Modular Floor Heating

Floor heating offers effective, energy-saving heating. It emits radiant heat evenly across the entire floor area, thus ensuring that feet stay warm and providing a cosy atmosphere. If our feet are warm, we feel comfortable. Due to the low flow temperatures, hardly any convection is created, and the room remains free of dust circulation. ALSO, there are no obtrusive radiators and you can design your space any way you want.

Since floor heating is a low-temperature distribution system, alternative energy saving systems such as heat pumps, biomass or solar thermal energy can be used. Naturally, the Variotherm floor heating systems also function with gas or oil.

Do you want to retrofit a floor heating system? No problem!

The super-slim floor heating in drywall construction is excellently suited both to new buildings and for sensitive refurbishment. The VarioComp floor heating is just 20 mm thick and can be easily and simply installed retrospectively. The gypsum fibre boards are laid in a drywall construction.

Where can floor heating be used?

• Refurbishment
• New buildings
• Medical buildings
• Listed buildings
• Refurbishment of single rooms, such as bathrooms

Fitting individual rooms with floor heating

You’re planning to refurbish your bathroom. Why not replace the heating system while you’re at it? You can also install the modular floor heating in individual rooms. So, out with your old radiators and in with floor heating!

The VarioPump distributor station or Pump microstation with pump connects the new low-temperature floor heating with the existing high-temperature heating system.

Quickly reaching the right temperature

Drywall construction floor heating reacts very quickly. Thanks to their low construction height of 20 mm, the heating pipes are close to the floor covering. This means that the floor heats up quickly. This makes the VarioComp floor heating system excellently suited to rapidly changing room air temperatures, such as large glass surfaces, or many people in a single room, wood burning stoves, kitchens, etc.

The room stays cosy and warm – even at lower flow temperatures.

Due to the quick response time of the VarioComp the room air temperature is easier to regulate using a room thermostat than with screed floor heating.

Ideal floor coverings for floor heating

You can lay whichever floor covering you like, whether it’s stone, laminate and multi-layer parquet, ceramic tiles, linoleum or carpet. It’s important that the floor covering is suitable according to the manufacturer’s specifications.

In general, the thicker the covering, the slower the heat transfer, since the floor has to be heated up for longer. For example, tiles and natural stone have a high thermal conductivity and quickly radiate heat into the room.

Constant energy saving

Floor heating is a low-temperature system. In other words, the heating pipes are laid over the entire floor area. The system can operate with low flow temperatures. Depending on the outside temperature, it is sufficient when water is heated to between 26 and 38 °C. By comparison, conventional radiators require a flow temperature of up to 60 °C. The reason for this is that due to their small surface area, they only radiate heat into the room at certain points.

The radiant heat also lowers heating costs: the room air temperature can be reduced by up to 2 °C compared to convection heating systems. And we still feel comfortably warm. Every degree less saves around 6% heating costs per year.

Floor, wall, ceiling – the perfect trio

For an all-round cosy room climate, we recommend a combination of floor, wall and ceiling heating.

Wall heating provides a larger exchange area for heating and cooling than floor or ceiling heating – the radiant heat is clearly noticeable.

For hot summer days, we recommend wall and/or ceiling cooling

One system – many benefits

No more cold feet! Floor heating creates an all-round cosy atmosphere. Floor heating with drywall construction can also be installed later on – even in just one single room, such as your bathroom.

The benefits for you

• Invisibly installed in the floor – creative furnishing and decorating
• Free of draughts – does not blow dust into the air
• Fast response time – heats the room in an instant
• The existing floor can be retained
• Different floor coverings possible(tiles, stoneware, parquet, laminate or carpet)
• Every heating system is suitable as a heat source, whether it’s a thermal pump, pellet heating, biomass, solar, gas, oil, etc.
• Comfortable room climate thanks to perfectly heated floors
• The temperature can be regulated individually for each room
• Saves up to 25% heating costs
• Maintenance-free
• 10-year guarantee

This is how floor heating is constructed using drywall construction

If you want to retrofit floor heating, install the VarioComp floor heating system. All components in this complete drywall construction system are perfectly matched and weighs only 25 kg/m2:

• The specially milled routings on the VarioComp panels
• The easy to bend VarioProFile pipe with an extremely stable form (aluminium multi-layer composite pipe)
• The fast-drying VarioComp filling compound
• The height of the optional XPS and Silent underlay panels

Construction:

1. Substructure
2. VarioComp panel 600 x 1000 mm
3. VarioProFile pipe 11.6 x 1.5
4. VarioComp filling compound
5. Floor covering

Tested and certified

In addition, the complete system, which has been tested and proven in practice, has been awarded a number of quality certificates.

Quick reaction times

The VarioComp surface heats up far more quickly than equivalent wet screed floor heating systems. A comparative test shows that the VarioComp surface heats up 2.5 hours faster than the screed floor system. And cools down faster avoiding overheated rooms.

Comparative measurement

1. Heating water temperature
2. Modular Floor heating system VarioComp surface temperature
3. Screed floor heating system surface temperature
4. Short reaction time when the heating system is switched on and off

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Prerequisites as a suitable substructure

The subsurface must be dry, dust-free and grease-free:

1. Dry
The subsurface must be dry, dust-free and grease-free. Maximum residual humidity of the subsurface (CM values):

• Untreated concrete: 3.0 %
• Cement screed: 2.0 %
• Calcium sulphate screed: 0.5 %

2. Level
The required evenness is as follows (ÖNORM DIN 18 202):

3. Load-bearing
It must be ensured that there is a load-bearing capacity pursuant to ÖNORM EN 1991-1-1.

Ideal floor coverings for floor heating

The surface of the VarioComp floor heating system complies with ÖNORM DIN 18202.

You can lay whichever floor covering you like, whether it’s stone, wood, laminate and multi-layer parquet, ceramic tiles, linoleum or carpet. It’s important that the floor covering is suitable, according to the manufacturer’s information.

In general, the thicker the covering, the slower the heat transfer, since the floor has to be heated up for longer. For example, tiles and natural stone have a high thermal conductivity and quickly radiate heat into the room.

The floors should have a maximum thermal resistance of 0.15 m²K/W. Variotherm’s recommendation: ≤ 0.1 m²K/W.

Simple and quick to install

The 18 millimetre-thin gypsum fibre boards are laid on a flat and load-bearing substructure using drywall construction. These VarioComp panels have specially milled routings. This enables the VarioProFile pipe 11.6×1.5 (aluminium multi-layer composite pipe) to be laid individually. This guarantees even pipe spacing. At the same time, the pipe is firmly fixed between the routings. The heating pipe can be laid in meander or bifilar form.

Finally, the special VarioComp filling compound is poured on and levelled. The floor covering can already be laid after a short drying period (after around 24 hours). Any surface is possible: wooden parquet, tiles, stone flooring, laminate or carpet.