I m repairing a corner of the ceiling with radiant heat installed.
Repairing radiant ceiling heat wires.
Hello i used to do a lot of ceiling radiant cable before thermo ray came out with the heat wires imbedded in 12 wide sheetrock panels and even that is now a dinosaur.
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Question for the people smarter than me.
Baseboard heat is the usual fix in most of these cases.
Step 2 repair faulty wiring.
If there is no attic someone is sol unless the want to replace the ceiling.
Look for corroded or snapped wires.
My understanding is that if these old ceiling heat systems are damaged there is no approved field repair.
First check the visible wiring.
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For those that have never seen it a heat loss for the room is determined then you order the length wattage of cable you need.
Since the cables wires in this type of ceiling heating heat by electrical current resistance this is indeed a specific form of electric heat and suffers just about all the drawbacks of it.
The repairs are made and the drywall is patched.
I managed to remove the drywall from around the wires so they are intact but now i have a loop of wire that i m not going to be able to re embed.
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If this is the source of the problem repairs are fairly easy.
Begin at the breaker box tracing back through the walls and attic.
Radiant ceiling heat repair kit.
If the radiant ceiling isn t heating up because of an incomplete circuit there are several possible causes.
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Mine is wire embedded in the drywall not between two layers.
The wire he cut isn t the supply wire to the ceiling heat.
Disadvantages limitations problems and cons of electric cable ceiling heat same problems as other forms of electric heat.
He cut the actual resistive heating wire.
The top layer of drywall is cut the layer toward the attic.