Always a pleasure to watch a professional do what he knows ! Thank you.

@HomeRepairTutor

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, appreciate the kind words

Love the tutorial! It was very detailed with nothing extra that wasn't needed. This gives me the confidence to install the Ditra-heat system in my master bathroom when I remodel.

Great tutorial on installation-I'm going to be putting this down for my basement bathroom floor. A couple things on the electrical make-up at the box: Since this is 240V, the white wire from the Romex cable should be re-identified as hot using black electrical tape. Also, the ground wires should be spliced with the equipment ground back to the panel, and bonded to the box. You can use a pigtail wire to the ground terminal in the box, or leave the ground wire from the Romex long enough to wrap the ground screw, and then pigtail with the rest. This bonds everything to the metal box and piping.

Y’all rock! This video and the Kerdi shower kit installation videos have been a huge help!!!

Thanks Jeff! Doing 10 of these in one house next month 😳😳😳 gonna be exciting, first time doing it. Customer wants only schluter products, glad I found your video. Hope all is well

This is a great tutorial, thanks for producing it. I'm currently in the process of installing Ditra Heat in a hallway and bathroom and this has been very useful in helping me avoid the obvious pitfalls.

@jlowe1892

3 жыл бұрын

Ok pol

@justice-jb5ld

Жыл бұрын

I’m curious, were you hable to do the installation by yourself? The electrical part looks very complicated.

So great, thank you. Especially al the electrical walk thru. I am about to go install mine now!

@HomeRepairTutor

4 жыл бұрын

let us know if you have any questions, always happy to help

Excellent video. Between the installation manual and this video, installation is completely explained.

@HomeRepairTutor

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rc

Great explanation and installation, answered a lot of questions.

Dude. This is such a gift. Thanks for making this video

Very good tutorials. Here I came again just to let you know that I called Schluter , as you told me so, and yes, just like you said, they were very kind and answered all my questions.

@HomeRepairTutor

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome, do you feel reassured that your electrical setup is good to go?

@bihlover80s33

5 жыл бұрын

Home Repair Tutor .... Definitely yes. Even though,they told me their system supports both 120-240

@HomeRepairTutor

5 жыл бұрын

Your floor will be toasty, just be sure to test everything before, during, and after the installation 👍🏻

Thanks for the detail! That is pretty slick how the heating wire snaps in...

Excellent video guys! Thanks for putting this detailed tutorial together.

Thanks for posting this, I found it very helpful 😎

Excellent explanation and walk through.

Excellent video, thanks so much for making it, and really enjoying the detail of instructions provided, and you answered my query of what to do round the edges where I'm not putting heating, and how to level up the floor between merely tile area and underfloor heating areas, so now have to buy some more matting to go all round the edges...Baffled though about why I need to do a mini dogleg in the wires if over 10 feet? (my new kitchen extension is 12 x 14 ft) I'm not going all the way to the sides, but had planned to do the whole length, so please explain why the little dogleg?

Ditra heat is a great product, makes installing a heated floor so much easier, good job on the video.

@HomeRepairTutor

7 жыл бұрын

+Sal DiBlasi thanks buddy, it's a great system.

@Elperroviejo1

6 жыл бұрын

it is .! bt plywood need to be level . in the bay area houses are so old that we have no choose bt to float then i use this ditra over the float & come out great . if the customers wanna pay , cause it gets pricy haha

@Sazonman

6 жыл бұрын

Sal DiBlasi he should've clean all of the remaining thin set off the ditra-heat mat like you do it Sal, otherwise he did a good job.

@kennethlehtinen8822

5 жыл бұрын

Why must it be test?? I mean...isn't it tested at the factory? seems redundant.

@gextreme2381

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure who does nicer work, Sal or you guys!

Thanks for upload, this is something I've been interested and asked to do

@HomeRepairTutor

7 жыл бұрын

+bniel798 awesome, hopefully this video helped. It's long but has a lot of details. Plus we worked with Schluter to make sure all the tips were in line with their handbook

Great tutorial, thanks so much for sharing!

