The main task of the heating system of the apartment or private house is competently organized heating of all rooms and the normal functioning of each highway. The functionality of each node, uniform heat distribution, the ability to repair individual blocks provide special boiler collectors installed in multi-room residential and production buildings.

With this device, you can evenly distribute heat indoors.

Design features

The country house has a form of a simple horizontal tube with upper and lower outlines. Often such products are made of steel or brass alloys. The collector tube is equipped with a shut-off reinforcement, which allows you to cut off the supply of hot media in time when a problem occurs or adjust the water pressure. Numerous taps perform the function of dispensers through which the boiler connects with heating radiators, pools and other objects to which heat is served.

Other basic and optional constructive elements of distribution collectors include:

1. Cutting cranes that are responsible for overlapping water flow on any contour without stopping the coolant supply to other radiators and other heating sources.
2. Adjustable cranes that can be manual, semi-automatic or fully automated.
3. Auxiliary thermal sensors and regulators installed on the cranes.
4. Valves for the drain of the coolant and the release of air from the pipes.
5. The feed pipe carrying out the coolant transportation from the boiler (boiler) to the heating circuits.
6. The reverse tube intended for passing the cooled water.
7. Thermal heads that are responsible for regulating the degree of heating of the carrier.
8. Hydroathek that performs the function of the water distributor as heated.

Feature of collectors for heating boilers is the ability to "build up" design. If the number of radiators or other heating sources increases, then you can buy yourself and install thermal heads, flow meters, etc.

In this video you will learn the specifics of the collector:

Appointment and advantages of the distributor

The name of this element of the heating system suggests that high-quality fittings guarantees security and helps adjust the coolant stream for each contour. Thanks to the thoughtful design and variations of its execution, you can maintain a normal temperature in all rooms of the country house.

To the other advantages of heating collectors for the boiler room can be attributed:

1. The effectiveness of the coolant distribution between different heating elements with a variety of thermal loads.
2. The versatility of the structure that is suitable for transporting hot water to heating batteries, warm floors, pools, baths, boilers of indirect heating, heat exchangers on the plates.
3. Setting up and adjusting the media without having to turn off the entire home heating system.
4. Compact placement of distribution plumbing equipment in one place.
5. Speed \u200b\u200band convenience of installation, dismantling.
6. The possibility of mounting a boiler manifold in single-storey houses, cottages, apartments, cottages, offices, as well as in production.
7. Strength and durability of the structure, which is made from brass or steel.
8. A variety of types of products that differ in sizes, complete set, the direction of outputs for connecting highways.

In addition, the boiler collector helps avoid emergency situations (leaks of pipes, batteries, etc.) during the heating season. This makes it possible to make repair work timely, eliminate the problem, without turning off the entire system.

Cost of equipment

Many homeowners are mistaken, considering that the distribution manifold for the boiler room is a fabulous money. Plumbing stores can be found many models without special frillswhich will cost only 200-500 rubles. Such equipment will not have mechanisms for regulation, thermal heads and other additional elements, and they are calculated for a maximum of 2-3 contours.

Models with extended functionality will cost the owner of a house or a production building, which wishes to organize a competent heating system, approximately 4-5 thousand rubles. A long tube with several upper and lower conclusions will be equipped with thermal heads, flow meters, arrows and other details. Such structures often produce Russian manufacturers or trademarks of neighboring countries. The most expensive is the imported equipment with automatic adjustment, which will cost 10-16 thousand rubles.

Installing a collector block

Installation of the heating manifold is carried out in close proximity to the boiler. Radiator pipes from the heater are often packed by the floor, after which the design is concreted and is isolated, which allows you to minimize heat loss. The collector unit itself is mounted in a specifically prepared for this shield or a wall niche. A special shield can be attached or built-in, equipped door and side afterwards or open. If the possibility of mounting the locker is missing, the collector unit is fixed on the wall at low height from the floor.

If the building is a multi-storey, the distributor will be installed on each floor of the house, which will warm up any room. Such a system will allow you to regulate, connect and disconnect one or several heating radiators, the entire room, a full outline. This eliminates the need to turn off the flow of the coolant to other heating sources. As a room for installing a distribution collector, storehouses, hallways, corridors, wardrobes are used.

FEATURES OF MONTAGE

When organizing a collector block of a country house, difficulties may occur during the installation of the distributor for the boiler room. Installing the collector requires homeowner compliance with some rules and requirements:

1. Installation of the circulation pump, which is necessary for a system with several contours.
2. Installation of an expansion tank located in front of the pumping station on the backbone of the return of water.
3. Acquisition of additional elements of the pipeline, shut-off reinforcement, automation (if necessary).
4. Installation of collector groups in special drawers made of metal (installation type can be mortise or mounted).
5. Decorating a box with a collector, which will make the design more aesthetic.
6. Selection of the room where the distribution element and components will be installed in which the normal humidity (corridor, storage room, dressing room, etc.) must be installed.
7. Summing up through special holes in the side walls of the collector box.

Despite all the simplicity of the process, professionals should be engaged in design and installation, which will be able to correctly arrange a panel with a collector, connect it to boiler room and heating sources. The high professionalism of the installers will reduce the time of installation work, increase the efficiency of the use of the collector for the boiler, reduce the vulnerability of the expansion tank to the turbulence of water flows.

Economical and reliable boiler collectors - devices, without which it is difficult to present a normally functioning system of heating a private house or a country cottage. Function equipment allows you to accurately adjust the heating of each room and the entire residential or production building. Thanks to the well-thought-out design and ease of use, you can perform emergency repair with minimal damage without turning off the entire heating system. In addition, the camshafts are relatively inexpensive.

How to install a reservoir for heating

In the process of creating a system of heating of an individual residential building, it makes sense to abandon the linear structure, the individual radiators of which are consistently connected to the pipes. The basis of such a decision lies a number of shortcomings of the traditional approach, the main of which are considered low operational flexibility and small management efficiency.

Device of the collector heating system

Instead of a linear structure, a radiation scheme is widely used in individual construction, the essence of which is that each radiator is paved its feed and return pipelines. This makes individual heat exchangers to make independent of each other and allows you to adjust their temperature without affecting the remaining elements of the heating system.

One of the key components of the heating system is a collector. This component provides:

• Distribution of the heated heat carrier to radiators and pipes of the warm floor, as well as the refund of the cooled coolant to the heating boiler;
• Automatic removal of air from the heating system of heating;
• Disconnecting a separate radiator or a whole group of them in the event of such a need.

In the radial system, at least two combs will necessarily: one of them works with a heated coolant, and the second is cooled. Their set is called a collector unit or collector group.

The comb's body is permissible to be used as a platform for installing other elements, for example, thermostators of various purposes and execution, as well as flow meters.

Collector location selection

In multi-storey private houses, the collection of the collector group is made on each floor, which makes the process of maintenance and regulation more convenient. For installation, a special niche is usually provided that should be placed at low height from the floor. The dimensions of the niches are chosen taking into account the convenience of mounting in it themselves, as well as the accompanying reinforcement.

In the absence of niche, the assembly installation can be made in any suitable room. The main thing is that normal humidity is maintained. These include:

• Lumber room;
• Corridor;
• Storeroom, etc.

The necessary aesthetic characteristics of the installation area are achieved by the use of a locker, which can be overhead or embedded. In the side walls of the locker, cutouts under the pipes are provided.

Another factor affecting the location of the collector block is the length of the pipes. The collector should be placed in such a place so that the length does not exceed 20 m.

Design and calculation of heating contours

In the process of designing the heating circuit, the characteristics of the group and individual parts are taken into account, the transition between which is carried out by the collector group.

The group part includes the heating boiler, the circulation pump, the expansion tank, feeding and the reverse tube.

The circulation pump that provides forced circulation of the coolant through radiators, is installed in the inverse pipe necessarily in accordance with the requirements of the manufacturer, including its orientation. In the same place, at a short distance, the expansion tank is mounted.

note

The pump capacity is selected equal to about 5 * s m3 / hour, where S is the area of \u200b\u200bheated rooms. The diameter of the feed and reverse tube to connect to the boiler is at least ¾ inch, it is necessary that it necessarily exceed the diameter of the pipes of the heating loops.

The amount of the outlet of the comb must match the number of cooling circuits. In those situations where the flow meter and temperature regulator are provided in the system, the number of nozzles is doubled. A pair of pipes for the pipe and the regulator is located on a combing heating opposite each other, which ensures intuitive binding of the pipe to the regulator.

The wiring scheme is chosen so that:

• With one end side of the housing there was a connection of the feed or discharge pipe, the second is used for the air vent and the tap of filling the heating system by heat carrier;
• In the case of powering radiators on different floors, their supply and inverse pipes were directed in different directions;
• The difference in the lengths of the straight and reverse tubes did not exceed 20 cm.

It is advisable that the nozzles have the same execution along the length, the diameter of the thread and other similar parameters.

All design solutions, including pipe connection scheme, are displayed on the diagram on which the landing dimensions of each component and the purpose of all taps are indicated. For clarity, the direct contour elements are drawn in red, and the opposite is blue.

Mounting collectors

The system assembly does not represent large problems, performed by conventional plumbing tools and requires only accuracy.

At the first stage, elements of the collector unit are installed in the specified position.

