Knallkörper
2016-10-07 11:22:20
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In my experience, it is indeed possible to create significant and noticeable temperature differences between rooms, of course also with underfloor heating. In our current house, which is not very well insulated, we have 14-15°C in the bedroom and 25°C and 21°C in the adjacent rooms (bathroom, children's room).
If this were not possible, it would also mean a significant loss of quality of life for me, as I cannot sleep at all at 20°C.
It also does not make sense to me why there should be a difference in this matter between underfloor heating and regular radiators. The inertia is not an argument if the underfloor heating in the bedroom is ALWAYS set to 14°C (or "off").
The insulation between the rooms is certainly weaker than the insulation of the exterior wall, but for that the temperature differences are also about an order of magnitude smaller. However, the insulation is NOT worse by an order of magnitude when building, for example, with aerated concrete or Poroton or wooden studs + mineral wool. The heat transfer of the door naturally depends on the model of the room door, but a hollow chipboard probably does not insulate by an order of magnitude worse than a window of the same size in the exterior wall, just to reestablish this reference.
I do not believe that the flow temperature is raised when, for example, only one room is heated. The difference between flow and return temperature initially becomes smaller when only one floor is "flowed through". Of course, this depends on the type of control; I do not know if every heating system nowadays can regulate the volume flow by both the pump speed AND the flow temperature. Even if the flow temperature had to be raised slightly (which I do not believe), but the flow rate drops significantly (because fewer subordinate heating circuits are flowed through and the pressure loss increases or because the pump speed is throttled), then significantly less energy is still transported. This effect certainly compensates for the disadvantages that would arise from the heating device operating at a less favorable operating point (which would still have to be proven).
If this were not possible, it would also mean a significant loss of quality of life for me, as I cannot sleep at all at 20°C.
It also does not make sense to me why there should be a difference in this matter between underfloor heating and regular radiators. The inertia is not an argument if the underfloor heating in the bedroom is ALWAYS set to 14°C (or "off").
The insulation between the rooms is certainly weaker than the insulation of the exterior wall, but for that the temperature differences are also about an order of magnitude smaller. However, the insulation is NOT worse by an order of magnitude when building, for example, with aerated concrete or Poroton or wooden studs + mineral wool. The heat transfer of the door naturally depends on the model of the room door, but a hollow chipboard probably does not insulate by an order of magnitude worse than a window of the same size in the exterior wall, just to reestablish this reference.
I do not believe that the flow temperature is raised when, for example, only one room is heated. The difference between flow and return temperature initially becomes smaller when only one floor is "flowed through". Of course, this depends on the type of control; I do not know if every heating system nowadays can regulate the volume flow by both the pump speed AND the flow temperature. Even if the flow temperature had to be raised slightly (which I do not believe), but the flow rate drops significantly (because fewer subordinate heating circuits are flowed through and the pressure loss increases or because the pump speed is throttled), then significantly less energy is still transported. This effect certainly compensates for the disadvantages that would arise from the heating device operating at a less favorable operating point (which would still have to be proven).