Underfloor Heating and Cooling System
If you are planning your new building,it is useful to consider a floor heating and cooling solution, a valid alternative to air conditioners both in residential settings and in offices and commercial activities.
Let's see the advantages and conditions necessary to make it happen.
When renovating a home or buying one under construction, it is highly advisable to think about the heating and cooling system.
A radiant floor system allows you to heat the house in winter and cool it in the summer through a SINGLE SYSTEM consisting of panels and pipes placed in the screed.
The radiant floor is the heating system that most of all ensures uniform heat. Radiant panels spread heat by radiation: this means that the hot air goes from the floor to top, improving the perception of comfort and ensuring a constant temperature throughout the room.
A radiant system can also be used for cooling rooms during the summer! The radiant cooling effect allows you to absorb the heat present in the rooms lowering the perceived temperature and controlling the humidity inside the environment through special technologies (such as dehumidification and thermoregulation).
ADVANTAGES:
- a single system for winter and summer air conditioning;
- Low energy consumption;
- High comfort thanks to the uniformity of the cool throughout all the building;
- Invisible and silent air conditioning and absence of clutter in the rooms.
DISADVANTAGES:
- this system is adequate when there is a constant need for cold (or heat) over time, bu you can't get a cold/hot room quickly, in this case air conditioners are better;
- you have to evaluate the type of coating you choose for the floor;
- in the case of wooden parquet, it is advisable to guarantee from the installer that the type of finish is compatible with radiant floor systems for cooling.
Want to know more?
The underfloor heating and cooling system requires a project built in collaboration with builders, technicians and installers. You can request a free quote by filling out the information request form on our home page.
In this way, with specific information regarding your building and your needs, we can design and create a customized system for your comfort!
Air conditioners: Cleaning and Sanitizing
Domestic air conditioning, health, hygiene and the wholesomeness of the air breathed in the house are very important.
Indoor air conditioning systems need proper annual maintenance.
The sanitizing interventions are important operations that the air conditioner need. Why?
The reasons are many and range from the greater energy efficiency of each unit to the reduction of consumption and related waste. But there is one element, in many respects the most important, on which the sanitation of the air conditioner directly affects: the quality of the air we breathe.
Every day we spend a lot of time at home and unconsciously breathe everything in the air.
In the absence of adequate cleaning of the air conditioning system, there are bacteria, pollen and fine dust in the air that are dangerous to health. The air conditioner, through the technologies it is equipped with, is able to emit fresh air, but also to eliminate microorganisms and potentially toxic substances, but correct operation is only ensured if the air conditioner is kept in correct hygienic conditions.
So sanitizing properly means eliminating all types of contaminants that would not be removed during a normal daily cleaning operation.
Ordinary cleaning is never useless, but being insufficient for removing all the elements responsible for domestic pollution.
Through the use of specific detergents and chemical products, the hygienic level of the entire air conditioning system is considerably increased, in every surface of the various components treated, so as to guarantee correct operation that ensures the effective healthiness of the breathed air.
The advice of the experts is to proceed at least once a year with the sanitization of the air conditioners.
Usually we proceed in spring, before summer, and maybe in autumn, before winter, when the air conditioning is used to heat the air.
Along with this cleaning and sanitizing work, it is always advisable for the technician to also check the condition of the air conditioner to assess whether or not it is necessary to recharge the gas and fix the leak.
Leak repair and gas refilling can only be done by certified companies with air conditioner technicians to operate with refrigerant gases.
For this reason, do not do the job twice, ask for a quote to speak with certified air conditioning technicians to evaluate maintenance and sanitize your air conditioning system!
Book our cleaning and sanitizing service for your air conditioner!
Air conditioners: Monosplit or Multisplit?
The choice of the air conditioner that best suits our needs also passes from the evaluation of the differences between monosplit vs multisplit air conditioners.
The substantial difference between these two types of air conditioners is that, while for the monosplit each indoor unit must correspond to an outdoor unit, for the multisplit each outdoor unit can correspond to more indoor units.
Depending on the connected indoor units, a multisplit air conditioner can be dual (2 units), trial (3 units), quad (4 units) and even penta split (5 units).
It is clear that the choice between monosplit and multisplit air conditioners is based, first of all, on the difference in the number of rooms to be air-conditioned.
The installation of a multisplit air conditioner is usefull in large homes, where there are several rooms to be air-conditioned, or in spaces used for commercial use, such as offices, where there may be different spaces that require cooling or heating.
The choice between monosplit and multisplit air conditioners is therefore based on functional and structural differences, and must be made on the basis of personal preferences and needs.
