Installation of electric underfloor heating with your hands

The heated electric floor creates a unique comfortable atmosphere in any room in your home. It can be used in various types of premises, for example in bathrooms or in nurseries. In addition, the heated electric floor can be covered with any type of floor covering, for example, an extremely popular laminate in our country.

The warm floor under the laminate is very suitable, for example, for a children's room. Your child will be able to play on the floor all year round and you do not have to put extra mats or mats.

The heated floor under the laminate, mounted in the bedroom will allow you to start your day with the most pleasant sensations, meeting the morning with a feeling of gentle heat under bare feet.

You can easily install the heated floor under the laminate with your own hands, without the involvement of master builders. Consider the algorithm for its installation.

Required tools and materials:

Actually heated electric floor itself.

For installation we will need:

In the box you will find the operating instructions, the roll of the heated electrical floor, the electrical connection cables, as well as the bitumen insulation kit to protect the contact clips.

You also need to purchase an

Heat reflecting film for heated floor. It can be distinguished by a characteristic foil layer.

Preliminary work

Calculate the floor surface area, the part on which we will lay the heating film. Do not place the film under the low stationary items of furniture.

You can draw a drawing of your future warm floor on millimeter paper.

Prior to where will be located the thermostat of your warm floor.

We lay the heat-reflecting material

To increase the level of insulation of your room, we place the heat-reflecting material on the floor.

Fix the heat-reflecting material with a stapler or metallized adhesive tape.

In any case, the strips of heat-reflecting material between themselves must also be secured with adhesive tape.

Here so the surface of the floor, covered with a heat-reflecting material, fastened with an adhesive tape looks.

Laying of the electric underfloor heating

We spread the thermal film according to the developed laying scheme. Please note that the copper strip on the thermal film should be at the bottom.

If necessary, cut off pieces of thermo film in the places specified by the manufacturer.

correctly. We place the cut sheets according to the developed layout diagram.

We connect the insulation

Now sheets of thermal film laid out on the floor must be connected to electrical cables and to isolate the locations of electrical contacts.

The insulation of the contacts of the heated electric warm floor is a special bitumen sticker, divided into two parts.

We isolate with a bitumen sticker the place where you cut the copper bus.

Please note that the applied insulation must cover the entire copper surface and contacts leading to the elements of the dark material on the heated electrical floor along the entire length of the cut.

Place the contacts in the places where you want to further connect the electric power wires.

We arrange the contact so that one side of it is inside the layer of the heating film. The second side of the contact must be located above the strips of copper foil.

With the use of pliers we tighten the contact tightly, ensuring its reliable fixation.

Fix the layers of the heated electrical floor with each other with adhesive tape, and also attach the stripes to the heat-reflecting material. We exclude the possibility of shifting the layers.

Insert the stripped end of the electrical cable into the corresponding contact hole.

Fix the wires in the contact hole using pliers.

We fix all the places of connecting the wiring to the heated electric floor with bitumen stickers.

wires Connect the

temperature controller With the thermostat, we can significantly save the energy consumed by your warm floor, including it only at the time and at the temperature you need.

A temperature sensor is usually supplied with your heated electrical floor. Place it under the film on the heating element in black.

film. Fix the sensor on the film with a piece of insulating sticker from bitumen.

To ensure that the temperature sensor does not interfere with the surface of the final floor covering, make a cutout in the heat reflective material underneath it.

. Also, in order to ensure the evenness of the laminate, we make notches in the layer of heat-reflecting material, under the contacts and wires.

Cut-outs in the insulating layer can be made for bundles of wires.

Wires placed in the recesses must be fixed with adhesive tape.

We install the mounting plate of the temperature controller on the wall in the chosen place.

According to the connection diagram indicated on the thermoregulator we fix the connecting wires.

For powerful systems of heated electric floor it is recommended to connect the thermostat to the wiring through a separate circuit breaker.

Check the operation and testing of the heated floor system.

Turn on the thermostat system of the heated floor.

We check the heating of each strip of laid warm electric floor.

We check the connection points especially carefully. They should not spark and get too hot.

We deploy polyethylene film on the floor surface. You can replace it with any substrate under the laminate board, which is allowed to be used together with the heated floors.

Begin to lay the finish flooring-for example a laminate board.

Carry out assembly of laminate boards with special care so as not to damage the stacked heated electric floor.

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