Install Baseboard Heater With Wall Thermostat

Either way connecting a thermostat is a relatively straightforward process that most people can complete less than 1 2 hour.

Install baseboard heater with wall thermostat.

Many apartments are using electric baseboard heaters for heat in apartments. Thomas with cadet tech support shows you how to install a double pole wall thermostat on a 240 volt electric baseboard heater. Thermostats for baseboard heaters can go anywhere in the room but tend to give the most accurate reading when located on an interior wall and away from other heat sources. The baseboard heater thermostat helps you regulate the temperature in the room that contains the heater.

Some baseboard heaters have thermostat units built into the heaters and require no wall thermostat. Follow the installation instructions above for mounting and wiring your baseboard heater and you re all set. A new line voltage thermostat will need to be connected as part of the installation of the new baseboard heater. Route remaining supply and ground wire to the baseboard heater.

Mount wall thermostats used with a baseboard heater across the room from the heater. Double pole wall thermostat route supply wires to the thermostat wiring box if not already present. Check out our voltage blog pos. Careful attention to specific wiring connections will result in a successful.

Electric baseboard heater wiring how to install baseboard heaters the diagram on the left illustrates two typical wiring scenarios for baseboard heaters with wall mounted single pole thermostats. The thermostat can be mounted directly on the heater itself or it can be mounted on the wall so that the circuit wiring passes through the thermostat first on the way to the baseboard heater. Single pole thermostats may be used with either 120 volt or 240 volt heaters while double pole thermostats only control 240 volt heaters. A thermostat mounted at either end of the baseboard heater provides temperature control however a wall mounted thermostat will be more efficient and may control more that one heating unit depending on the calculated load of all units and the load capacity of the wall thermostat.

Route remaining thermostat wire marked t1 to the baseboard heater. An existing wall mounted thermostat can be installed or wired to a baseboard heater for easier adjustment access. They are typically mounted at the same height as wall switches. It s easiest to mount a thermostat used with a wall heater in the same stud cavity on the opposite side of the stud about five feet above the floor.

Many apartments are using electric baseboard heaters for heat in apartments.