Electric Ceiling Cable Heat Repair

Radiant ceiling heat comes in two main forms.

Electric ceiling cable heat repair.

Hi everyone i was raised in a house with electric ceiling heat. Disadvantages limitations problems and cons of electric cable ceiling heat same problems as other forms of electric heat. Look for corroded or snapped wires. If the wires to the ceiling are intact but the heating element doesn t work it may be.

My parents built it new in 1960 i was 7 and they lived in that house until 2012 and never had to spend one penny on maintenance on that electric heat. Radiant ceiling heat was real popular here in the 1970s there were 3 mehtods of installation. I don t think that the ceiling heat was worth the trouble because at the floor it was still always cold in winter given that we had a ground floor unit and weren t getting the benefit of. Step 3 replace burned out heating elements.

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. Splice in a new cable with a wire crimper or wire nuts. And it was clean heat no dust except when the a c ran in the summer. In the older form electric heating elements are sandwiched between a layer of drywall and a layer of plaster.

If this is the source of the problem repairs are fairly easy. I would say that is pretty awesome. Radiant ceiling heat is a style of heating that is significantly different from the radiators or forced air ducts that you may be used to.