How to make your home warmer without a heater. The apartment is cold - what to do? Where to go if it's cold in the apartment How to make the room warmer

Our future client asked the question: "How to make an apartment warmer?" To answer it, I had to remember the old but effective ways. They helped him. Now it's your turn to apply them.

If it is a door, then the cracks are closed polyurethane foam or woolen cord. The same is done with windows if they are normal. If plastic, then they are airtight - provided that they are not the most cheap option.

The cracks in the corners cannot be found with ordinary eyes. It is necessary to contact the specialists who will conduct a thermal imaging study. The service costs 4-6 thousand rubles in Moscow and about 3 thousand in the Moscow region.

Many consider them to be dust collectors. But at the same time, they close the gaps in the floor and increase the thermal insulation. Great optionwhen it is not possible to stretch the "warm floor" system.

4. Place something large next to the wall facing the street

If you remember the times of the USSR, then carpets were hung on such walls. If you don't like this option, put a closet or other large furniture.

5. Partially cover the ventilation holes

If rooms (other than the bathroom and kitchen) have vents, stick paper over them to leave a small hole. Then the air circulation will slow down, due to which the more warmth... Do not do this in the bathroom and in the kitchen, because these are places high humidity... If moisture is not removed from there, then mold will appear.

6. Put two doors at the entrance

The best option: outside - metal, inside - wooden. If it is not realistic to put two doors, then seal the cracks with polyurethane foam.

7. Place fans blowing along the battery

Thus, the temperature in the room will rise by 3-5 degrees. Plus the heat will spread evenly. If you are using heaters that do not have a fan, do the same.

8. Install a heat-reflecting material behind the radiators

How to make it yourself, read the article "Insulate an apartment and save 3-10 thousand rubles on electricity." In doing so, keep in mind that there should be a distance of at least 1.5 centimeters between the reflector and the radiator. If this is not the case, then air circulation will be disrupted, due to which the desired effect will not work.

Now you know how to make an apartment warm. And if you need to make repairs in winter periodthen contact us. We promise - the result will be the way you want it, while next winter you will definitely not freeze.

I have repeatedly heard from the Customer the question: "Which radiator heats better?" I ask him: “What does“ heats better ”mean? And I get very different answers: gives off more heat per unit of time; heats the room faster; cools longer. The most common answer: "heats better" - it heats up so that the house is not cold. Wonderful! Let us choose such a heating device for you. And to be beautiful and inexpensive :)

In this article, we will choose for you radiators, warm floors, convectors, i.e. those heating devices (OP) that are installed in each room and it is in this particular room that maintain a comfortable temperature.

The choice of such devices is very wide today, even if we consider only the main types:

1. Cast iron, steel, aluminum radiators;
2. Underfloor heating, water or electric;
3. Floor and floor convectors;
4. Heated towel rails;

But there are also various exclusive solutions (heating plinth, warm walls, radiator ladder, etc.) ...

Before rushing into this pool of information, let's first decide what is important when choosing an OP. What you need to pay attention to and what can be neglected.

At first glance, it seems that the main criterion for choosing an OP will be its heat transfer (the amount of heat that the device gives off per unit time). This is the value that determines which device "heats better". But in reality, everything turns out to be completely different ...

A bit of theory: Your home loses heat in cold weather. This is called heat loss. The lower the outside temperature, the greater the difference in temperature outside and inside the house. The greater the difference, the more more house loses heat. And the more heat loss.

The task of the heater is, by heating up and transferring heat to the room, to compensate for heat loss in this room. If the heat transfer of the OP is insufficient (it is incorrectly selected, the amount of heat transfer is less than the heat loss), then the temperature in the room will drop below the required one and become cold.

Then our task becomes to choose such a heating device, the heat transfer of which will be greater or, in severe frost, is equal to the heat loss of the room. And we can find such a device of ANY TYPE! For example, the heat loss of one of the rooms in your house is 1000 W. This means that an aluminum Nova Florida radiator of 9 ribs (heat transfer 1035 W) must be installed in this room. Or steel radiator Kermy FKO 220507W2 (1012W). Or roll out 75 meters of PE-MDXc Ф16 pipes in case of installation in a heated floor room (1050 W). Or ... many more examples can be cited. I repeat: we can pick up the OP required power ANY TYPE. And these devices will "warm" in the same way.

