Warm flooring is a good solution for additional heating of the home. In the cold winter, it adds coziness and comfort to the room. Owners of private homes in this regard are more fortunate. In your home, a warm floor can be installed using a gas or electric boiler for heating and water supply.

And what about the residents of apartment buildings who also want to add a little heat, especially if there are small children in the house?

To get permission to install a warm floor in the apartment, you need to change the heating project. After all, the water floor in the apartment building will be connected to the heating pipes, batteries, which is interpreted as a violation of the housing code. Without official permission, this is prohibited, as it is an unauthorized redevelopment and introduction of changes to the general heating system of a house.

The heating system is designed with the calculation of a certain power, that is, as much heat is supplied to the house as it needs. A connection by residents of an additional source of heat consumption leads to a decrease in the efficiency of the system. In other words, one will be good, while the other will not.

Also, in case of breakthrough of communications in the floor from the flooding, neighbors from below can suffer. And they will have to find out the relationship with them already in court.

The authorities constantly warn of responsibility for installing the water circuit, but there are still those who want to install it in their apartment. Since in our conditions it is almost impossible to obtain official permission for this, many act at their own peril and risk. If no one finds out, then maybe it will cost.

Is it possible to formalize?

The formalization of an autonomous water heating system requires compliance with at least two conditions:

1. After installing the underfloor heating, the total power should remain unchanged. But for this it is necessary to reduce the number of radiators in the rooms, and this is not always permissible.
2. To prevent water leakage to neighbors, it is necessary to make good waterproofing and develop a project, indicating the types of materials used. But even in this case, the risk of pipe breakthrough and flooding cannot be eliminated 100%. And all the blame for the consequences will lie with the culprit of the illegal redevelopment.

To fulfill these conditions is unrealistic. Therefore, many take the risk of independently connecting the heating circuit of the underfloor heating without any coordination. For this, the owners face a fine, as well as the order to dismantle the installed system at their own expense.

The most correct solution would be to install independent heating in the apartment. It is easier to do this, having received permission from the BTI to redevelop.