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INSTALL A
HEATED WOOD FLOOR
Installation Tips: • Use 1/4-in. or 3/8-in. sleepers so that filling the voids with leveler will give you an effective heat bank, yet only minimally raise floors. • Using the standard 10-in. spacing for 3-in. wide sleeper runs, we spaced three runs of cable (spaced at 2”, 5” and 8”) in each sleeper gap.
Note: Depending on your specific conditions, you may need to adjust sleeper spacing to accommodate the support of the wood floor.
• For installations over concrete and/or requiring insulation, a variant of the sleeper method is to use 2x3’s or 2x4’s partly
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The sleepers were spaced 16" on-center, which creates a 10" wide space between them to run three loops of radiant cable spaced 3" apart.