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I WARM Spooled Kit Installation Manual - Necessary:

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    Installation manual.

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    Www.Iwarm.Com spooled underfloor heating kit 1 contents 1. General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Configuration of the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. Preparat...

  • Page 3: 1. General

    1. General dear customer! You have purchased a iwarm floor heating system. Thank you for your choice. We are sure that our product will meet all your expectations and bring warmth and comfort in your home. Please read the following advices carefully before installing the system: j we recommend you t...

  • Page 4: 2. Application

    Your heating elements will not be damaged during this time (e.G. Cover the elements with cardboard or ply wood sheets). J we recommend you to use only grades of mixtures which allow for floor heating. J make sure the element heats before any tiling works (according to instructions in paragraph 5, pa...

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    1. Main heating system in detached buildings including those where there is no any central heating system. 2. Additional (comfort) heating system. Installed together with other heating devices and is intended to give additional thermal comfort. Heating system power choice is based on the follow ing ...

  • Page 6: 3. System Delivery Kit

    3. System delivery kit iwarm floor heating system consists of a reel of heating cable element and assembly tape. A thermostat is necessary for the reliable operation of iwarm floor heating system. We also recommend you to buy an i-warm additional kit with a thermostat, temperature probe, protective ...

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    Cable insulation is made of tough, heatresisting, non flammable tefzel fluoropolymer. Cable shield is made of aluminum foil reinforced with copper line. The shield pro vides mechanical and electrical protection and increases heat resistance of the cable. Cable jacket is made of heatresistant, hard p...

  • Page 8: 3.3. Thermostats

    3.2. Prepunched band installation prepunched band installation is used to facilitate heating sections laying out and fixing to the floor sur face. Pieces of tape are fixed to the subfloor. The tape has equally spaced fixing lugs to assure equal element spacing. 3.3. Thermostats a thermostat allows f...

  • Page 9: 4.1. Floor Preparation

    4. Preparation for installation 4.1. Floor preparation to provide long service life of the floor heating system and to eliminate possible damages to the heating cable during installation works you need to do some preparato ry works. How to prepare the surfaces to lay out the heating cable is describ...

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    J ceramic floor tiles: provide clean, dry and smooth surface without sharp edges, irregularities and so on. J wooden floor: secure the floor planks, cover with waterproof plywood sheets 18 mm in thickness or any other similar material sheets and fix them with screws to provide reliable and stable ba...

  • Page 11: 4.2. Heating Sections Layout

    4.2. Heating sections layout heating sections shall not be located in the places where furniture without legs will be put. Consider placing your heating sections in free from such furniture areas. Do not use the same section to heat rooms of differ ent types, e.G. Bathroom and hallway or kitchen. Al...

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    Table 1 the heating system shall be connected via a rcd (residual current device) with nominal operative current below 30 ma. This is a small device, which is mounted in an electric board, to monitor electric insulation of your equipment. If the floor heating system is to be installed in wet premise...

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    5. Iwarm floor heating system installation you can install your system independently following the instructions in this instruction. We recommend you to turn to a qualified electrician though. For quality installation and connection of the system which will ensure its warranty peri od you can also c...

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    4. Heating system installation under ceramic tiles or in cementandsand screed differs. Below are proce dures for the systems of different purpose. Www.Iwarm.Com spooled underfloor heating kit 13 it is necessary to keep proper spacing between the appliances and, for instance, standpipes and central h...

  • Page 15: Necessary:

    а. To install the heating system under tiles it is necessary: j to chase a groove in the floor to install mounting cable and a temperature gage tube. The floor groove for the temperature gage tube must be 20 x 20 mm and 50–60 cm, min., length from the wall. Www.Iwarm.Com spooled underfloor heating k...

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    J install the temperature gage. You will need: — to put the temperature gage in a corrugated tube. The temperature gage shall be inside the tube, next to its one end. The connecting wire shall go out from the other end of the tube. — tightly seal the floor end of the tube with the gage to prevent mo...

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    — make sure you can get the gage out the tube. — seal the floor groove with adhesive solution or cement it in. — after the solution hardened, mark the temperature gage location. J clean away any garbage or dust from the floor. J fix pieces of assembly tape. They shall be fixed in places where heatin...

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    J mark the beginning of the heating section which shall be close to the service box and a thermostat location (within 2.5 m distance). Www.Iwarm.Com spooled underfloor heating kit 17 bore a hol drive in a dowel fix assembly tape assembly tape is applied.

