Carbon crystal floor heating is also a kind of electric heating, and the most cost-effective before the target is carbon fiber heating cable electric floor heating.
In the case that most of us in the southern region do not know much about floor heating, it is indeed a little difficult to make a choice between water and electric floor heating. First of all, it is necessary to have an understanding of the composition of water floor heating and electric floor heating. I will make a brief summary here: the composition of water floor heating mainly includes boilers, manifold collectors, ground water pipes, thermostats and connecting accessories and auxiliary materials 6 parts; The composition of electric floor heating consists of only 3 parts: heating cable, thermostat and auxiliary materials. Then we compare from four aspects: installation cost, use cost, later replacement expenditure and respective advantages and disadvantages.
Start by comparing installation costs. How to compare? It's very simple, take your own room type map to the heating companies around the world to make a detailed quotation.
Second, compare the cost of use. This is complicated and not as clear as the installation cost. The main cost of water floor heating is gas, not water. If you compare from the law of conservation of energy, natural gas for water and floor heating is lower than electric floor heating; If piped gas is used for water and floor heating, it is equivalent to electric floor heating; If you use pipeline liquefied gas for water floor heating, it is more expensive than electric floor heating; If you use bottled gas for water and floor heating, it is best not to do it, otherwise it will not only be expensive but also may have to change the bottle every day. In real use, it is difficult to draw a firm conclusion due to the insulation, usage, etc. of the house. Even if the conclusion is reached when the house, use, etc. are completely consistent, it is very limited. Because although the power consumption can be determined, but the gas consumption is not determined, which is inseparable from the quality of the boiler, different boiler gas consumption is different. In addition, electricity prices and gas prices are different in different regions. And the current electricity price, gas price and future electricity price, gas price, is different, floor heating can be used for 50 years, even if it is used for 2-30 years, it must also consider the long term.
Compare the late replacement expenses again. We know the respective components of water floor heating and electric floor heating. The replacement of water floor heating includes boiler (life 12-15 years), boiler internal parts, manifold (6-8 years) and other connection accessories, etc., these replacement costs will exceed 2-3 times the initial installation cost. The replacement of electric floor heating is only a thermostat, and water floor heating is also available, so there is no need to compare, compared to the combination of similar items. The above are normal use, excluding maintenance, repair, etc.
Fourth, compare the advantages and disadvantages of each. The advantage of water floor heating is that it can provide domestic hot water. The disadvantage is that the boiler needs maintenance, descaling, the surface water pipes need to be cleaned, etc., which all cost money. The disadvantage of electric floor heating is that it cannot provide domestic hot water. The advantage is that no maintenance is required. In addition, from the maintenance probability to compare, first of all, the ground water pipe of water and floor heating and the heating cable of electric floor heating comparison, in the same commitment to 10 years, use 50 years, we will not compare, just as similar items combined, if you want to compare, you can imagine which water pipe and cable is easy to break. There are also thermostats, which is not comparable. Water and floor heating has a few more components, that is, more probability of maintenance. Its boiler is the core component of water floor heating, is a precision instrument, the probability of maintenance is also the largest, and the expenditure is also the largest. Therefore, the maintenance probability of water floor heating is much greater than that of electric floor heating.
From the above comparison, it is clear that the advantages of electric floor heating are much greater than that of water floor heating. Yes, and that's exactly it, I'm bullish on electric floor heating. In fact, the real advantage of water floor heating is that like the central heating in the north, both the installation cost and the use cost are less than electric floor heating. Its low installation cost should be easy to understand, why is the cost of use also low? Because the hot water for central heating is supplied by the boiler room (basically coal) of the community or the waste heat of the thermal power plant. But in our southern region, it is divided into households, and the family uses its own boiler to boil water, and it uses gas, so the cost of use is not low. So why is there more water and floor heating in the south? This is that we do not yet understand floor heating, and are influenced by the north. Even the dwindling radiators in the north came to our south. The water temperature required for the radiator should reach 75-85 degrees, while floor heating only needs 35-45 degrees, which is a product that consumes energy and does not have the comfort of floor heating. But of course it's more comfortable than air conditioning.
Finally, two strange but existing problems. First, does water floor heating heat up faster than electric floor heating? I want to say that it takes time for the hot water of water floor heating to be burned out of the boiler, and then flow in the tube to circulate, and the heating cable is directly heated after being energized, and the speed of the current will be slower than the water flow? In fact, this speed is not important, the floor heating is turned on 24 hours, turned off and turned on, the temperature is relatively slow. Second, water floor heating will moist the air, electric floor heating will dry the air? I want to say that if water floor heating can moisten the air, then the floor will not suffer, the floor tiles will not sweat, who dares to use water floor heating? It's a bit of a hopeful look. In fact, when the floor heating is turned on 18-20 degrees, whether it is water or electricity, the temperature of the ground is only about 21-24 degrees, and it is impossible to produce dry air. And if you use floor tiles, sprinkle some water on it, and it will evaporate quickly, and this evaporation is not like air conditioners, where the water is pumped away and can moisten the air.
I hope that the above comparison can give you an idea, how to compare, choose the floor heating you need.