The orientation of the inlet pipe on the heating comb depends on the type of the boiler of the heating system. In the case of boilers with gas or electric heating, the collector is mounted vertically. For solid fuel boilers and indirect heating boilers, the installation of this item is performed in a horizontal position.

The fixation of the collector elements in the working position in the niche or on the back wall of the cabinet is carried out by clamps on a metal bracket with a different height of fastening shelves. The latter is necessary so that the body of the feed and inverse elements does not interfere with the free passage of pipelines. The mount is performed by metal clamps with rubber inserts.

Power pipes and reverse contours are included with the side. The orientation of the nozzles can be arbitrary and is determined mainly by the convenience of installing pipelines and subsequent operational services.

Simultaneously with pipelines, regulators and sensors are mounted.

Checking the quality of the assembly is performed by tests at the maximum temperature and operation of the circulation pump at maximum power. The system is considered to be operational if after two or three hours of its functioning of the comb is not observed by the leakage of the coolant.

Homemade collector for heating

Sometimes it happens that autonomous heating in your own home is not working very effectively. It seems that the capacity of the boiler is chosen correctly, and the pipe wiring is made competently, and all installation work is carried out at a professional level, and the temperature in the house is not the same as you would like.

What to do in this case? Output one - install the distribution manifold. By the way, there is no need to buy it in the finished form, the design of the collector is not very difficult, so it is not the biggest problem on its own.

So, in this article we will answer one question how to make a distribution collector with your own hands?

Functional purpose

Let's start with the fact that there is one very important rule, and if it is strictly not adhere to it, then the heating system of the house will work badly. This rule states that the diameter of the outlet of the heating boiler should always be equal to or be slightly smaller than the total indicator of the diameters of all the containers consuming coolant. The optimal option, if it is more.

For comparison, we give an example of a wall unit, in which the diameter of the output nozzle is equal to ¾ inch. Imagine that by this boiler will be heated by three separate circuits:

• The main heating is the radiator system.
• Warm floor.
• The boiler of indirect heating, which will use water intended for economic needs.

Now imagine that the diameter of each contour is minimum inch, like the boiler. But the total indicator will be three times more. That is, no matter how you want, but to produce the required amount of coolant through the diameter of the heating boiler pipe so that it is enough for all three contours, it will be simply impossible. Here is a decrease in heat transfer throughout the area of \u200b\u200bthe house.

Of course, individually all the contours will work fine. For example, the main circuit (radiator) without turning on the warm floors will fully master the heated space. But as soon as you turn on the system of warm floors, everything nor there, no heat carrier will be enough here. Temperatures in the coolant enough is missing its volume.

This serious problem is solved by installing the distribution manifold heating system.

In fact, it is a design of stainless metal pipes, in the device of which the input and output devices are installed, distributed through contours.

To control the temperature, pressure, the stream volume and its speeds by outputs, a shut-off valve is installed, which performs all the necessary functions.

The most important thing is that using the distribution manifold you can control the temperature regime in a separate room. And it will not affect the adjacent rooms and the temperature of the house as a whole.

Collector device

Consists of two pipe collector:

The one who does not understand what is the essence of the installation of the distribution manifold, begins to embed various additional installations into the heating system: a circulation pump, a valve of various purposes, and so on. Let's say straight, it will not help, with their help, it is impossible to increase the volume of the coolant. You just make unnecessary expenses that will be in vain.

Attention! If you are the owner of a large multi-storey building, it is recommended to install a separate camshaft for each floor.

Homemade collector

It is important to follow the direction

Making a homemade distribution collector must begin with planning. You need to determine for yourself some components of the heating network of the house.

• The number of contours where the coolant will be sent.
• Number of heating equipment. Do not forget to determine its power, water temperature, and so on. That is, you will need its technical characteristics.
• If in the future you plan to embed additional heating elements into the heating system, for example, heat pump or solar panels, then they are best taken into account in advance.
• Number of additional equipment (pumps, valves, fittings, accumulative tanks, thermometers, pressure gauges and other).

Now the design of the device is determined, it is especially necessary to take into account how every contour will be suitable and from which side (from below, on the side). We draw your attention to some connections nuances.

• Gas or electric boilers are connected to the collector or below, or on top. If a circulation pump is installed in the heating system, the connection is made only from the commerce end.
• The boilers of indirect heating and solid fuel units are crashed into a collector only from the end.
• The feed contours of heating systems are cut from or from above, or below.

Well, if a small pattern of the manifold design is transferred to paper. This will give a visual picture, which will be easier to make the device. In addition, it can accurately indicate the dimensional characteristics that will have to withstand in the manufacturing process.

For example, the distance between the nozzles of the feed circuits and the returns should be within 10-20 cm. It should not be more or less, it will simply be inconvenient in terms of service. In the same range, the distance between the two compartments (feed and returns) should be.

Make so that the device is compact and beautiful. We recommend to designate all threaded connections in the figure with an indication of the thread sizes, do not forget to sign all the necessary contours. This will not be mistaken when connected. Now the sketch becomes clear how much and what materials you need for the manufacture of a homemade distribution manifold.

Manufacturing process

Please note that the feed and return compartments can be made from round or square pipes. Many masters prefer the latest option. They argue that it is easier to work with him.

So, here is the sequence of manufacture:

• For all the dimensions that were indicated on the sketch, it is necessary to prepare the appropriate materials. It is almost all pipes.
• They are connected by the design of the drawing according to the purpose of each.
• The connection is performed using a welding machine.
• Welding places are necessarily cleaned with an iron brush, if necessary, degreased.
• The finished device is necessarily tested for leakage. Therefore, all the nozzles will have to be closed hermetically, leaving only one. Hot water flooded in it. If none of the junctions are dried, it means that the work has been carried out at a high level.
• The collector must be painted and dried.
• You can install and connect all pipe systems with installation of shut-off valves.

More simpler

Now to the question, is it not better to buy a ready-made option? There is one "but". The finished camshaft can definitely not approach your heating system, you will have to level the heat engineering in other ways.

For example, installing an additional comb. And these are extra costs and an excess volume of installation work.

And the self-made comb, in which you took into account all the design features of the heating of your home, it is accurately suitable for it and will work efficiently and rationally.

So it is worth thinking about the question that was put at the beginning of the article, how to make a distribution collector with your own hands? Let's just say this is a simple process to which you spend one day. But you simply must own the skills of working with a welding machine and other plumbing tools. Without this, guarantee the quality of the device will not be possible.

Collectors for heating - installation, calculation and installation with your own hands

During the construction of the building, the substantial cost of the cost is the arrangement of the heat supply system.

For this reason, at the stage of designing your own house or production building, it is necessary to carefully consider how it is better to make a collector of heating with your own hands.

In the presence of miscalculations in the scheme in the future, it does not avoid problems in the process of exploitation of heating equipment and when repairing it.

It is also necessary to correctly choose a method of laying pipelines to obtain a heating system, which will be highly productive, as well as efficient and trouble-free operation of the collector for the heating system. The most in demand is currently radiable or combined - radial version of the installation of pipes, which come from the source of thermal energy to heating radiators.

Features of the radiation collectors for heating

Collective home heating with their own hands: schemes, nodes, groups

The main problem of the heating system of the Big House is the rapid cooler cooler. This is characteristic of classical single-tube and two-pipe systems. Their alternative is the correctly designed collector system of home heating at your own hands: schemes, nodes, groups.

Installation of the collector heating system

General Collector Heating Scheme

First, you need to decide whether a collector system of water heating is needed? It applies only in cases where the coolant cooler speed in pipes in the classical scheme will be critical or in large homes. The main difference is the separation of the system into several heating circuits operating independently of each other.

Despite the positive parties to make the right collector heating with their own hands it will be problematic. Therefore, before choosing a specific scheme (or its preparation), we must take into account several important factors of the actual installation:

• Large square of the house. For uniform thermal distribution, you need to make several heating circuits;
• Ineffective installation of a tee scheme. It can affect the hydraulic distribution throughout the heating system;
• The need to disconnect from the heating of individual premises. This is one of the ways to optimize energy costs.

Given these factors, the collector heating of the two-storey house is the most optimal way to organize autonomous heat supply.

The composition of the collector heating system

Simple collector heating scheme

At the first stage, it is necessary to familiarize themselves with the principle of design of autonomous heat supply. The simplest collector heating scheme consists of one distribution unit to which individual system highways are connected.

The composition includes standard components - boiler, circulating pump, expansion tank and security group. The collector node is installed directly next to the boiler and consists of two elements:

• Input. Connects to the feed pipe from the heating device and distributes a hot heat carrier by contours;
• Output. Inverse pipes from individual highways lead to it. We are necessary for collecting cooled water and its direction to the boiler for further heating.

Complex collector groups for heating are equipped with adjustment devices for the supply of heat carrier - thermal heads (input) and mechanical limiters on the output.

Multi-level collector heating

This principle is used to organize the heat supply of a single-storey private house, where the power of the circulation pump will be sufficient to ensure normal pressure in the pipes. Two collector groups for heating can be installed for a two-story building. One of them will be intended for distribution in separate contours, and the second serves as the main component of the warm water floor.

For such a schema, you must count the parameters of each contour. Most often there is a need to install the following additional components:

• Circulation pumps for each contour;
• Mix knot. We need to control the temperature of the coolant in the collector. The channel connects the direct and reverse tube and with the help of an control device (two or three-way valve) there is mixing streams with varying degrees of heating.