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    J put and fix a heating section. You will need: — to fix heating cable next to the splicing box near the cabling beginning. Bring mounting cable along a wall groove into the service box or to the thermostat location. Www.Iwarm.Com spooled underfloor heating kit 18 fixing cable to the tape beginning ...

  • Page 20: Pitch (Cm) = (100

    — the cable is laid in equal spacing without being overlapped. Laying pitch of the section is constant and can be calculated by formula: pitch (cm) = (100 x s) / l, where s is the actual area in sq. M on which the section is laid, and l is the section length in m (that is indicated in its technical ...

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    Value shall be no less than 1 x 10 3 Ω. Measure tem perature gage resistance – the value shall corre spond to the stated in the thermostat certificate value. J install the thermostat and service box and make all the electrical connections. Connect the thermostat while power is switched off. J shortl...

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    J cover the floor and the applied heating section with adhesive solution 5–8 mm in thickness. Let the solution dry according to its application instruc tions. J after the solution has dried up, check for damages of the heating section and temperature gage according to the recommendations above. J fi...

  • Page 23: Lows:

    J after the solution has dried up, the i-warm floor heating system is ready to work. Turn it on following the instructions in the thermostat certificate. б. If the heating system is to be installed in a screed, the installation procedure is as fol lows: j clean away any garbage or dust from the floo...

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    — put and fix the heating section with recommended in the appendix spacing. Reel out the heating cable rather that drop it down from the reel to prevent cable twisting. Make sure that the gage was locat ed between two loops of the heating cable. Put the cable evenly without intercrossing. Strictly a...

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    — tightly seal the floor end of the tube with the gage to prevent mortar from entering the tube. — fix the sealed end of the tube between the cable loops at 50–60 cm from the wall, and fix it between assembly tape lugs. — bring the tube from the service box or thermostat location to the floor (bendi...

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    Shall be no less than 1 x 10 3 Ω. Measure temperature gage resistance – the value shall correspond to the stated in the thermostat certificate value. J shortly (for 1–2 minutes) apply voltage and check for integrity of the system (a led on the face panel of the thermostat shall light). Turn off the ...

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    J after the solution has dried up, the i-warm floor heating system is ready to work. Turn it on follow ing the instructions in the thermostat certificate. — to avoid mechanical damages of the heating cable, installation works shall be performed in shoes with soft, elastic soles, otherwise cover the ...

  • Page 28: 7. Advices and Notes

    6. Turning the system on and operation after the mortar or adhesive solution has dried up (see corresponding application instructions), you can turn on the i-warm floor heating system. Turn the thermostat on and set desirable heating level (see the thermostat certifi cate instructions). After the fl...

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    Iwarm 720 programmable thermostat, which auto matically reduces or turns off the heating when it is not necessary, is especially energy efficient. If timeofuse electricity metering is available, such programmable ther mostat allows for maximum benefit. If you have to be away for a long time in cold ...

  • Page 30: 8. Your Safety

    8. Your safety j you cannot shorten fabricated heating cable sections or make alterations in the heating section design. J you cannot change feeding (mounting) cables on your own breaking manufacturermade connections in a box. J you cannot make any alterations in the thermostat design. J you cannot,...

  • Page 31: 9. Warranty

    J you shall not cover the floor areas with i-warm system installed with thermal insulation materials (carpets, blankets and so on). J you should not drive in nails, dowels or screws in floors with installed heating sections. In case of violation of any of these requirements, the manufacturer disclai...

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    Www.Iwarm.Com spooled underfloor heating kit 31 dance with the applicable i•warm system installation manual: a. The reason of dissatisfaction of the customer in written form b. Written description of the product installation works and the history of operation c. Filled in technical certificate the c...

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    No agent or representative of our company has any authority to extend or modify this warranty unless such extension or modification is made in writing by a company officer. Due to differences in building and floor insulation, cli mate and floor coverings, our company makes no repre sentation that th...

  • Page 34: 10. Plan of The Premises

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  • Page 35: 11. Appendix

    Www.Iwarm.Com spooled underfloor heating kit 34 11. Appendix choice of heating section to chose your section it is necessary to know your heated area* and rated maximum current in your electric grid. Specifications for i-warm heating sections and lay out parameters for the heating cable are given in...

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  • Page 37: Choice of Heatinsulation

    Www.Iwarm.Com spooled underfloor heating kit 36 choice of heatinsulation in case of installing the system in cementandsand screed, we recommend you to put a layer of hard heat insulating material (styrofoam), 30–80 mm in thickness, on a subfloor and then a 5 cm screed. Next, an assembly tape is fixe...

  • Page 38: Spooled Heating Kit

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