With the continuous change of social life style, people’s living appliances also have continuous progress, before people’s heating in the winter time using a piece of heating, with the continuous change of heating methods around, electric heating and into thousands of households. After that, with the emergence of small flats, people in order to save more space, this time floor heating came into being. Although floor heating has long been popular but many people still do not know some tips to check whether the floor heating is leaking, today I am here to popularize how to detect whether the floor heating is leaking at home itself.
A few quick tips to find the leaky spot of floor heating
Step 1: Conduct a pressure test to detect whether there is a water leak
The best way to determine if the floor heating is leaking is to do a pressure test again. When the floor heating is installed, you must do a pressure test: close the main valve of the floor heating, use a manual pressurizer to pressurize the floor heating, wait for half an hour when the pressure is 8 to 10 kg, and if the pressure can be maintained without dropping, it means that the heating pipe does not leak. If there is a leak, the leak will be very obvious and the pressure will be difficult to maintain for a longer period of time.
Step 2: Determine the specific location of the leak
①Observe the change of pressure gauge
Under normal circumstances, if it is determined that there is a leak in the floor heating, the pressure gauge will generally drop pressure within a short period of time. When it is determined that there is a slow leak, the first thing is to let the pipe stop running, after the floor heating surface cools down, after the pressure is injected with hot water to close the valves of each way on the manifold respectively, the pressure gauge will be observed to determine that there is no change in the pressure gauge.
② Determine the leaking circuit
After the leaking floor heating circuit is started, then subsequently the temperature measurement of the floor surface is carried out using an infrared thermometer. Initial measurement will find that the ground surface will have a certain temperature difference, this temperature difference, generally in the form of a line, that is, the installation of the floor heating pipe laying direction.
③ Determine the water leakage point
As time lengthens, the surface temperature gradually rises, and the temperature of the identified leaky pipe will warm up very high, and a peak will be formed at the leaky point, where the temperature of the leaky point will be much higher than the temperature values of other parts of the pipe. When a good leak point area, to determine the center point, the general location of the center of the leak point is usually the highest temperature, according to which the user can roughly determine the center of the leak, followed by a small area of ground excavation, inspection and repair of floor heating pipes.
However, in order to give you a satisfactory answer, I have inquired quite a lot of information, and finally summarized these points for you. I think these methods are still very practical and feasible, so everyone at home if you find that there is a leak in the floor heating, before the plumber did not come, you may want to try these small methods.
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