Collective diagram of a two-storey house

The traditional collector heating scheme of a two-storey house includes switchgear in the first and second levels. But it all depends on the total area of \u200b\u200bpremises and as a result - from the length of individual highways.

It is also necessary to take into account the heat transfer and optimal thermal modes in each room.

All collectors located in residential premises must be installed in special closed boxes.

Collector heating at home with their own hands

Distribution manifold with hydraulic function

Is it difficult to make and install the heating system of this type with your own hands? It should be remembered that it is much more complicated than one-tube or two-pipe. The main difficulty lies in the exact calculations of each collector node for heating.

If the collector-type heating is intended for a home with a large area and a variety of individual highways - it is recommended to install a camshaft with a hydraulic compensator function. Its difference from the standard is to connect the feed and reverse collector with the help of nozzles. Its installation gives the following advantages:

• Prevents the occurrence of hydraulic shocks;
• Compensates for the pressure difference due to the temperature expansion of the coolant in the feed pipe;
• Automatic mixing streams of water and as a result - reduction of energy costs.

The comb of this type is mounted in the collector water heating system after a security group. It should be located next to the boiler. If there are additional distribution nodes in the system - they should not be reported. Their design is similar to warm floor in the collector heating of a private house.

Often it is precisely for them that groups of automatic control of the inflow of the coolant are established. In difficult collector heating schemes, the central comb is equipped with only circulation pumps and shut-off valves for each contour.

Calculation of collector heating

Calculation of the distribution comb

When performing a preliminary calculation of collector heating parameters made by your own hands, you need to take into account the bandwidth of the pipe from the boiler and the total coolant. It is important that the amount of water leaving the heat exchanger of the boiler was equal to the incoming. Thus, it is possible to achieve a uniform thermal distribution in the collector heating of a two-storey house.

It is also important to observe the hydraulic balance of the system. In practice, it is recommended to use special software packages to perform the calculation. But for small collector groups for heating, you can calculate the geometric sizes of the comb yourself. To do this, be guided by two main rules:

• The diameter of the incoming manifold nozzle must be equal to the sum of the cross sections of the suburbs for each contour;
• In a single-circuit collector, the distance between the input and output group should be 6 diameters of nozzles. In this case, the combustion body cross section is 3D.

This is the general principle of calculating for the heating of the collector type. It may vary depending on the individual characteristics of the system.

Production of heating manifold

For greater reliability, the main distribution comb in the collector heating system of water type should be made of metal. To do this, you can use pipes of both square and round sections. The first is preferable, since the installation of nozzles in them is much easier.

For this, you will need the following tools and materials:

• Pipe for the main heat of the collector node of heating. Its dimensions must comply with the calculated;
• Pipes for the distribution of heat carrier in contours. They are made of round-section pipes with a diameter of 16 to 25 mm depending on system parameters;
• Shut-off valves - ball valves for each contour;
• Tools: Welding machine, corner grinding machine (Bulgarian), Roulette, level.

First, the main body of the comb is made with their own hands for collector heating. On its surface, with the help of the welding machine make through holes in which nozzles will be installed. Then they are welded, and the tightness of the entire system is checked. To do this, you need to simulate the operation of the system.

The outlet nozzles are sealed, and water supply is connected to the input future collector heating of a private house. Using the manometers, the operating mode of the system is installed and the absence in the leakage design is visually checked. The next stage - the pressure is gradually increased to the maximum settlement.

Only after conducting such tests you can install collector groups to the heating system.

Finished Collector Heating Designs

Meibes collector for 4 outputs

The optimal version of the organization of collector heating a large two-storey house is to acquire the combs of factory manufacture. They differ from self-made greater reliability and accurate characteristics, which is important in any system.

However, their high cost should be taken into account. It depends on the number of connected contours, the diameters of the inlet nozzles and the geometric sizes of the collector.

Model
Number of pipes
Calculated power, kW
price, rub.

ELTERM KP2.
2
14
7260

Meibes v2.
2
20
12100

Meibes v3.
3
25
22800

In the video material you can familiarize yourself with the instructions for making a collector from polypropylene pipes:

Collector for home heating with his own hands: Schemes, varieties, installation

Manufacturing a collector for heating with their own hands: Overview of species, methods of calculation and installation recommendations

Uniform thermal distribution is one of the defining tasks when designing the heating system. To solve it, you can apply a number of methods. However, the most productive is a collector for heating at home with their own hands: Schemes, varieties and correct installation will help implement it in practice.

Features of collector heating

The main difference between the collector and traditional method of the distribution of the coolant is the separation of streams in several independent channels. At the same time, various types of heating collectors are used, characterized by a complete set and sizes.

The design of the distribution comb (that is sometimes called a welded collector for heating) is quite simple. In the square or round section, several pipes are installed, which are connected to individual heating circuits. The collector itself is connected to the central pipeline.

In the future, using shut-off valves, it is possible to adjust the level of the flow of the coolant into separate heat supply circuit. At the same time, you can make a distribution manifold of heating with your own hands, or purchase a ready-made design.

The operational features of heat supply with the help of a distribution comb shall be as follows:

• Uniform hydraulic and temperature distribution. Even the simplest ring heating manifold for two or four contours will be able to effectively stabilize the system;
• Adjusting heat supply modes. This is carried out with the help of special components - flow meters, mixing nodes and thermostators. But before they are installed, the correct calculation of the collector for heating is necessary;
• Maintainability of the system. For repair or preventive work, it is not necessary to turn off all heat supply in the house. It is enough to pre-install the heating collector with flow meters and with the help of shut-off valves to block the stream of hot water into a specific circuit.

But heating with collectors has a number of shortcomings. First of all, it is an increased flow consumption. The growth of hydraulic resistance is compensated by the installation of the circulation pump. It is mounted on each distribution comb in the system. Also, a steel collector for heating can be used only for closed systems.

The collector distribution of the coolant is relevant for houses with a large area. In this way, a gradual cooling of hot water is compensated, characteristic of classic two-pipe and single-tube schemes.

Types of reservoirs for heating

Before making the collector of the heating system with their own hands, it is necessary to determine its functional load. This design can be installed in several places of heat supply. It will depend on it. Her equipment, overall dimensions and level of automation level will depend.

Collector in the system warm floor

Before collecting the heating manifold, its calculation is performed, the installation location is determined. In fact, two designs are needed for the system. The comb from the feed pipe distributes a hot heat carrier through heating circuits. Inverse polypropylene reservoirs for heating are a point of collecting coalwater for its further transportation to the heat exchanger of the boiler.

The homemade header of heating may be needed in two cases - for a water heating floor system or when organizing traditional heat supply with radiators. They differ in dimensions and a complete set:

• Wrought for boiler room. For this, welded collectors for heating, manufactured from large diameter pipes up to 100 mm. In the feed comb, circulation pumps and regulatory fittings are mounted. To configure the reverse ring manifold, cutting ball valves are used;
• Flooring combs. In addition to the components described above, a mixing unit is used. It allows you to save the coolant consumption. Additionally, it is recommended to use a heating manifold with flow meters.

Each option provides its own installation scheme and operating rules. The correct installation of the heating manifold is performed only after a detailed calculation of all heat supply parameters.

Another difference is the number of established circulation pumps. In the comb for the boiler room they are equipped with each contour.

For a local type of heating collectors in a warm floor system, only one pump is installed.

The manufacturer of the comb can differ from the pipelines. The correct connection of the heating manifold in this case is done using special adapters.

Calculation of the heating manifold

Before independent manufacture of the distribution comb, it is necessary to calculate its main parameters. These include length, cross section of the connected pipe and the number of heat supply circuits. At the same time, the calculator of the heating camshaft can be made independently, or using specialized programs.

Rules of 3-diameters

The main condition is the observance of the hydraulic balance in the design.

In the distribution manifold of heating with their own hands, the throughput capacity of the connected pipe must be equal to the sum of the same characteristics of the heating circuits. In practice, this can be achieved by summing the cross section of the pipes.

The result should be equal to the cross section of the main pipe, which is connected to the feed line. Thus, you can reduce the likelihood of system unbalance.

To optimize the place, the collectors of the heating system are manufactured with their own hands in a single case. This reduces the laboriousness of the work, and also contributes to the best functioning of heat supply. However, at the same time, the minimum distance between the feed and the inverse tube should be six diameters.

For further calculations of the reservoir for heating, you can use the rules of 3-diameters. It lies in the following conditions:

• The distance between the input output of the comb shadows should be 6 diameters;
• The cross section of the steel or polypropylene collector for heating is the 3rd diameters of the pipe connected to the system;
• The remote control of heating contours is 3rd diameters;

It is also important to choose the right circulation pump. First of all, it concerns its performance. Before mounting the heating manifold, the specific water flow in the system is calculated and the pump is selected according to the results. For complex schemes with multiple collectors, this procedure should be done for each contour individually and the entire system as a whole.

To make a homemade heating manifold, you can use pipes with a square, rectangular or round cross section. It will not affect the work of the structure, and will not increase the hydraulic resistance. It compensates for the operation of the circulation pump.

Complete set of heating collectors

After performing the calculation, it is necessary to choose the appropriate configuration for the distribution comb. In order to properly collect the heating manifold, take care of the required elements in advance.

Collector with minimal package

In the minimum set for the steel collector, it suffices to establish a lock fittings. But in this case there will be difficulties with the adjustment of the power of hotel contours of heating.

