valve up and begin permitting circulation through which suggests warm water can come through into the circulation manifold and enter that space and begin warming it up. However this one isn’t really calling for heat, for that reason these stay shut which means that the space there, does not get warm.
Essentially, it’s like a really carefully regulated zone. Stabilizing knobs on top generally work much like stabilizing any heating unit.
If you had all these open, say that the sensors were all requiring hot water, your circulation would be available in here. But, it’s most likely to decrease at this very first port at which very first loop flows away and then flows back, once again. A great deal of the time, you’ll encounter a little domestic residential or commercial property where they’ve got, for example, a manifold that is simply a container pipe loaded with zones Get that? Fine? That does not imply that simply triggering will help. We’ve got 4 pipelines all found, considering the “in” and the “out”, it implies that this is providing 4 jetting stages for 4 pipes.
, to really disperse an even temperature level.
For instance, say that we’ve got a huge space. Forget this, it’s absolutely nothing to do with it, we’ve got a huge space like this, and if you simply had one coil with hot water flowing around it, by the time it got to here, it ‘d be freezing cold and it would need the pump to run permanently for inside the entire flooring to warm up.
So, you have your one coil walking around it here, then returning. Then you have another coil walking around it here and after that returning, then another coil walking around it here and after that returning. Which implies then that it warms up the flooring a lot more uniformly, and a lot quicker. Which is generally, a really, extremely quick summary about how underfloor heating manifolds work. This is not going to be the only article we do on underfloor heating. So, please register for our videos and you’ll get updates instantly through YouTube about when those videos show up.
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