Hello,
I have exposed heating pipes in the basement. I feel like they emit a lot of heat, so I'd like to insulate them with the material shown in the picture. Is this permitted, or does it pose a fire hazard?
The pipes themselves are already very hot…
and should I also insulate the “cold pipe”?
Thank you
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There is no need to isolate pipes in heated rooms. They only act as an increase in the heating surface, since they are connected to your heater. So you can just make a cover like a wooden strip or something. You can paint the pipes.
Insulation of cables is even mandatory after GEG – where it makes sense: pipe insulation after the GEG – The insulation professional. Depending on the position of the tube, the insulation thickness is different (see table in the link).
But don’t start immediately, because in non-heated cellar rooms (i.e. without a separate radiator), it can be quite important to have a “basic heat” in the room for reasons of construction physics in order to keep the outer walls dry.
How is the space used (is the laminate) and is the wall an outer wall?
Hi, thank you for your answer! the room is used as a hobby room and has its own radiator. The heating pipes run through the whole space to the External walls to said radiator. The floor – I am not a professional – but I assume that this is not a laminate.
If the house is not just a monumental monument (so it is quite old), it should not be a problem to isolate the lines with a commercially available tube insulation. In any case, you save energy costs, but you should always put the hobby room free of frost on the thermostat – just because of the safety, since I do not know the insulation structure of the basement floor.
You could also think about damming the ceiling to the ground floor if you only rarely use the hobby room.
From the 1955s it should already have sufficient basement walls with outer paint. When used regularly, I take back the insulation suggestion at the ceiling. 😉
Small note: If you’re ever asked, you’d better use this room as a “temporerary” office, because it might be quite impossible to use it as an office. A look into the LBO of your country and the building plan helps to get clarity.
Monumental protection no, but very old… built against 1955 (possibly also a little earlier) house otherwise completely uninsulated, the roof was dammed in retrospect, but the remaining walls no dam…
I’ll get the hobby room. Use daily, he has about 30sqm why I wsl. My office will also be set up here. – as a rental house, I would not be able to contain something manually at my own expense
Yes, absolutely (!!!) both insulations. Don’t eat much and bring a lot. How’s that gonna burn at 50 degrees?
The fact that hot water leading pipes must be insulated in an unheated space, i.e. usually in the heating cellar, is even – if not everything deceives me – rule.
For energy savings.
Burning can be nix. That’s what insulation material is there for.
Ignition temperatures are 200°-30° C. Isomaterial is even higher.
A hot water tube is heated to a maximum of 70° C.
If they are yours, they are not yours, they will not be allowed.
All good for 2025.