Install Heated Floor Wire

Now the following may sound obvious to many of you but it s happened on lots of occasions in the past.

Install heated floor wire.

In this tutorial we set the ditra heat mat over top an osb wood subfloor. Installing the electrical circuit. Ditra heat mats are 1 4 inch thick so schluter recommends using a 1 4 x1 4 x1 4 square notched trowel for the thin set. Crimp a black wire on one mat wire and a white wire on the other.

Do not i repeat do not cut the wire. Today is the day that i ll be showing you how to install the warmlyyours tempzone radiant floor heat. Electrical boxes are typically placed 4 to 5 off the floor. Cover the notches in the bottom plate with protective metal plates.

The incoming circuit power will be the same as the line and the cable wiring is connected as the load. Weave the thermostat wire through the mesh so the sensing bulb is an equal distance between wires and 12 in. Schluter requires setting the mat in modified thin set so that it s fleece side will adhere properly. Slip the crimping sleeve over the wire at the end of the mat and put a 14 gauge stranded tinned copper wire inside.

Are you ready to get toasty today. Squeeze the crimping tool to crush the sleeve tightly over the wires. Can i tell you a little secret. The electrical circuit is installed to the location of the thermostat and the cables of the floor heat mat are brought to this same junction box.

Cover the connection with electrician s tape. How to wire floor heatingwe demonstrate as a diy or the do it yourselfer how to wire an electric in floor heating controller once you have your supply conduc. Use hot melt glue to secure the thermostat wires to the floor and the power lead in the groove. And i yelled at anyone who dared step on the mats in shoes.

If it s a 240 this would be hot and this would be hot. The two wires in the center which are the bottom red and the top black these two wires will attach to the corresponding wires from your floor p p all right now we re ready to pair up the wire from the floor with the wires from the thermostat and this is a very simple operation. Into the warming area. For electric floor heating installations that require a floor sensor the installer should include two pieces of 1 2 conduit from the electrical box to the base of the wall see picture below.