Therefore, the taps with a rod, with which you can smoothly adjust the flow of the coolant can be mounted in the supply comb for the boiler room. Additionally, flow meters are installed on the reverse comb.

When calculating the heating manifold for water floor, take into account another configuration scheme. It should consist of the following items:

• Adjusting valve. Mounted on pipelines. With it, you can partially or completely leave the influx of hot water. In the manufacture of the collector of the heat supply system, it is recommended to use automatic models similar to thermostators;
• Flow meters. These components are installed on the reverse comb. Their functions are similar to the adjusting valves. The difference in the operation of the heat supply collector with flow meters is to limit the inflow of the coolant into the inverse tube;
• Mixing knot. Mandatory component for water heating floor. It mixes the streams of hot and cooled water, thereby optimizing the temperature mode of heat supply.

Despite the differences, all types of heating reservoirs have one common property - provide stable system operation. You can make a similar design yourself, or by purchasing a ready-made factory model.

The last option is acceptable if the ring heat supply manifold is required for a warm floor system. When organizing heating with a comb, it is best to make them with your own hands.

note

Thus, you can adapt the design to specific heat supply parameters.

During the assembly of the heating manifold, you can use servo drives that are connected to the electronic control unit. With their help, the operation of the system will occur in automatic mode.

Self-making collector

For the manufacture of the distribution comb, a diagram is drawn up in which all materials used are taken into account. On the rules for calculating the size of the design, it was mentioned above. But besides them, it should be borne in mind that the material of manufacturing a heat supply manifold should be withstanding all types of load - temperature and pressure.

The process of manufacturing a welded manifold

The source material is best used the pipe of the square section. This refers to steel collectors for heat supply. It is easier to process - the complexity of the installation process of pipes is reduced. The form will not affect the operation of the heating system.

It is only important to calculate the collector for a specific heating, taking into account all factors. For the traditional scheme, it is best to make steel structures, as they have a long service life and are less susceptible to breakdowns than polymer counterparts. In the water warmth floor, both polypropylene collectors for heat supply and steel are successfully used.

The procedure for making the distribution comb.

Often refuse to make a welded collector for heat supply yourself. This is due to the lack of an appropriate tool. An alternative method of manufacture is the purchase of individual components. It is best to choose elements from one manufacturer. Thus, it is possible to ensure reliable design work.

In the manufacture of a polypropylene comb, it is advisable to use pipes of large diameter. They must have a reinforcing layer. Otherwise, temperature deformation is possible.

Installation of the collector in the heating system

Before installing the heating manifold, its tightness and reliability is once again checked. Installation is performed according to a predetermined scheme. The conditions for connecting the design to the heating system depend on the making material of the comb.

Homemade distribution manifold

It is important not only to make the design correctly, but also perform a competent connection of the heating manifold. Mounting technology depends on the type of equipment used. In addition to compliance with the level during installation, it is necessary to take into account the following nuances:

• Electric and gas boilers. They will be connected to the upper or lower nozzles;
• Circulation pump. It is installed only from the end of the structure;
• Heating contours. Connected in the upper or lower part of the collector;
• Inspected heating tanks and solid fuel boilers are installed only in the side part.

For a warm water floor system, it is necessary to provide a protective box in which the collector will be located. Without it, the likelihood of damage to individual components increases.

It should be remembered that even with small disorders in the process of manufacturing a collector, the chance of improper operation of the heating system increases. Therefore, after installing the comb, it is recommended to hold a number of test starts of heating to identify explicit and hidden shortcomings of the system.

In the video material you can get acquainted with an example of a homemade reservoir of heating:

http://strojdvor.ru.

Types and methods for connecting the heating distribution manifold

The collector serves in the technological and engineering equipment of buildings for distribution of fluids from the main line on various contours and collection in the event of circulation turnover, mixing flows from parallel branches. In modern plumbing communications, collector schemes are increasingly replacing the usual layout types. The heating manifold allows you to significantly improve the characteristics and properties of systems for the heating of buildings of any type.

Types of collectors in heating systems

The fundamental device of the heating manifold is pretty simple: it is a segment of a pipe with a certain number of lateral and end taps designed to connect separate contours.

The collector can be equipped with an air vent, security group, manual or automatic flow control devices, a mixing node, which gives it the functions of an automated control of the heating system.

Used only in modern closed circulating heating systems. References for heating and designs are divided into several main types:

solar collector

The solar collector sends the energy of the shone on economic needs. Taking into account the current cost of equipment, the use of solar collectors as the main source of heating for the conditions of Russia is unprofitable, even in the southern regions.

The economically justified scope of their application today is the preparation of hot water for water supply in non-gey-fed areas with a sufficient level of solar radiation.

In the summer, the solar panels can fully take on this task, so that the heating boiler can be turned off for several months.

In the solar panels, the collector also serves as a heat exchanger and has a different structure than in conventional heating systems.

Each register, located inside the vacuum tube, is a closed circuit filled with a liquid agent passing through the collector.

After evaporated, the agent rises to the heat exchanger located above and heats the coolant circulating on it. Cooling, lowers down, cycle repeats

Hydroattelot

Hydroathek (hydrotrator, hydrocollector, thermohydraulic distributor) is designed for hydrodynamic balancing of the heating system: leveling pressure and heat carrier temperature in various heating circuits.

The hydroplator provides an optimal temperature difference between feeding and reverse, while the streams can be mixed to the desired degree. This provides, in addition to stable temperatures in rooms, gentle mode of operation of the boiler equipment

The hydroelectron is used primarily in complex heating systems with several heating circuits, on the one hand, the contour of the heating boiler is connected, on the other - radiator heating, warm floors, hot water supply, water heating in the pool, etc.

In factory hydrodents, flow separators and additional dirt and air removal devices are installed

The optimal operation of the large house heating system with a thermohydrogenator can be achieved when each of the circuits is equipped with its own pump. It is a large-diameter camshaft, installed vertically in the boiler room.

Homemade hydroelectricity made of square steel tube with welded fittings. Circulation for each of the circuits is carried out by its own pump

Distribution manifold

The heating collector, separating the flow of the coolant directly according to the heating devices, is the most common type.

It consists of two distributors (rowing), on the first coolant enters the heating devices, the second is given back to the boiler.

At the end of each rowing, there is a connection to the feed / reverse highway, along the housing - fittings for individual devices that can be the heating batteries or loops (contours) of a warm floor.

Connecting radiator heating through a heating camshaft, in contrast to the usual one and two-pipe circuits, is not sequentially, but in parallel. The temperature of the coolant entering different branches is the same.

The heating of each radiator (or group of radiators of one contour) can be set from zero to a maximum, while the mutual influence of the instruments does not occur.

The collector layout scheme allows you to accurately establish and stably maintain the desired temperature in each room.

There are collectors "Two in one", combining hydraulic and distribution rowing

As for warm floors: if the number of branches is two or more, connecting through the rowing is the only possible scheme. Only it will provide a well-coordinated system.

In different rooms and zones, as well as so that the hydraulic resistance in warm floors in the pipes is not too high, the pipes are separated into separate contours of no more than 80 m.

The collector for a warm floor is mandatory completed with a separate pump and a mixing unit that supports optimum temperature for floors and an increase of more than 40 ºС excluding its increase.

Installation of a heating manifold in a house or apartment can be carried out hidden, in a special cabinet placed in niche

Collective heating systems - Energy and fuel savings

Collector schemes have obvious advantages over traditional:

• The ability to accurately establish and stably maintain the specified temperature in each room or zone.
• Saving fuel due to the correct distribution of heat fluxes.
• Pipes of small diameters are used, which are easy to hide into the screed.

The only deficiency of the collector system is somewhat much cost due to the high flow of pipes.

Distributive collectors are installed not only in the house or in the apartment, but also in the centralized boiler room, the heat suite of the apartment building. The contours in this case are apartments or individual buildings.

The greatest economic effect at high thermal comfort is observed in branched heating systems, where heat flows are stepped up through collectors, and each of the contours has its own circulation pump and the automation complex.

Two-stage collector diagram of a private residential building, which includes five collectors. In the boiler room there is a hydro-stroke, and on each of the two floors - the rowing of radiator wiring and warm floors

How to choose a distribution manifold

Combining collector rowers are constructively similar: internal diameter, thread sizes on fittings standard. Connection can be calculated for several types of pipes and connecting diameters. The number of fittings, their number can be from 2 to 12.

Rowing without problems can be connected to each other, gaining the required amount of taps, if there is no finished item for sale. The collector for a warm floor should have a stream and temperature adjustment devices on each branch. Manual or automatic - the question of comfort and prices.

For radiators, this is optional - control can be installed on the battery itself. Automation can be added or replaced and later, if you need.

What material to give preference

According to the material from which the rowers are made, collectors are the following types:

• Steel (stainless steel) - extremely durable (almost eternal) and very expensive. For those who are not used to and have the opportunity not to save on quality. Stainless steel rowers are able to withstand large pressure and used in food-made technological systems (dairy products, juices, drinking water, etc.).

Collector from stainless steel for radiator wiring with adjustable valves, air udaler and finishing nuts from the end for a ball valve

• Brass - have high characteristics at a relatively moderate price. The most popular type.

The collector assembled from brass rowers - the budget "Golden Middle" for the price and quality

• Polymer rowers are inexpensive, but inferior to brethren from metals in all characteristics.

