If you are in the construction or renovation phase, you can take advantage of this moment to prepare power cables (wiring) hidden in the wall for heating. And after the final preparation of the rooms, panels will be hung on the walls or ceiling, thermostats will be installed next to the light switches and the wiring will then remain hidden in the walls, out of sight.
Preparation for installation can be divided into stages:
– Leave about 20 cm of cable out in the places where the panels will be installed – on the ceiling (in this case we install the panel anywhere, and if there is more than one panel, we install them symmetrically, to get a nice aesthetic and even distribution of the panels on the ceiling) or on the wall (in this case, ideally mount the panels at about 2/3 of the wall height, calculated from the floor, in the middle of the wall, so that can distribute heat evenly throughout the room)
– Then run the cable in the ceiling and wall to the place where the thermostat will be installed – we recommend placing it near the light switch so that the light switch and temperature control are grouped in one place, it will look good and is convenient for the user to use
– At this point we prepare the cans so that the wires “incoming” from the panel and “outgoing” to the power supply meet in the can and can be connected into the thermostat
– and finally we run the wiring from the box to the switchboard with the fuses
– i.e. the power line “goes through” the thermostat to the IR heater
– the final assembly consists of hanging the panels, connecting them with a cable coming out of the wall and screwing the thermostat to the box to which the cables from the box are connected
NOTE: If there is more than one panel per room, control is via a thermostat, which means that the wiring from multiple heaters also “meets” in the box.
– the best comparison is the lamp power supply system – that is, instead of the lamp we have panels and instead of a light switch we have the thermostat.
ATTENTION: If you are in the renovation phase and are preparing the installation for the panels, in a situation where a suspended ceiling is being prepared, you should reinforce it with OSB panels (12mm or 18mm). We do it as follows: we place OSB panels “from above” on the prepared steel ceiling profiles, they do not have to be full-surface, it is enough that they have a slightly larger area than the surface of the heater that will be installed in this place ( The size of the largest heater is 115 cm x 75 cm) so that it can easily be screwed into the OSB board. And then “from below” we screw the plasterboard to the frame. Finally, the heater hangs from the screw connection to the ceiling on a solid OSB board and not on a sensitive and fragile plasterboard.