A point to be definitely taken into consideration when evaluating both single and multisplit air conditioners is certainly the choice of air conditioning devices that use Inverter technology: this type of technology in fact allows an intelligent and efficient use of energy because its engine works constantly at different intensities, based on the real needs of air conditioning in the rooms. In this way, it is possible to air-condition, reducing energy waste, improving comfort inside the air-conditioned rooms thanks to better temperature stabilization.
What is the best solution for your building?
How to choose an air conditioner based on the square meters?
The power of an inverter air conditioner is directly proportional to the environment to be cooled: the larger is the room, the greater the Btu / h or Watt value is required.
To choose the air conditioner to install at home, in addition to the technical characteristics and functions to be sought to benefit from maximum well-being, you must take into account the characteristics of the rooms to be cooled.
Undersizing or oversizing the air conditioning system would be a waste, both from an energy and an economic point of view.
Let's analyze how to choose an air conditioner based on the square meters.
The cooling output of an air conditioner can be easily calculated in this way:
P = K x L1 x L2 x h
P: cooling power
K: standard coefficient equal to 25-30 W / m2 (variable according to the thermal insulation class of the house)
L1: first side of the room (in meters)
L2: second side of the room (in meters)
H: height of the room (in meters)
This value, expressed in Watts, is very important to identify the air conditioner that can satisfy your energy needs and ensure the desired temperature in the areas where it is installed.
Now we can convert this data into kW or, better still, into Btu / h, where BTU (British Thermal Unit) is the unit for the measurement of the energy used to calculate the cooling power of air conditioning systems.
1 Watt = 3.412 BTU / h
Inverter Technology
A traditional air conditioner works at supplied power: it regulates the room temperature by switching the compressor on and off (on-off system); an inverter air conditioner, works at variable output depending on the temperature of the environment to be cooled or heated: it is able to change the power delivered.
The inverter air conditioners quickly reach the desired room temperature with an optimized electricity consumption: this family of air conditioners, once the ideal temperature is reached, slows down the engine speed and operates at minimum, keeping the set temperature constant.
In this way, it does not consume energy to stop and then start again and always guarantees maximum comfort with minimum energy expenditure.
Thanks to this system, the manufacturers ensure that the inverter air conditioners every 8 hours of use allow an energy saving of 30%, compared to a traditional air conditioner.
The inverter air conditioners are equipped with a technology called "modulated technology" and the operation is linked to an electronic control unit.
But how does this system work?
- The compressor produces cold air or hot air: this is associated with an electronic system that only delivers the power necessary to reach the required temperature.
- The electronic system manages the response of the compressor based on the room's cooling requirement.
- The power delivered is therefore greater or lesser based on what is required by the environment in which the air conditioner is positioned.
Non Thermal Plasma (NTP) Technology: improve air quality
The quality of the air inside buildings is a crucial element for a healthy life. Prolonged exposure to air pollutants, both of external and internal origin, can have repercussions on health.
Never before the issue of indoor air quality has become central as in this period and related technologies represent essential solutions to reduce the risk of the spread of pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria and molds, but also dust, mites, seasonal pollen and fine powders.
To improve the quality of the air, it is essential to focus on sanitization and air exchange.
- The sanitization includes a set of procedures aimed at making the environments healthy by cleaning and disinfection or with disinfestation actions, when the presence of pathogenic and infectious microorganisms makes the living or working context unsuitable. Sanitization allows to neutralize the pathogens present in the environments.
- The air exchange instead allows to renew the internal air through a mechanical system that allows the mixing of the home air with clean air from the outside, obtaining as an indirect effect the diluition of environmental pollutants. The air exchange allows to dilute the pathogens present in the rooms.
What does NTP technology consist of?
NTP (Non Thermal Plasma) technology is based on the ionization process by impact of the air that we normally breathe, and consists of the collision between particles at high speed, which are energized by an oscillating electric field.
The kinetic energy given to the molecules allows the formation of ions, which are atoms or molecules that have lost or acquired electrons.
The cold plasma is able to electrically charge the air particles, transforming them into an ionized gas, which acts on the volatile organic compounds, disaggregating them, as well as reducing the viral load of any pathogens present in the air by a chemical process environment.
Furthermore, NTP technology is a system resulting from a natural process, therefore without the addition of disinfectant or sanitizing substances, which are also good for the environment.
Vitoclima 300-Style, Vitoclima 232-S and the Vitoclima 300-S multisplit air conditioner are integrated with a NTP technology device, which can be activated from the remote control, which allows you to sanitize the air in the room.
Thanks to this integrated function it is possible to neutralize up to 99% the pathogens present in the air in just two hours.