Rowing from polypropylene is available for the price, however, due to low strength and not the best indicators of temperature expansion for heating, it is infrequent

If desired of plastic, it is easy to assemble a distribution manifold of heating with your own hands.

A completely neat homemade heating collector collected from standard tees will cost quite inexpensive. However, the time for its manufacture will have to spend

There are craftsmen, manufacturing a collector for heating with their own hands from the usual metal, but this is a controversial solution. First, rust inevitably falls into the system, secondly, it is very laborious.

note

In conclusion, we note that not only the thermal comfort of your home, but also the efficiency of the heating system will depend on the quality of design and installation. So that your funds invested are used with the maximum sense, trust these works only by experienced, proven masters.

Order delivery and installation of heating systems here: http://morozu.net/

Video: Application of the collector system

Distribution manifold for heating with your own hands: Principle of operation, installation, advantages, disadvantages, photos and videos

Rating: 552.

The collector heating system and its various options are becoming increasingly popular with residents of private houses.

A large plus collector systems are that the feeding and reverse heating pipes can be hidden to the floor, and the collector itself can be placed in a basement or to the center of the house, so as not to spoil the look and provide comfort.

And the ability to install a distribution manifold for heating with your own hands is the main reason for the popularity of this system.

Principle of operation

By installing a collector wiring in heating, you will save comfort in your home, because it is able to evenly distribute heat all over the apartment and hold the stable temperature regime. The thermostat will ensure complete management of energy spending in the collector system.

Collector diagram of heating two-storey house

In the collector system of heating of the room, heat is evenly distributed, the constant temperature modes is maintained and, as a result, comfort for residents of the house is ensured.

The circulation pump must be installed in any system with collector heating to eliminate the difference between temperatures at the beginning and at the end of the system, which will provide high-quality heating.

Before installing a distribution manifold of heating with your own hands, you must carefully familiarize yourself with the main components and functions of each of them. The ball valve must be mounted in each device withdrawal to ensure that the heating devices are cut without direct impact on the system itself.

In each floor of the main riser, the feeding and reverse collectors should be installed, in which the pipes are mounted, after which they go to the floor or in the walls and are connected to all batteries. All devices must have the heating air vent or adjusting valves, if the feed pipes and reverse stroke are mounted in the floor coating screed.

Heated room with batteries

The connection of radiators also has several types: diagonal, upper and lower, lateral, and also with internal circulation. The lower connection of the radiator is used most often. This type of battery connection is mounted under the floor or plinth.

Heating floor in the house

If you do not want to use the heating batteries, then you need to very accurately distribute heat supply. In this case, the heat rings closes and go to the floor, for its heating. Such a heating system was not considered the main, but at the moment it was popularly acquired thanks to the ability to make the floor in the house warm and cozy.

Warm floor pipe

Advantages of solar energy

An extraordinary way of heating the room. With clear weather, the sun produces 1200 watts of energy per square meter. meter. Thus, per day can be one meter square get 10 kWh-hours of energy, with sun weather.

Such solar collectors appeared precisely thanks to these calculations, which in turn are aircraft (the greenhouse effect is used), mobile (drives watching the sun and move behind it to directly enter the rays), flat, tubular, vacuum, and also exist solar hubs.

Installation of equipment

The heating devices are attached to the distribution manifold with two tubes - direct and reverse, which is the main characteristic of the wiring of such accumulation systems. The collector is an installation that collects water, which he subsequently heats up and starts through the pipes.

The place to install the collector unit is chosen, as a rule, at the layout of the entire system. Usually, the collector is installed in a special niche, which is located low from the floor. Corridor, pantry, any place where there is no humidity, can serve as a niche.

Corrector correct installation

This unit can be fixed on the wall by mounting or placed in a special collector locker (metal box, which is adapted to the installation of pipes and doors using a stamping on the boxes of the box). Special spare parts securing the block can be inside the cabinet.

Comfort, efficiency and reliability are guaranteed if, installing a collector wiring, all execute strictly according to the instructions. As few compounds and tees can contribute to the ability to minimize the possibilities. The so-called hidden layout can also be installed.

Please note that the collector wiring will work exclusively with the circulation pump and you will need a lot of pipes, because all radiators must have their separate eyeliner.

For the strapping you need a lot of pipes

With the installation of the collector heating system, it is necessary to take into account that all thermal rings must be the same length with each other. If there is no such possibility, all rings must be equipped with a pump and systems that regulate the temperature. The adjustment, mounted on one ring, will also affect others.

disadvantages

The high price is the only and most significant disadvantage of the collector layout of the home heating, one of the most expensive heating methods.

As for other minuses, the heating comb, made by their own hands, should include the presence of a circulation pump, otherwise it simply will not work.

Many pipes will also need, because each heating device must connect to the collector.

Collect and mount this system and the heating manifold itself requires considerable labor in comparison with the mounting of other systems, this is the reason for the considerable cost of the process.

However, the system justifies the price - it is characterized by high reliability and comfort compared to other heating systems.

As mentioned earlier, the system of heating collectors is popular, despite the high costs and disadvantages, because in case the buildup of the building has limitations, it is better to invest it in the installation of a reliable heating system than to reject the consequences of unreliable.

Didn't get the answer to your question? Ask our expert: ask

What is it needed for

When installing water supply systems, there is a rule: the total diameter of all the melts should not exceed the diameter of the feed pipe. With regard to heating equipment, this rule looks like this: if the diameter of the outlet of the boiler is 1 inches, then the system is allowed in the system with a diameter of ½ inches pipe. For a small house, heated only with radiators, such a system will work efficiently.

In fact, heating contours in a private house or cottage can be more: warm floors. Heating of several floors, utility rooms, garage. When they are connected via the system of tanks, the pressure in each circuit will be insufficient for effective heating of radiators, and the temperature in the house will not be comfortable.

Therefore, branched heating systems are performed by collector, this technique allows you to adjust each contour separately and set the desired temperature in each room. So, for the garage, plus 10-15ºС is quite enough, and for the children's child, the temperature is about plus 23-25ºС. In addition, warm floors should not be heated more than 35-37 degrees, otherwise it will be unpleasant to walk, and the flooring can be deformed. With the help of the collector and the shut-off temperature, this problem can be solved.

Video: Applying a collector system for heating at home.

Collector groups for heating systems are sold at a finished form, while they can have different complete set and the number of taps. You can choose a suitable collector assembly and install it with your own hands or with the help of specialists.

However, most industrial models are universal and are not always suitable for the needs of one or another home. Their reworking or refinement can significantly increase costs. Therefore, in most cases it is easier to assemble it from individual blocks with their own hands, given the features of a particular heating system.

Collector group for heating system assembly

The design of the universal collector group is shown in the figure. It consists of two blocks for direct and reverse current of the coolant equipped with the desired amount of taps. At the feed (direct) collector, flowmeters are installed, the hotels are located on the opposite to control the temperature of the reverse water in each contour. With their help, you can establish the required flow rate of the coolant, which will determine the temperature in heating radiators.

The collector camshaft is equipped with a pressure gauge, circulating pump and air valves. The feed and reverse collectors are combined into one block by brackets, which also serve to mount the block to the wall or cabinet. The price of such a block is from 15 to 20 thousand rubles. And if part of the discharges are not involved, it will be clearly inappropriate.

The installation rules of the finished block are shown in the video.

Golding - Collector Knot

The most expensive elements in the collector camshaft - flowmeters and thermal heads. To avoid overpays for unnecessary elements, you can buy a collector assembly, the so-called "comb", and install the necessary regulatory devices with your own hands only where it is necessary.

The rowing is a brass tube with a diameter of 1 or ¾ inch with a certain amount of grooves with a diameter under the heating pipe ½ inches. Between themselves, they are also connected by the bracket. The reverse collector is equipped with plugs that allow you to install thermal heads to all or part of the contours.

Some models can be equipped with cranes, using them can be adjusted manually. Such combs have a cast body and from the ends are equipped with a thread fitting / nut, which allows you to quickly and easily assemble the collector from the required amount of melts.

In order to save the collector for heating systems, you can collect from individual items yourself or completely made with your own hands.

Features of the collector system

Installation of heating systems are carried out before carrying out finishing works on the laying of the floor and wall coating, passing along the floor, the pipeline is tied to a solid metal grid and poured with a screed located on the insulation layer.

Apartment house

The implementation of collector heating in a residential apartment building is practically not used in everyday life, this is primarily due to the presence of radiator heating in buildings in which all rooms in the apartment are heated by batteries. The laying of contours for heating rooms through the floors is related to significant financial expenses and ineffective, moreover, for laying a small amount and a small loop length, a comb is not required. A significant factor that makes the useless assembly of collector heating in an apartment building - unbalanced and disruption of the temperature regime of the entire house system, as a result of which penalties and dismantling of the laid heated floor are possible.

Cottage

Collective combs are the main elements in organizing the heating of country houses and cottages, usually placed in the wall of the rooms located in the center of the house on each floor, connecting to the riser mounted in them.

To do this, in the wall at the construction stage, there is a remission, in which the comb is placed, to increase the aesthetic species to the squeeze in the scenes put a collective cabinet with closing doors.

One contour is used to each room, if there are several radiators in the room, they are connected in series by a single-pipe backway or passage scheme (Leningradka). Several small contours are mounted if the area of \u200b\u200bthe premises is large and the maximum length of the pipeline does not provide its coating with a specified step.

