2.3. Floor heating design (on plan views)<br>

## 2.3. Floor heating design (on plan views)

### 2.3.1. Stages of crating a project

The basic stages of creating a floor heating project consist of:

1. Creating a new project and configuring its general data, e.g. selecting the manufacturer of the floor heating system (see section 2.3.2).

2. Creating sheets with plan views of individual storeys (see section 2.2).

3. Appending room data (see section 2.3.3).

4. Drawing the floor heating system, consisting in defining the heating zones in rooms to be equipped with floor heating and placing manifolds. At this stage the HZ data and manifold data should also be appended and the setting of the “Create virtual connections” field in general data should be checked (see section 2.3.4).

5. Calculations and analysis of data diagnostics messages delivered by the program. At this point you can go back to drawing editing (previous stages), and upon introducing the necessary changes, revert to item 4 or proceed to item 5 (see section 2.3.5).

6. First stage of calculations – determination of the supply temperature for individual control circuits. You can use the ts/qs optimising function provided by the program (see section 2.3.6).

7. Analysis of calculation results and messages shown during calculations and introduction of amendments by selecting other pipe layout options for individual HZ’s. If there are error messages, the causes of errors must be removed, which may require going back to the graphical editor and correcting the data (see section 2.3.7).

8. Return to the graphical editor in order to make appropriate data corrections and / or divide some HZ’s as suggested by the program. If there is no need to divide HZ’s or to amend data, connect all HZ’s to manifolds (except for HZ’s heated by pipe feeds). Virtual connections must also be rejected (uncheck box). If necessary, change the default settings for pipe feeds (see section 2.3.8).

9. Repeated calculations (and determining new supply temperature, if necessary) and analysis of results. If the results are still unsatisfactory, go back to stage 7, if the results are correct, move on to the next item (see section 2.3.9).

10. Checking other results: installation specifications, general results and bill of materials. Printout configuration and printing of result tables and, upon reverting to the editor, printing of the plans of the building with the floor heating system (see section 2.3.10).