Install A Gas Floor Heater

This post goes over how i fitted a propex heater in my van.

Install a gas floor heater.

Home improvement expert ron hazelton shows you how to complete a on person installation of a ceiling mounted vented gas heater in a garage or workshop for. Typically floors in a house are combustible or not designed to deal with a fireplace and the heat it produces. Slip the crimping sleeve over the wire at the end of the mat and put a 14 gauge stranded tinned copper wire inside. Slide the tube sets supplied with the kit through the heater s bulkhead and attach the bulkhead to the burn box with the supplied hardware.

In order to install a gas fireplace you need to install a noncombustible floor made out of masonry brick stone or concrete to protect both your subfloor and nearby walls. Crimp a black wire on one mat wire and a white wire on the other. Cover the connection with electrician s tape. Squeeze the crimping tool to crush the sleeve tightly over the wires.

These heated floors are a project best done when overhauling or changing the floor covering of an existing room or when adding a new room. Place the gaskets supplied with the heater onto the studs on the front of the burn box. Installation manuals our radiant heating installation manuals are written in easy to understand language with pictures and diagrams they are designed to help the do it yourselfer diy heating professional or reasonably competent handyperson install radiant heating systems with confidence and excellent results the manual and the supplements are free. Finally my van has proper heating.

According to our floor furnace material estimator the maximum reported cost of floor furnace installation is 2 600 and the minimum is 2 100. This in floor heating system consists of one thin continuous cable heating element woven into a mat that you install under the tile. Sadly as is the case with most hvac installation we highly recommend calling a hvac pro to. Note although i m just showing how i did this in my van some people don t like that i m potentially encouraging others to install their own gas appliances.

If the heater has legs you can.