To summarize the above: there is no need to look for a device with the highest heat transfer, any device will provide you with the necessary heat output... It is important to choose the right device.

“What, then, should you pay attention to when choosing a heating device, if not on its specifications?! " - you ask. I answer: you need to pay attention to four criteria.

First, it is - a typeheater.

Not every device can be installed in your particular room. For example, in some room of the house you decided to make huge windows up to the floor. Or - a balcony door. How to heat this room? Which heater should be installed?

Naturally, you can't put a radiator under such a window. You can put it side by side, but then the cold will spread across the floor of the room. You can make a warm floor in the room and then the cold will not spread across the floor. But there will remain the problem of moisture condensation on the glass ("sweating"), which the warm floor will not cope with ... Thus. you still have the only correctly working version of the heating device - floor convectors. And, although the option is expensive (in relation to other OP options), there is no alternative to it in this situation. Either install floor convectors, or ditch floor-to-ceiling windows.

So, the first thing to do (by yourself or with a heating specialist) is to mentally walk through all the rooms of your house and determine the types for each of the rooms heating appliancesthat can be installed in this room. Then proceed to the next criterion.

The second criterion to pay attention to is - price.

I do not mean the absolute price, but the relative one. No need to compare two radiators different sizes and choose the one that is cheaper. No. You need to calculate what the heating of a single room will result in when heating it different types OP.

For example, in your house there is a room of 12 sq. with heat losses of 1000 W. And the architecture of this room allows you to install any devices there: radiators, heated floors or floor convectors. Let's make a comparison table like this:

- the radiator is installed under the window to perform three functions: to heat the room; cut off the cold air "flowing" from the window to the floor; prevent windows from fogging up.

- objectively, the figure will be higher, since the presence of a water-heated floor will complicate and, accordingly, make the boiler room more expensive.

Naturally, the price, in addition to the type of device, will greatly depend on its quality(third criterion). For example an edge aluminum radiator can be purchased at a price of 7 to 14 euros, a steel Kermy radiator (Germany) is more expensive than a similar steel radiator Lideya (Belarus) by an average of 50%, etc. Naturally, these are things of different quality.

Which quality to choose is your decision. I wrote already in the article "How to choose a gas boiler" my method of choosing a quality level. Follow the link, read it, you might find this technique useful ().

Further, knowing what devices can be installed in your house, and knowing how much it costs (for example, that a warm floor is 2-2.5 times more expensive than radiator heating), you can go to the last criterion - design.

I'm talking about aesthetics here. It is clear that the device should be attractive to you, because it is a detail of the interior of your house. Or, if the device is not attractive, it should be hidden so that your aesthetic feelings are not affected! :)

Let's summarize what has been said. I see the algorithm for choosing heating devices as follows:

1. we determine its heat loss for each room;
2. we determine the types of OP that can be installed in each room;
3. draw up a table of relative prices (adjusting for quality);
4. taking into account the price and design of the OP, we make the final choice of the device for each room.

And one more important point : how will you control the temperature in the room?

There are two options: manual or automatic. Manual adjustment assumes that if it gets hot or cold, you go to the radiator and manually change its temperature by turning the radiator valve. With automatic regulation, you set the comfortable temperature on the regulator (thermostatic head, room sensor), and then the automation monitors its maintenance. The version with automatic equipment for radiator heating is more expensive than the manual one by at least 15 euros for each radiator. For other types of OP this difference is even higher. But I consider this rise in price to be very justified. Because:

1. You save energy (gas, firewood, electricity). Any extraneous heat source that appears in the room will be taken into account by the automation and the radiators will heat (and consume energy) less by its value. Such sources: included kitchen stove, a lighted fireplace, the sun shining through the window. Even a company of 5 people in a room, this is plus 500 W :)
2. You are not distracted. Those. do not go around the house and do not turn on the radiator valves with every temperature change;
3. Your home is insured against freezing. History: one person had manual radiators installed throughout the house. In the boiler room, which was located in the basement, such a radiator was also installed. And, if in the house a person still sometimes regulated the temperature of the radiators, then he rarely entered the basement. What for? What's the difference, what is the temperature there: + 15 ° С or + 3 ° С? There are no people there either. The main thing is that it does not fall below zero, and so - the lower the better. And everything was fine until the moment when the temperature at night fell sharply from -3 ° C to -21 ° C. The half-open radiator failed and the boiler room froze. The boiler burst, the pumps and pipes burst ... Damage - 2800 euros ...