Fig. 14 Combined heating system

Advantages and disadvantages of radiation heating systems

Positive sides

The main advantage of the radiation scheme is ease of use.

Special equipment makes the climate network management as ergonomic and convenient as possible:

1. You can set the temperature of each heating radiator in the house without departing from the collector cabinet. In addition, if necessary, you can completely overlap the water supply to any element of the system without disturbing the performance of the entire heating network.
2. Each pair of pipes connects a collector with only one radiator. Therefore, you can use small diameter pipelines that are easy to disguise under flooring. Among other things, it allows partially to warm the surface of the floor.

Pipes of the radiation heating system are stacked before the fill

1. Through the use of special devices (so-called hydraulic collectors with a large diameter), several heating zones with different coolant temperature can be formalized in the house.

In this case, a short circuit is organized between the feed and reverse nozzles. The heated water is constantly circulating in the hydraulic system, and its fence can be produced at different distances (the temperature will depend on it).

Negative sides

For completeness, the paintings should be said about the minuses of using the radiation system of heating.

It is because of them, despite all the advantages, it is not very common:

1. Highly enlarged consumption of feed and discharge pipes. The smaller house and more complex the geometry of the rooms, the more it is necessary. In addition, the complexity of installation increases, which cannot but affect the estimated cost of construction.

The radiation heating system requires the use of a huge amount of pipes and collectors

1. The need is a hidden installation. If the traditional tee system can be mounted and along the walls, then you can't post a huge number of pipes. They must be hiding under the floor. It is possible to stir up into the walls, but in this case the consumption of the material will increase even more.
2. No joints. When designing pipelines, it is necessary to ensure that the pipe under the floor does not contain a single junction. In this place, gusts occur most often, and the cost of eliminating breakage will be far from low and very laborious.
3. If the system project provides several contours with a different coolant temperature, each of them must be equipped with a circulating pump.

Self-assembly of the heating manifold

Heating collectors are usually supplied by the manufacturer in the assembled form, the circulation electric pump of standard length is set later to the threaded connection of the American type. Sometimes components come to consumers separately, the assembly procedure consists of the following operations:

• Flowometers are installed on the feed comb and screw the terminal air from the right end.
• To the reverse comb with the previously installed caps on the shut-off valves through an American on the right side, the valve is connected.
• On both combs on the left through an American, a split is set to connect the compression electric pump, while they are located in such a way that the fitting to install the thermometer is from the front side.
• In the comb, the breaker screws up the tee to which the thermostatic head is attached.
• With the help of a threaded connection (American) for the installation of circulating electrical pumps and gaskets from the kit, the pump is attached to the upper and lower comb.
• Upon completion of the work on the collector unit, the pipes of standard diameter are connected using euroconuses that are included.

All major compounds are sealed with rubber gaskets, which are included with the block and electric pump, sometimes seals are absent in the tap and tee of the feed comb, then linen drops or other plumbing materials are used for sealing

To carry out the works of a single confusion key, while it is important not to pour nuts - it can lead to rupture of the pads

Fig. 18 PEX and PE-RT pipes

Nuances of homemade work

The main condition for the correct operation of heating is the creation in the hydraulic balance system. An annular header for heating should have the same transmittance ability of the incoming nozzle (the cross-section of the main pipe, which is supplied to the feed line) as the sum of the same indicators in all circuits. For example, for a system with 4 contour, it looks like this:

D \u003d d1 + d2 + d3 + d4

Making a heating manifold with your own hands, remember that the distance between the feed and reverse section of the pipe should be a value equal to at least six ridge diameters.

When installing the device takes into account the following nuances:

• electric boiler or gas boiler connect to upper or lower pipes
• circulation pump crashes only with the end side of the comb
• heating contours are summarized to the top or bottom of the collector.

For home heating with a large area, circulation pumps are installed on each contour. In addition, to select the optimal coolant volume, an additional equipment is installed on each inlet and outlet nozzle - balancing flow meters and adjustment valves. These devices limit the inflow of hot fluid to a single pipe.

So that the boiler room collector performs the functions assigned to it in full, it is necessary that the length of all the contours of it was approximately one length.

You can additionally (but optionally) in the manufacture of heating collectors to equip the mixing unit. It consists of pipes that connect the inlet and reverse comb. In this case, to regulate the amount of cold and hot water in percentage ratio, two or three-way valve are mounted. It is controlled by a closed-type servo, which receives a signal from the temperature sensor installed in the heating circuit.

The whole design allows you to adjust the temperature of heating of one or another room or a separate circuit. If there is too hot water to the collector in the boiler room, then the influx of cold liquid increases.

For a complex heating system, in which several collectors are installed, the hydraulic is installed. It improves the operation of the camshaft.

A collector for the boiler room, which you manufacture yourself will provide the normal functioning of heating only in the case of an accurate selection of system stroke parameters. Therefore, you first need to entrust the calculations to a professional, and then already start work.

Remember that comfortable temperature in the house depends on the set of factors. Only a fully balanced system will ensure the correct operation of heating.

Definitions

The collector (comb) is the type of plumbing reinforcement, which through the contours of consumers distributes the coolant. Simply put, it is a thick tube that has one input and several outputs. Its appearance contributed to the complication of heating systems, the spread of flooring and radiator wiring, an increase in the number of heat consumption points in the house.

Heating manifold. Click on the photo to enlarge.

The coolant on the main highway comes from the boiler room to the floor collectors. They have such a number of inputs / outputs, which corresponds to the number of consumers of thermal energy (radiators, convectors, etc.) on the floor.
Unlike a sequential connection (with tees), the collector heating system is characterized by an independent eyeliner to each heating device. Such a scheme makes it possible to control the temperature regime of each radiator, if necessary, allowing it to turn it off without damage to the remaining heat devices. For this, each removal of the collector is supplied with its locking reinforcement.

A mixed layout is possible when several small contours with independent control are connected to the collector. In this case, within each contour, a sequential system of connecting heating devices is applied. If there is a collector, the heating scheme becomes easier, allowing you to abandon seals, additional shut-off and regulating reinforcement. Using collectors and collector nodes, you can significantly reduce costs when designing, installing and adjusting the heating system.

Is it possible to make a heating collector with their own hands

Sometimes it happens that autonomous heating in your own home is not working very effectively. It seems that the capacity of the boiler is chosen correctly, and the pipe wiring is made competently, and all installation work is carried out at a professional level, and the temperature in the house is not the same as you would like. What to do in this case? Output one - install the distribution manifold. By the way, there is no need to buy it in the finished form, the design of the collector is not very difficult, so it is not the biggest problem on its own. So, in this article we will answer one question how to make a distribution collector with your own hands?

Types of collectors

The collector can be connected from two to twelve contours, and during the system of the system the number of circuits involved can vary.

Currently, the distribution unit for heating can be made of the following materials:

1. polymers;
2. copper;
3. brass;
4. steel.

For convenience, basic types of collectors can be equipped with additional options, among them:

• thermostat;
• pressure control detector in contours;
• automation to protect against emergency situations;
• air duct valves;
• programmable mixers;
• electronic valves.

How to design a collector

Designing the heating collector is not so difficult. The device is simple, and it is not necessary to have a sketch and subsequent drawing with special knowledge in the plumbing. Let's wonder what you need to consider when creating:

what material you plan to use;

System System with Collector

Remember! Metal is the most optimal option under the heating collector, because this material has a high resistance to high temperatures, durable and reliable in operation, fairly simple when installing, as well as unpretentious in care.

how many chains you need - how many consumers of the coolant the heating collector should provide.

Having calculated all this, you can proceed to creating a sketch of the future product.

1. Take a sheet of paper and draw two rectangles parallel to each other - this will be the basis for the heating manifold.
2. Picture on the ends the foundations for the boiler and boiler.
3. Draw the number of pipes that will approach hot and cold tanks.
4. Then we derive from the hot tank the desired number of pipes for all elements in need of the coolant.

At this, the creation of the project comes to an end, now transfer the drawing under the collector of the private house on the blank sheet of paper and mark the diameter of your pipes there. After that, you can start picking materials to mount the collector for heating with your own hands in your own home.

Selection of pipes

The reservoir heating system should be equipped with pipes selected in accordance with certain requirements:

1. It is best if the pipe is in the bay, since the optimal choice for collector wiring is the lack of compounds.
2. The material should be resistant to corrosion, pipes must serve for many years. The reason for this requirement is the same as in the first paragraph: the possibility of premature intervention in the monolithic screed must be minimized.
3. The material must be flexible enough, as the pipes are not always paced according to the perfect straight line.
4. The characteristics of thermal durability and tensile strength are dictated by the medium in which the heating system is functioning. For a private house, the recommended indicators are approximately as follows: pressure - up to 1.5 atmospheres, temperatures - up to 75 degrees for batteries and up to 40 degrees for a warm floors. If we are talking about an apartment building, maximum possible indicators should be higher: pressure - up to 15 atmospheres, temperature - up to 110-120 degrees above zero.

Multi-storey building

In this case, the best choice is a corrugated pipe from a stainless steel. The technical capabilities of this material make it possible to successfully cope with the loads: the temperature of the coolant to 110 degrees above zero, pressure level up to 15 atmospheres, pressure pressure to 210 kilograms per square centimeter.

