Terracotra floors : Its thermal properties

All we ever heard of him, "You are colder than marble"; and as they say all these have a reason.

Indeed marble is one of the coolest materials, and you will know of what I speak, those who ever have taken up barefoot winter on a marble floor, or have gone out of the tub after a warm and suddenly shower put foot on the ground, one is cut the body.

On the outside, we can also encounter the opposite case of using stone floors as blackboard or some kind of dark material; when summer comes and the sun is full, there is no god to be able to put a bare foot on the damn ground.

With these two examples above, is what we refer to as thermal properties of a soil.

Furthermore, it is becoming more common in homes installing underfloor heating the soil in winter. Of course keep in mind that against a ground thermal properties have a cold winter, the underfloor heating cost more time and energy to get the optimum soil temperature range. This results in both energy expenditure cost and time that must be forecast to connect underfloor if we want this to desired temperature.

Taking these factors into account, it's time to know how to terracota floors behaves from the thermal point of view.

I must say that certainly in this section, terracota tiles  is champion well above most other soils.

Things to consider:

- The terracota tiles is a porous material and as such will allow perspiration is high, so this is going to translate in terms of cooling.

• For example, outdoors in the incidence of direct sunlight will absorb less calos due to porosity and breathability

• Another significant example is that if we water the soil will absorb this amount for its porosity, which will take to evaporate by direct sunlight and will cause the soil to stay much cooler in comparison, if we this same process with a marble floor or slate much less porous and less extent of absorption.

- Your behavior with underfloor heating. Being composed of clay, the raw material responds quickly to get the desired temperature, with corresponding savings in time and energy.

- Does the color of the clay influences? Of course that meant a darker color than outdoor temperature reached higher than a light-colored clay; however, this temperature difference will not be in most significant cases to reach a decisive factor. Normally not burn our feet in summer on a mud floor, regardless of the color it to have; I say usually, because of course if we are in a very arid area with very high temperatures and a blazing sun, if you can reach the soil temperature becomes annoying. But compared with other floors, would be well below what temperature reached at issue.


In conclusion, I must say that craft terracota floors whose physical characteristics are soils that behave well both in winter and heat in summer.


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