The case, of course, is not typical. And the choice of temperature control is your choice. I outlined my vision of the situation and my recommendations. You can read more about temperature control automation in the article "Automation in a private house control system".

Best regards, Boris Smolyak (Director of Svoy Dom LLC)

Our suggestions

It is the selection of heating devices that I can make for you. Best of all - at a personal meeting in our office, when I have a plan of your house in front of my eyes, and you - equipment that you can see and touch. Call, we will make an appointment. It's free, but I think it will be useful for you. At a minimum, you will know the heating options for your home and be able to make a smarter choice.

Or, if you don't want to come, follow the link "free calculation of the heating system". You will need to answer a few questions on the survey and send me the plan of the house. I will prepare and send you my proposals by e-mail.

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If the radiator is installed on outside wall, then it heats the street (if not done very good thermal insulation). In Soviet antiquity, I was struck by a winter photograph with a "thermal imager" outside apartment building: the brightest spots (where the hottest) are windows, under windows, near windows.

As you know, the greater the temperature difference between solid body (here - the wall of the house, the window) and gas (outside air), the greater the heat transfer (heat loss). Moreover, the dependence of temperature - heat loss is by no means linear, convection affects, the movement of heated air upward.

The idea of \u200b\u200binstalling a radiator under a window would seem ... A good idea, a heat curtain should form. However, they forgot (and still forget) about heating the wall behind the radiator.

So, it is normal when it is more than three days outside -25 (Celsius), and in the room +25, then the surface of the wall may have a temperature of +12 ... + 15. Depends on construction and materials.

Behind the battery, the wall heats up to +40 ... + 55. Again, it depends - how well the air circulates behind the radiator, etc.

So, the usual situation: (in brackets - the temperature difference between the outer-inner surface of the wall)
- Square outer wall "behind" the radiator - 1.8 () square meters - the surrounding area is also heating up! - (70 degrees)
The area of \u200b\u200bthe outer wall "not behind" the radiator - 4 square meters (40 deg.)
Window area - 1.2 sq.m.

I dare to assure that through the intensely heated wall behind the heating radiator almost as much goes out into the street as through the rest of the wall.

In addition, in many homes, the radiators are located in a niche, the wall is thinner near the radiators. For beauty, or what? And the distance from the wall to the radiator is only three centimeters.

And if the room is cold, +16?
So, you can raise the air temperature in the room by 2-3 degrees with elementary thermal insulation by hastily... There is a big difference in "comfort", in the air in the room +16 or +18.

I did this "trick" in the stalinka (brick apartment house with "high ceilings", early 1950s), in an office.

The thermal insulation behind the battery consisted of "what came to hand": white corrugated cardboard from big box and aluminum (only metal!) kitchen foil.

Glory to the lazy plumbers, they did not install new cast iron batteries during the repair "as it should", in the niches they defended from the wall as much as 7 centimeters. However, under the windowsill, a charming gap of almost half a centimeter and dimensionless depth was found. I caulked it with strips of packing foamed polyethylene, or something.

3 blanks of cardboard according to the dimensions of the niche and between the hooks of the radiator fastening pasted over with foil "on strips" of universal silicone glue.

The most disgusting thing is to glue this cardboard with foil behind the battery. Closely. I stuck (smeared) on the dots of silicone and pressed the "foil cardboard" to the wall with spacers made of cardboard scraps. I removed them only the next day. Didn't fall off.

The room thermometer on the wall showed two degrees more the next morning, although it was still colder outside.

Warning: if the insulation plugs up, leaves an air passage of less than 2 centimeters for air circulation behind the radiator, then the heating may become worse. All that remains is to sculpt the foil onto the wall.