Love your video. I have a question concerning the splice going to the thermostat. You chiseled out a space so that the splice would be below or at level. I have a concrete floor and am using ditraheat-tb . Will there be enough room for the splice to sit without having to chisel out the concrete? I am laying tile on top of the ditraheat-tb. Should I be concerned ? Thanks

nice to see how this works. builders are installing this week. 🥳

Thanks for the vid! Looking at doing this to our bathroom next year, so if your a diy’er, are you able to attain a full warranty if you test and record the electric values at the time of installation? Also the vids I’ve seen on your products so far are on total construction, I’m looking at doing it on an existing bathroom with cabinets, tube and shower currently installed, only looking to do the walkways in the room, I’m assuming it’s just as doable as new construction? Thanks.

@Beaut0721

Жыл бұрын

I suspect it is an expansion joint for the resistive cable, as it expands (lengthens) when it is running.

always know who's a pro by how they trowel that thinset on lol! Thanks for the great video.

Looks right. Good job for accurate info.

Amazing video guys very detailed

@HomeRepairTutor

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Clearly explained. Thanks!

A great video gents, thanks for posting!

@HomeRepairTutor

4 жыл бұрын

thank you

Thanks for the tips, great show 👍

Great job. Is it possible to waterproof the seams using Kerdi tape on Ditra-heat like you guys did with regular Ditra in another video?

Great!!! Job with Ditra Heat, Schluter System

Great job guys!

Great job, great explanation, thx a lot !

Excellent video, very well done

@HomeRepairTutor

7 жыл бұрын

+Dennis Heflin thanks man 👍

A question please. I have a kitchen with a quarry tiled floor on dirt (good condition, no rising damp, do not want to dig up), want to use Ditra with under floor heating and with the eventual vinyl or click vinyl on top (can withstand underfloor heating). What do you recommend please? Thank you.

Superb video. Thank you so much for all of your expertise.

Beautiful demonstration

Very helpful vid. Thanks.

Great job guys.

great work guys. Thanks.

Just put some of this in today well put it in yesterday and put the heating element on today 1st time using it it's really easy compared to the other ways oh putting a heated floor down

Wow New channel bro, great job ❤

Hi, I didnt understand what wire gauge have you used to power up the thermostad 12/2 or 10/2? thanks a lot

Hey Jeff, Love your videos for the simplicity and wisdom. You simplify even the difficult. That said, I'll have to try and give a little constructive criticism of your partner. He tends to get off topic, or over explain some things. I believe it takes away from the simplicity you have become known for. It also makes the videos much longer than needed. Again, taking away a hallmark of yours, short and to the point. I hope this helps as intended, to make your channel even better! Appreciate all your hard work, and advice! Mark

@HomeRepairTutor

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mark, I always appreciate constructive criticism because it makes the videos better - I really appreciate your kindness and feedback 🙏🏼🔥

Great video!

@HomeRepairTutor

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, hopefully it helped

Thanks for your video. I want to make a back porch into a bathroom with heated flooring.Will the heated flooring help keep the water hoses underneath that is unheated from freezing ?

great job guys, thank you,

Thanks for the great video! Any reason not to use schluter allset? I really like it and would love to hear why you like Mapai better. Thanks!

Thank you for the informative video. I am about to install Ditra heated flooring in my bathroom. However, I have 12” wide wood planks for my subfloor. The builder of my home also drilled 2” holes in the subfloor to blow cellulose between the second and first floor. How important that 100% adhesion occur between the mat and the subfloor? Do you recommend laying concrete board down or re-sub-flooring my bathroom? Thank you again!

@Shad0wC0mpany2

10 ай бұрын

I have a slat floor and came to the comments section to ask basically the same thing.

