The Importance of Accurate Design
Before a floor heating system can be installed into any structure there are a number of essential tasks that will have to be carried out. A complete project management timeline is here, below is a summary of the design aspect
The first of these tasks is to evaluate the rate of heat loss from the structure, this is a fairly simple set of calculations that are completed using known and measured parameters.
Surprisingly very few companies do this, and consequently find themselves specifying a floor heating system for a building without knowing what the system has to cope with.
The second task is to take the heat losses for each room or area and determine the amount of floor pipe required to address these losses.
If the heat losses are simply assumed then it follows that the amount of pipe must also be assumed.
...A Holistic Approach.
A third and very important task is to look at the end users requirements and determine from the given information what the control system should consist of, there may be for instance, floor heating, radiator heating and a hot water store all operating from the one boiler. Controls must be able to interact with each other and provide time and temperature control for all the elements of the complete system.
It does not make sense to make assumptions with regards to floor heating, here is a heating system that is buried or embedded in the fabric of the building, every method available should be employed to ensure that it is as accurate as possible.
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