P.S.
How to make it warmer? You just need to heat the thermometer.

P.P.S. What was all this insulating fuss about? Wasn't it easier to turn on the electric heater? They, oily, were simply not enough for all the rooms. The power of the wiring was also not enough.

With the onset of the heating season, many residents of apartment buildings experience serious discomfort and ask the question: why is the apartment cold and how to make the apartment warm.

There can be many reasons for a cool temperature in a home. This is insufficient heat supply and some kind of construction defects that reduce the tightness of the premises and allow cold air to enter from outside.

Building design, heating system or thermal insulation problems

Very often worn out heating systems are the cause of discomfort. In many socialist buildings, heat is supplied through outdated equipment, which long time not repaired or replaced. In such cases, it is quite difficult to provide a comfortable temperature in a separate room, without the use of additional heat sources or renovation works, providing better thermal insulation of the room.

The reason that tenants are freezing in their apartments is also the poor-quality setting and regulation of equipment. This may be the case when non-specialists are involved in the maintenance of heat supply systems, or when they are not observed apartment heating standards for reasons of economy or other reasons.

In new buildings, it is cold most often when mistakes were made at the design stage of the heat supply of the object or during the production of construction and installation work.

It often happens that there is illegal interference of individuals in the design of equipment for heat supply or unauthorized re-equipment of the system in their own interests, without taking into account the interests of other residents of the house living in neighboring apartments.

Residents can spontaneously perform the following actions, which subsequently worsen the heat supply to other apartments:

• Increase the number of radiators
• Expand the heated area (for example, when equipment warm balcony or loggias),
• Connect additional devices using a common heating system (equip warm floors, install thermal curtains etc.).

The reason for the cold can also be the low energy efficiency of your residential building, as well as various violations of construction norms or technologies. Old houses are often characterized by low quality of thermal insulation, and if the building has been without overhaul, then the thermal insulation becomes unusable and practically ceases to perform its functions.

Materials used in new homes last generation, they are very durable and resistant to negative climatic influences. If the residents of a new building have a question: why is it cold in the apartment, then the reason may be either in violation of the technology of thermal insulation or in the fact that during construction they simply saved on materials, replacing them with unreliable and outdated ones. As a result, all the heat goes outside instead of warming up the tenants of the apartment.

What if your apartment is very cold?

First of all, you should check with your neighbors if they are experiencing the same discomfort or if you are alone in your problem. It is best to examine the situation not only in your specific house, but also in neighboring houses, which are supplied with heat by the same management company. If the problem is global, then it will be much easier to solve it together.

If the apartment has cold batteries, then be sure to measure the air temperature in each of the rooms of your living space. It is worth knowing that, in accordance with the current standards, the rooms during the heating season should not be lower than 18C, and in corner living quarters - not lower than + 20C.

After you have taken all the measurements, call the dispatch office of your management company, make sure that your complaint is recorded. If the reason why it is cold in your apartment is not known in the ZhEK, then a heat check in the apartment should be assigned with the obligatory drawing up of an act. You should be aware that if the temperature in your home is below the established norm, then you have the right to require Management organization recalculation of utility bills for heat supply.

How to make an apartment warm

You can correspond with management company and with the state housing inspectorate, but the heat in the house will not appear from this. Sometimes it takes years to solve a problem and it is much easier to take care of yourself on your own.

Most often, the cold penetrates into our homes through window openings. It is best to install modern windows made of plastic, if for such improvements you do not have this moment means, then at least insulate your windows, glue the joints, gaps in the places where the glass adjoins the frame and other gaps into which cold seeps with window sealant. Be sure to also supply entrance doors and window vents with seals.

It will be more difficult if your walls freeze through, and mold often appears in the corners. This fact suggests that there are voids in the walls and there is serious problems with thermal insulation. In order to fill all the voids, it is necessary to remove the plaster layer and treat all the cracks with polyurethane foam. This will eliminate cold bridges.

You can also add additional insulation to your apartment. For this, floors, ceilings and walls are sheathed with plasterboard, all voids are laid with a layer mineral wool (it is reliable and inexpensive modern insulation), then the walls are plastered, and the floors are poured concrete screed and spend decorative trim surfaces.

