How to insulate the floor in the country

Cold floor brings a lot of discomfort in human life and promises cold. On the walls of the room there are wet spots of dirty-black coloring, which will be in disrepair of walls and overlap. Therefore, during the construction of a country house, you should take care of the qualitative insulation of the floor to prevent these troubles, regardless of whether you will live in the country only in the warm season or you will visit possessions to another year.

Choosing materials for heat insulation, it should be remembered about the importance of such criteria insulation: low thermal conductivity, resistance to a wet environment, low weight, durability indicators, simplicity of material processing. Under these requirements are suitable: foam, polystyrene foam, minvat, basalt wool, extruded polyurethane foam, perlite, ceramzite, cork coating. The procedure for insulation of sex in the country depends on which material was used for its arrangement. Most often, concrete or wooden floors are made in the summer house, less often - others. From this and will be repelled.

We will analyze the process of wood insulation of the wooden floor in the summer house of lagas, since this method is used most often:

Old coating will have to dismantle to expose the draft floor. Put on the base of lags made of wooden beams, which is pre-impregnated with protective compositions. Remember that the moisture of wood should not exceed the mark of 12%. The lag mounting step ranges from 60 to 100 cm.
In the space that was formed between lags, put the heat insulator on plywood shields. There are no loads in this case in this case, so you can use even fragile minvatu or fiberglass.
Also pay attention to bulk materials to which clamzit and perlite are attributed. They are falling asleep there - into the space between lags.
Consider that it is necessary to protect the layer of insulation with waterproofing, while from both sides. Polymer film will be used to work, which has a thickness of at least 250 μm. If foaming is used for insulation, you can not lay the waterproofing material.
Do not forget to equip vaporizolation. With heat insulation on the second floor, cottages should also worry about sound insulation.
At the final stage, put the floor covering - old, dismantled before work, or new.

Warming is possible and without installation lag, right along a concrete base, but consider the increasing load on the insulation, which requires the use of materials that are inherent in high strength and density.

Concrete floors are very cold, it is unpleasant to walk on them even in sneakers, and to fix it, the surface is necessarily insulating. For floor of concrete, the heat insulation method for lags is suitable, the sequence of actions is as follows:

Make sure that the concrete surface is dry, and put on it a waterproofing material, for example, a thick polyethylene film to protect the half of the giving from the impact of a wet environment.
Set lags in a step of 60-100 cm.
In the gaps, place the insulation: minvatu, foam, expanded polystyrene, perlite or clay. Any of them is characterized by good properties: does not absorb water, minimal thermal conductivity, durability, low weight.
Squeeze the chipboard on top. Boards are also suitable.
At the constituent stage, you can lower the floor covering.

In addition, there is the possibility of arranging floating gender, which is a multi-layer "pie", consisting of such layers: insulation (extruded polystyrene foam), cement screed, which is not attached to anything - nor to the walls or to the base, outdoor coating. This technique is suitable when installing a floor with electric heating.

For insulation of the floor in the country house, thermal insulation using plywood, chipboard or fiber:

You can pre-equip lags, but the materials are most often positioned directly on the base, in 2 layers, to obtain a more tangible effect.
In order to protect the material, do not forget to lay a polyethylene film.
Position the wood-fibrous plates, while the extreme closers should not be tightly adjacent to the wall, leave the gap of 1.5 cm, it is necessary to compensate for the irregularities in the case of a stuffing of a temperature or humidity.
For fixing use dowels or screws.
Draw joints by applying a construction grid, then process with a putty, which is recommended to mix pre-with oil paint in a ratio of 1 to 1.
On the perimeter it is necessary to install an outdoor plinth.
On top of this design, the selected flooring is linoleum, technical or carpet coating.

There are other ways of insulation of concrete floor in the country house:

Modern and efficient material is the heat insulating paint. The tool can be applied to the new floor, and on the old one. The surface should be pre-cleaned. The paint is applied in several layers, while waiting for the previous one will dry.
Warming with warm linoleum is also popular, especially on the second floor of the country's house. Such a material consists of 2 layers: the upper polyvinyl chloride, which is resistant to mechanical damage, and the lower - warm substrate made from natural felt. When choosing a budget warm linoleum, remember that the substrate in this case is made of a synthetic nonwoven base. The substrate has a thickness of up to 4 mm. When laying a warm linoleum between its edges and the wall, the gap leaves.
The use of technical traffic is in demand, as the coating is characterized by durability and practicality. It is a completely eco-friendly material: for the manufacture, the cork oak bark is used, the pre-crushed and glued resin, which is contained in the same mass. The plug of moisture and firepower, it is inherent in high thermal insulation properties. But along with a lot of advantages, it has one drawback, which consists at a high price.

In addition, to solve the process of cold gender, the installation of heating systems into the coating is chosen in the country, namely a water or electric warm floor.