Stainless steel pipe is characterized by good flexibility, since the bend radius can reach the product diameter. Mounting works are performed according to a simple algorithm: the pipe is sent to the fitting and fixed with a nut.

A private house

The use of stainless steel is expensive. Since the autonomous heating system is characterized by predictable performance, it is possible to go on a more accessible path in financially using stitched polyethylene. Polyethylene pipes are sold in bays of 200 meters. The material is able to withstand temperatures up to 95 degrees, and in the short-term moment and up to 110 degrees above zero. The permissible level of pressure on destruction is 10 kilograms-forces per square centimeter.

Fittings for polyethylene pipes are made of plastic or brass. Each fitting is equipped with a locking ring that is rolled onto the pipe. The feature of stitched polyethylene is memory for mechanical exposure: if the material is stretched with the help of extender, and in the clearance to install a fitting, after a short time the pipe firmly does this item. Connection fixation is carried out by a locking ring.

What is the heating collector

The heating collector is called a device whose task is the correct distribution of the coolant along the heating system of the private house. The collector helps rationalize heating housing, allowing you to spend less on fuel consumption, therefore, save money. He is:

• two pipes for hot and spent coolant;
• pipes by which liquid will be distributed to all elements of the heating system;
• pipes intended to return the cooled coolant back to the boiler;
• pumps;
• regulators.

Such a device is usually made of metal pipes, but the price of such products will be quite high, because if your room is large, then a lot of material is needed.

Heating collector

Tip: If the budget does not allow you to connect each element to the reservoir for heating, there is an option to use polypropylene tubes.

The advantage of such a device is:

• uniform distribution of the coolant in the pipeline;
• full warming of the entire room, and not only certain places;
• improving the efficiency of the hydraulic heating system;
• reduction of fuel consumption;
• the ability to adjust to the collector additional taps for the pipeline if you want to add elements to the wiring.

Mount the collector on the heating system is best in a special locker, which will protect, and hide the system from dust or other influences. It is desirable that such an aggregate is mounted in a boiler room or separate room, but nothing terrible will happen if you just secure the collector on the wall near the heating boiler.

Collectors for radiators and a warm floor

The difference between the floor collector from the radiator consists in a constructive design associated with the difference in operating temperatures and lower hydraulic resistance of the elements of radiators. The design of the unit for connecting the warm floors is much more complicated, it includes a large number of adjusting plumbing reinforcement and circulation pump for multi-mounted systems.

The standard collector unit for household radiators has a simple version: it consists of a feed and reverse collectors of a large cross section, from which fittings come out to connect pipes that go to radiators. No adjustment, tuning valves and other complex devices, the device usually does not have, so its connection and installation does not cause difficulties in most homeowners. The heating radiators are connected to the block through the pipes passing in the floor, and are connected from the bottom at one point, to place the direct pipeline it is not necessary to make a screed, it can be put in the stroke, cut or knocked in the stove.

A typical collector unit is a technically complex element with a large number of adjustments and settings, a circular electric pump is mounted in the system. When installing a block, distinguishes the rivets of direct and feed feed, for convenience they are marked with red and blue paints. Also, in a straight line, adjustable flowmeters with a transparent cap and applied divisions indicating the volume passing through them, it is marked with an internal indicator head of red.

Typically, the maximum value of the flow of the flow does not exceed 5 cubic meters per hour (corresponds to the division 5 on the cap), the minimum marker is 0.5. If the indicator heads are in the upper part, then when the water flow is passed through the feed comb, the indicator is lowered and shows the volume of the passing fluid. Sometimes the heads are located below, in this case the stream moves in the opposite direction from the heating circuit in the comb and respectively flow meters are installed in the return feed bar.

The standard block provides a place for the arrangement of the thermostat sensor, there are exhaust valves for airbagging in the feed and reverse comb, valves are installed on the site of which places for servo drives performing automatic control of operation modes.

Fig. 11 Hydrostroll - Installation and Connection Scheme

Why do you need a distribution manifold of the heating system

A complex and branched heating system with a liquid coolant implies the correct organization of movement of streams by numerous contours. Only in this case, the heating of the house will be efficient and manageable. But not to put a separate boiler in every room - it is much easier to use collectors in the scheme, which will distribute the heated flow with the required indicators to the heating devices. They will not only be able to control the temperature of the circulating fluid, but also provide its uniform feed on all connected branches.

The distribution collector externally resembles a hollow bulk comb, in the base of which the total coolant flow comes, and then divided into separate sleeves in the side nozzles and sent over all existing channels. Exactly the same node collects back the entire waste liquid and serves it on the boiler, a closer cycle. Thanks to this scheme, one water heater can be connected to heating devices with different characteristics: to the capacity of the DHW drive, warm floors, classic radiators.

Each manifold nozzle is equipped with thermostatic head valves. Depending on the specified heating indicators, they dose hot and cold water in those systems where its pre-mixing is required. For example, a warm floor operates in total at + 40-50 ° C, and for wall radiators, a temperature is needed no less than +80 ° C. The heating manifold should skip the hot stream on the batteries unchanged, and in sections for floor threads dilute it with cold water. For this, the feed valve on its site partially overlaps the "red" pipe, reducing its cross section.

Sly meter that saves electricity for 2 months!

The use of a comb simplifies the design of the branched system, refusing additional pumps and thermostatic valves. All that is necessary for normal operation of heating turns out to be collected in one place - it is easier to customize and maintain a complex circuit. In addition, almost any distribution collector has a built-in end air vent, which allows removed bubbles from pipes that reduce the efficiency of heating.

Color-ray heating system

The collector in the heating system of radiation type.

Considering the heating manifold should be treated with the consideration of the radiation scheme of the coolant wiring, it will be easier to understand its basic functions and dignity.

As you know, there are three main types of pipe wiring.

1. Single-tube scheme. Here the radiators are included in consistently, that is, the coolant is fed to the first device, then passes through the battery and comes to the next, gradually passing through the entire outline and returning to the boiler. Obviously, after each radiator, water cools, and heating the batteries is unevenly;
2. Two-pipe scheme. This solution provides for the supply of water on one pipe, and the discharge - on the second, that is, the contour consists of two highways, between which the radiators are included in parallel. Such a scheme allows you to warm up the instruments more evenly;
3. Radiation scheme. The coolant is fed to the distribution unit (collector of the heating system), from where it comes from each radiator on a separate pipe, and then returns backwards backwards, it is going to be combined and enters the boiler. Thus, it is possible to achieve the most uniform distribution of heat indoors.

One-tube and two-pipe layout scheme.

Radu wiring scheme.

Important! As you can see, there are many contours in the radiation scheme, one by one battery. Therefore, for normal operation of the system, a circulation pump is needed, which can provide the necessary pressure parameters and coolant circulation rates

The radiation scheme allows you to maximally warm each separate radiator, moreover, it makes it possible to adjust the heat supply intensity into each battery.

Cabinet collector for radiator heating with feed and reverse combs.

Also in such a scheme, you can turn off any device without changes in the operation of the entire system, and in multi-storey houses you can turn off entire floors without the feeding of the coolant in the rest of the building sections.

To implement these advantages, the heating collectors are used, which are included in the distribution unit in the form of a pair of instruments - feed and reverse comb. The removal of the heating manifold by locking reinforcement, air and drain cranes, flow meters and thermostatic heads allows you to automatically adjust the temperature modes on each separate heating device.

The use of flow meters allows you to adjust the feed.

Important! Most often, such a wiring is used when building off the heating systems of private houses and cottages, however, you can apply this scheme and in the conditions of an apartment with a centralized supply of the coolant. It should be remembered that the pipes are best under the floor

Another advantage of the radiation layout is the ability to hide the pipeline under the plinth or in the thick of the floor. Often it is this feature that affects the selection of the wiring scheme.

In the "Warm floor" system, a collector for floor heating systems are required.

Also, it is impossible not to mention such a system as "warm floor". Here, the contours are not connected to radiators, and are placed in a special way in the tie of the floor in order to warm it up.

The only significant disadvantage of this solution is the high price of materials and works.

Choosing pipes

Although pipelines from various materials can be used for water supply and contour device, it is mainly used by polymers that are supplied in bays of various lengths and easily bend when laying loops.

The main materials of the heating pipelines are: PEX stitched polyethylene metal-plastic with an aluminum layer between the inner and outer shells, stitched PEX and heat-resistant PE-RT polyethylene.

It should be noted that the metalplastic is not too practical as a material for warm floors - due to the high stiffness, it is difficult to be flexing with a small radius, and the mechanical effect on the surface during the installation or before laying the screed leads to bends and breaks. Repair the pipeline from metal plastic can be inserted by a portion connected with compression or crimping fittings - this leads to a decrease in the passage channel and an increase in hydraulic resistance.

Stitched and heat-resistant polyethylene pipes have the same service life of about 50 years, it is believed that the PE-RT pipeline is easier to mount in low temperatures, and when it is damaged it is easy to repair soldering, although the technology is not too well known. Also, the cost of PE-RT is below the crosslied PEX polyethylene, although there are enough products of both categories at the construction market at a relatively low price.

Fig. 19 Basic laying of pipes for heated floor

Ready-made designs for heating

The construction market presents products of various manufacturers of collector heating equipment, among them there are such popular brands such as Profline, Valtec, Luxor, Rehay, Shout.