This is very efficient wayhow to make warmth in an apartment, which, moreover, will help to solve the problem with sound insulation of your living space.

To make your apartment warmer, several simple ways... After all, the apartment should be warm, and the situation when even the walls cannot save from the cold own apartment familiar to many.

In addition, it often happens that cold weather begins earlier than the heating season and the question of how to be saved from hunger worries many.

First, pay attention to the windows and balcony doors, because they are the main cause of heat leakage from the apartment. And if you have not yet acquired double-glazed windows, then it is best to do this.

Such windows reliably protect from the cold and do not release heat. After all, as a rule, easy installation new generation windows allow you to raise the temperature in the apartment by 3-4 degrees.

However, the installation of new double-glazed windows will not help you if the heating system in your apartment does not cope with its duties.

There are two ways to bring it into working order: replace old radiators with new ones, or repair it.

Before spending money on the purchase of new radiators, try to understand and identify the cause bad work systems.

First, check the temperature of the pipes suitable for your radiators, they should warm up to 85-90 ° C. If the temperature in them meets the standards, then go ahead and check our radiators.

If the battery is hot, but the air temperature in the room leaves much to be desired, then you can "build up" the battery by adding a few more additional sections to it.

But before adding sections, pay attention to how the device is connected, because if the inlet and outlet pipes fit the radiator on one side, then there is no point in building up the battery.

All sections of the radiator should have the same temperature, but very often it happens that the first sections are warmed up to the prescribed 85-90 ° C, while the rest remain barely warm.

This may be due to either an air bubble that may have formed in the device or a blockage.

The air bubble can be removed using an air release valve called a Mayevsky tap. Well, it is more difficult to eliminate the blockage, because cleaning the radiator is a very laborious process and often does not give a tangible result. In this case, it is easier to replace the poorly working radiator with a new one.

Before going to the store to purchase a new radiator, be sure to find out what kind of heating system wiring is used in your home. It is not difficult to find out. Talk to neighbors living on the first and last floors. If it is warmer upstairs, then the wiring is top, but if it is warmer on the first floor, the bottom.

When buying a new radiator, be sure to take into account the type of wiring used in your house, because with the lower wiring, the heat transfer of the radiator drops by 20-25% compared to that stated in the documentation.

Also pay attention to what kind of heating system you have: one-pipe or two-pipe. Look carefully at your battery: if the inlet and outlet pipes go from the radiator to the same pipe, it means that it is one-pipe, but if it is different, it is two-pipe.

This must be taken into account when choosing radiators because when one-pipe system some types of radiators are not recommended. Be sure to consult with experts to make the right choice.

It should also be remembered that if your battery is installed deep in a niche under the windowsill, then its heat transfer will be lower than expected.

A decorative box and blackout curtains covering the battery will also take away the heat in your apartment.

Well, it would seem such a necessary trifle as the coloring of the battery also does its job. Several layers of paint can significantly reduce heat transfer.

You can save heat from the battery by insulating the wall behind the radiator. Then the battery will not heat the wall of the house, but the room in which it is located.

If the flow warm air, created by a heating radiator, immediately rises and the temperature at the floor level can be several degrees lower than under the ceiling, then when using a floor heating system, the heated air is evenly distributed throughout the room, which eliminates the possibility of drafts.

In addition, when heating with a radiator, the air temperature in one part of the room can be warmer than in the other, and when using the underfloor heating system, the air remains warm equally in all parts of the room.

Fourthly, insulate the walls. This method will not only help you stay warm in winter, but also save you from the heat in summer. Thermal insulation materials will make your apartment practically invulnerable to external influences, be it cold or heat.

Fifth, install the system autonomous heating... The autonomous heating system allows you to independently control the temperature in the apartment.

It's not cheap and quite troublesome, but the game is worth the candle. Now you can buy excellent modern equipment and the owners of such apartments have a unique opportunity to completely abandon heating network services.

When to start and when to end heating season you will decide for yourself. Plus, you will be spared huge heating bills.

I wish you to feel comfortable, no matter what the temperature outside the window.