[digitalplumber]

Can this be done? I need to get a 110 feed about 6 feet across the room to put the floor heating system stat on another wall.

I assume I will have to cut out a trench to run it in and also encase the wire in something?

Thoughts please!

 

[udraft]

Don't believe you can bury it in the floor surface. Believe you'll want to use surface mounted conduit with plain conductors, along the base. Or you might be able to run romex up and over to get where you need it. I'm not an electrician, there may be other creative solutions.

 

[Windows on Wash]

You're slab on grade here? Easy enough to do, just messy. Will they let you is the questions. Not sure the rules on burying conduit.

 

[chetwisner]

Get some Wiremold to run across the surface of the wall and ceiling to the other side of the room.

 

[digitalplumber]

Why is this any different than when a plug outlet is placed in the middle of the floor in a den or like room?

 

[chetwisner]

Why is this any different than when a plug outlet is placed in the middle of the floor in a den or like room?

You asked for ideas, and you got them, now do as you wish, I guess. lain:

 

[digitalplumber]

You asked for ideas, and you got them, now do as you wish, I guess. lain:

Yes and I appreciate them, not arguing I'm asking a follow up question!

Nor am I trying to justify what I am asking.

You took my follow up question as challenging, it was not meant to be.

Sorry!

 

[Missouri Bound]

Can this be done? I need to get a 110 feed about 6 feet across the room to put the floor heating system stat on another wall.

is 6' the width of the room? Any chance you can just go up and over?
I'm guessing you are going from wall to wall....is that correct?

 

[digitalplumber]

is 6' the width of the room? Any chance you can just go up and over?
I'm guessing you are going from wall to wall....is that correct?

No, cant go up then down.

I want to tie into an unused spa tub electrical supply. The shortest distance to the wall I want to place the t-stat on is a straight line across from under the spa tub.

Only other option(s) are thru the adjoining cabinet then inside a closet and do sheetrock removal or create a new kickplate on the front of the cabinet and run the supply wire behind it in conduit.

If that makes sense.

 

[Missouri Bound]

Although is sounds like more work I would suggest the cabinet, closet and drywall approach. Are you on slab? You certainly can cut the floor and run conduit in the concrete if you want. Either way the wire must be protected. Too bad there aren't any wireless thermostat options for you.

 

[ktownskier]

What kind of heating system are you using?

Electric mat, grid or are you running wire?

Are you putting it under tile, hardwood or something else?

Are you going to use Ditra or Cementboard or something else?

 

[digitalplumber]

What kind of heating system are you using?

Electric mat, grid or are you running wire?

Are you putting it under tile, hardwood or something else?

Are you going to use Ditra or Cementboard or something else?

On slab: Ditra DUO mat and ditra heat then porcelain tile.

 

[ktownskier]

I was thinking you could grind out a channel in the concrete and run a liquidtite conduit using THHN wire. It would be noisy and messy and if you do the work yourself, no one would know.

The other options are also viable, and more to code, just fugly. Although you can paint them and run them so they are more out of sight.

I was also thinking you could extend the cold leads and while that may work, it doesn't look ideal. See below.

Don't forget to put in two temperature probes. And possibly a third. I had two fail me on one installation. It still worked, but it only worked on the temp at the thermostat, not the temp in the the floor. A BIG difference.

Good luck with your job. And good choice using Ditra, it also acts as a thermal break so you won't be losing that much heat to the slab. Although, if you put a 1/4" layer of cork, you would be amazed at the difference that just the cork would make.

This is from Schluter's website:

"Extending the heating cable cold lead
The cold lead is made up of two 14 AWG conductors with a copper braided shield, that is used as the grounding conductor. The extension must be made with building wire that is suitable for this application and complies with applicable building and electrical codes. The cold lead itself is not made of building wire and therefore cannot pass through studs unless run through a conduit. Extension of the cold lead requires the addition of a “code compliant” junction box that must be accessible at all times. The maximum length for extending the cold lead is 75 ft (23 m)."

 

[digitalplumber]

Thanks all!

 

[jeffnc]

You asked for ideas, and you got them, now do as you wish, I guess. lain:

These people always seem to come out of the wordwork in these threads.

Anyway, I live in the South and we don't have many slabs - mostly crawlspaces. So all the floor outlets I've seen have access from below. Don't think I've ever seen a floor outlet on a slab but I could be wrong.

I don't like the Wiremold idea, unless there is very little of it, and mostly hidden. Could you use an option where you go through the vanity, and only have a little runway showing down near the floor junction somewhere? You might even be able to disguise it as a little shoe molding, sort of.

 

[digitalplumber]

These people always seem to come out of the wordwork in these threads.

Anyway, I live in the South and we don't have many slabs - mostly crawlspaces. So all the floor outlets I've seen have access from below. Don't think I've ever seen a floor outlet on a slab but I could be wrong.

I don't like the Wiremold idea, unless there is very little of it, and mostly hidden. Could you use an option where you go through the vanity, and only have a little runway showing down near the floor junction somewhere? You might even be able to disguise it as a little shoe molding, sort of.

Thanks, yes that was another consideration to go through the vanity. I want to make sure that what I do is acceptable/not seen but safe, when we sell some day down the long road!


The fall back is, just put the darn thermostat on the wall behind the spa. The reason I dont want to do this is, its not near enough of the open space to measure temp, so i'm thinking that I would not get a good temp reading for the majority of the area. Were as the wall I want, is in the area where you walk in and has the most open floor space. (Hope that makes sense?)

 

[jeffnc]

Not really following you. Doesn't matter where the wall thermostat is, the temp sensor is in the floor, and you can put that sensor wherever you want.

 

[Calson]

Why is this any different than when a plug outlet is placed in the middle of the floor in a den or like room?

Water

 

[digitalplumber]

Not really following you. Doesn't matter where the wall thermostat is, the temp sensor is in the floor, and you can put that sensor wherever you want.

Boy am I a dumbass! I completely forgot!:surprise:

 

[Missouri Bound]

Not really following you. Doesn't matter where the wall thermostat is, the temp sensor is in the floor, and you can put that sensor wherever you want.

What?

The wall thermostat senses the room temperature, not the mat temperature.
Two different things.