The most frequently used materials in the manufacture of collectors - stainless steel and chrome brass, much less often in domestic heating equipment is selected from budget polymers (polypropylene), which do not provide for the installation of flow meters and valves for servo drives.

Fig. 16 Program Audytor C.O. 4.0

The principle of operation of the collector system

The collector system works on the following principle: the coolant heated with a boiler with the help of a circulating electric pump installed between the feed and reverse line enters the collector camshaft, to the output fittings of which the heating contours are connected. The total temperature of the coolant in all circuits is installed by the thermostat placed on the input fitting of the feed comb, and each tap to the loop is equipped with a flow meter, with which the volume of the coolant passing along the contour is manually installed.

After passing through the contours, the cooled coolant enters the reverse line and pushed by the electric pump to the boiler in which it is heating. Circulating in a circle, the heated fluid returns to the feed collector, which distributes it according to individual heating circuits.

In most designs, the distribution nodes of the reverse line are equipped with shut-off valves - it allows them to install electrical servo drives to automatically adjust the flow passing through contours.

Fig. 2 Principle of collector heating device

Calculation of collector heating

Homeowner There is no need to calculate the parameters of the collector (its passage diameter, length, section of the outlet fittings) and the diameter of the pipes when purchasing a standard product. If you wish to produce such calculations, you can detect the necessary formulas on the network, although in this case it is easier to navigate to the standard dimensional parameters of the produced factory products.

The main task of calculations is to determine the length of the pipes to provide the required temperature in the room with the well-known temperature characteristics of the coolant. To do this, there is no need to resort to complex engineering calculations, which can be carried out for only narrow heating specialists, it is easier to use an online calculator or a computer program for an ordinary manual.

In order to obtain the desired result, the initial data is introduced into the program or calculator on the required temperature in the room and its area, diameter and the layout of the pipes, the carrier temperature. On the Internet, you can find reviews for the calculations of Audytor CO from Sankom, the company Valtek from the company of the same name, Raucad / Rauwin 7.0 from Rehau.

The term "collector" is called a node or a device, which is a piece of a pipe with a plurality of taps making it similar to the comb (hence the name "Comb"). Through it, the streams of liquid coolant with different temperatures can be mounted until the specified parameters are reached, and then distributed over contours.

The system should have two such rowers - on the feed pipe, and on the reverse. One takes a coolant from the boiler and doses it by directing it into the contours, and the second, collects these threads on the way back and returns to the bowl for Diagurev.

1. To control flows on the rowers there is fittings with dosage valves. It is connected to a pressure gauge for pressure control. In some systems, the pump can also be included by which the water circulation in the system is carried out.
2. The rowing band is somewhat more than that of the main pipeline, the diameter (it is determined by the calculation). When entering the collector, the coolant speed decreases, which makes it possible to redistribute the flow or change the trajectory of its movement.
3. The radiator heating and the heated floor should have their own individual collectors to which branches leading to a particular room or different floors are connected.
4. If necessary, one branch can be blocked, or simply reduce the temperature of the coolant supplied to it, without affecting the characteristics of other contours.

Note! Alternatively, you can install such a node assembly, as in the photo, which is called the hydraulic arrow.

On a note! If the repair is required, it is enough to turn off only one contour, not touching the rest. This will also reduce the operating costs of the system, when no one lives in the room (for example, guest), and there is no need for its constant heating.

Features of the distribution of the coolant

The heating distribution unit is always individual in structure, since standardization is inappropriate here. Modification can be anyone and must be adapted to the technical device and other characteristics of the system, which may contain completely different complete variations of instruments and fittings.

The easiest option is when there are no devices at all, and there is only the simplest comb with two-three outputs. In such a system, you can only shut down one of the contours, and here control the volume and temperature of the coolant fluid is not provided.

Yes, it is not always necessary. For example, in a small cottage heating system, in which the heating of the coolant provides a gas-operating boiler. Usually it itself performs the functions of the controller, since almost all modern models are equipped with appropriate devices.

Heating boilers for a private house (especially gas outdoor) are popular in different countries of the world, including us. All these products have a similar appearance, but still differ among themselves according to the characteristics. In order to acquire the optimal option, consider the main criteria for choosing boilers.

In large branched systems, advanced manifolds are installed, which are equipped with a full set of control fittings: a thermostat, a sensor and pressure regulator, mixing valves and air vent. The equipment varies, and it is from it that the cost of the node depends.

In the house, in which, in addition to radiator heating, there is also a heated, the distribution unit may look like in the photo: the left collector on the radiator contours, to the right to heated floors, and in the middle of the mixing unit, the center of which is the circulation of the pump.

If the house has several levels, the collector nodes are installed on each floor. The installation location is selected, where you can provide the same eyeliner to each radiator.

The length of the contour should not exceed 120 m - with a larger value, an additional collector group is formed. In addition, more extended tracks must be completed by the pump, as the coolant in them will be faster.

Depending on the specific conditions, the rowing on the connection type is selected. It can be upper or diagonal, but preference is more often given by the bottom, in which the wiring can be hidden in the structure of the floor or plinth. The node usually hides in a special cabinet, or niche is placed in the wall in the wall.

As for the hydrostrals: they are mounted on large objects with a large number of contours, when it is necessary to compensate for the loss of not only temperature, but also the volume of the coolant. This is achieved at the expense of its secondary circulation, but this possibility will only be available on each contour of its own pump.

In fact, through one hydraulic system, you can equip several nodes independent from each other, each of which has its own working settings. But the usual "awkward" collector allows you to save stable in the system, even if several cranes are open at once.

What to navigate when choosing

The cost of a separate rowing or a solid collector assembly depends not only on the power of the device or its equipment, but also on the material of the manufacture. The most expensive - stainless steel products, slightly cheaper brass.

The most affordable is the rowing of polyethylene (connected by fittings) and polypropylene (soldering for connections). They are easy and easy to install, but the inability of polymers to withstand high temperatures is a significant disadvantage limiting the scope of products.

On a note! The selection of this or that option is carried out not only for cost considerations, but also depending on which pipes are mounted. Ideal when all the elements of the system are assembled from the same type of material - and even better if they are also from one manufacturer.

In addition to the discovers to the contours, the rowing has a docking hole with a pipe and a plug, in which the valve for air release can be mounted. Having it, one product can be attached to another, making one whole unit, without using adapters.

After deciding with the material, you should pay attention to the technical parameters of products. Among them are not only the number of connection circuits, but also:

1. Bandwidth.
2. Maximum allowable pressure (working).
3. Manufacturing control devices and degree of automation.
4. Armor distance contour.
5. Minimum and maximum temperature (working).

Collective nodes assembled can be sold and included with the installation cabinet. But in principle, you can not only collect the cabinet, but also the collector himself.

Prices for collectors for water supply and heating systems

Collectors for water supply and heating systems

Video - collectors for radiators and a warm floor

Assembling factory collector

Consider to start on a specific example, which consists of a ready-made distribution unit from the manufacturer.

Table 1. Assembling the factory manifold.

Video is a collector for a warm floor and heating. Browse, assembly and installation of the collector unit from Stout

Build homemade collector

The easiest thing is, of course, to buy a ready knot - if, of course, you are able to lay out several thousand rubles for him. If not, you can get all the elements of the node individually with the same success and assemble it yourself. If this is a polypropylene version, you will need a special soldering iron and scissors for cutting pipes.

Prices for scissors for cutting polypropylene pipes

Polypropylene pipe cutting scissors

All the same can be done by taking the basis and metal parts - the only difference is that they will be going to threaded connections. Otherwise, the whole principle of collector assembly is the same as in the case of the factory node, which we introduced in the previous chapter.

Prices for soldering iron for polypropylene pipes

Soldering iron for polypropylene pipes

Video - homemade heating manifold

The established work of any heating system is a residential building or apartment, is a key issue and, accordingly, the task that each is inclined to solve in its own way. To date, the most common way to achieve the most productive functioning of heating systems can be called the use of distribution manifolds, the main task of which consists in the most proportional distribution of thermal flows secured by various coolants. In addition, this technology has a lot of other advantages and features that this article will be devoted to.

What is a distribution manifold heating

By the way, among the most adapted collectors for our country are products of the European brand Stout. Collectors are produced on high-tech equipment at the factory in Italy. Strict quality control at all stages of production allows the consumer to be completely confident in quality.

Stout collectors are manufactured in the same factories, where products from the famous brands of the Premium segment are significantly cheaper. Savings are achieved due to the absence of the need to overpay for the "promotion" of the brand and its "status".

If the above moments are not primary for you, and you are ready to terms with them, you can proceed to the immediate choice of the heating distribution manifold. To pay attention should not so much on the material from which it is made as on the technical parameters that are listed below:

It will be just wonderful if you understand everything in all of the above, but as practice shows, only specialists in the art can be made the most correct calculation of all parameters, which will help not only with the choice, but also with the subsequent establishment of the system.

Best manufacturers

No matter how cool, but to save on a similar device will not clearly fail, since such savings can turn into even greater costs for repairs and reinstall the poor-quality collector system. So trust best Verified time and consumer opinioncompanies, among whom the leading positions occupy German companies OVENTROP. and Rehau.

Based on the foregoing, it can be concluded that an unconditionally collective heating system deserves due attention and all costs associated with it will pay off with high-quality and rational heatingtotal residential space. But in order to achieve such an effect, it is necessary to professionally and responsibly approach the selection and installation of a similar device.

Collective knot Rehau - video