Great Install tutorial! Will be laying mine tomorrow. My only issue I have with this is the suggestion of wiring 2 heater cables in parallel to a single thermostat! Stop and think this through for 30 seconds. You have a 300 and a 100 ohm cables... current flow will split at the junction into 25/75%.... the shorter cable will heat up much faster than the longer cable. Next where do you put the single sensor? If its in the smaller area with the shorter cable, the larger area will never get up to the set temperature... if the sensor is placed in the larger area.. you run the risk of burning out the shorter cable. I guess Schluter forgot to mention on their FAQ that you can only connect 2 hating cables in parallel IF they are of similar resistance.

Thanks for the tutorial What about the wet areas? What happens if the floors keep holding water?

Hi there! Great video! Very helpful - I realize this video is a bit older but I'm wondering if you know if the amazon links you provided here are considered "authorized dealers" so that the Schluter Warranty is valid? Looks like most of the wire/heat mat is sold through Marketplace Pros and I'm having a hell of a time trying to get an answer on that.

Thanks for sharing this awesome video. I'm just wondering the wire that you'r laying on that membrane, is it coated or not?

Great video! Question - after your thermostat is all wired up, wouldn't you want to actually power it up and see if the heat wires start to get warm? Obviously you wouldn't let them get very hot, but I plan to do that when I install my system.

@HomeRepairTutor

4 жыл бұрын

you want to test wires three times. Once before installation, once after installation, and finally once after setting tile

We’re installing on a concrete slab and intend to use large format tiles. Or slab is very close to level, but has some slight gradation changes. At what point should you put a layer of self leveling concrete over the slab?

Great video - what do you do with all the extra cold lead wire?

Really appreciate 🎉best video ever ❤

Great video. Then you simply tile right on top, correct? Edit....disregard found part 2, lol and watching now!! You rock!

This was a great tutorial. In the end there was a comment about using an unmodified mortar to fill the cups. I have already purchased a highly modified mortar that I intended to use for setting the mat and the tile. Can you tell me more about the results of immediately tiling after laying the mat with a modified mortar?

Can you install vinyl floor planking over the heat wire instead of thin set and tile? Thanks

Great video 👍🏻 only thing I would modify Thermostat should have been positioned higher so you don’t have to bend down to make adjustments

Hi, quick question, is the insulation board no needed with the Ditra-Heat? I'm about to install underfloor heating in the living room and hallway and just wondering if I need to install first the insulation backer board and then, the Ditra-Heat? Many thanks.

I’m going try to do heating floor ,this video it’s very helpful thanks

Thank you, awesome video! Unimportant for how to install this, but just want to inform that there is definitely a difference between hot and neutral. Your neutral wires are grounded inside the main electrical panel; meaning that there is no potential difference between neutral and ground (basically zero volts on neutral). If you were to switch a neutral wire on a light switch instead of the hot, or hook up something backwards, the device could appear to be off because there is not a complete electrical path but would still have 120V at the device. This could prove very dangerous!

great job guys

Amazingly good 👍

You mentioned thin set, we just layed our detra wire, and are doing hex mosaics, we are planning on doing thin set on top of the wire and then the mosaic, is that what you do?

Can you install the sheets over concrete that has been stained with a solid color stain but not sealed. I read that thinset will not stick to the concrete when putting tiles directly on it. But is that a problem with the sheets?

If your just going to install LVP over the top do you really need to bond it to the wood floor? Also I can’t find Kersbond locally, what else can be used?

That was awesome! I'll be doing my basement soon but I'll be installing vinyl plank flooring. Is that compatible? Thx.

@HomeRepairTutor

4 жыл бұрын

Schluter does allow other materials over their heated floors

Hi guys great video, I was hoping to see what you did where two mats join. Do you seal the joints with a kerdi band strip before tiling like with the usual ditra mat? And is the ditra heat mat on a par with the usual mat for waterproofing?

@MyFortressConstruction

Жыл бұрын

It's just for holding the wire and uncoupling the floor. You have to water proof it with kerdi like it was a bare floor.

Really good information 👌👌👌

Can you install a good quality vinyl plank floor on this or does it have to be something solid like a ceramic tile?

@brilheaint

Жыл бұрын

most vinyl has a warning on it IF it can NOT be used over in floor heating, check your product

What if the wire were run in a groove in cut into plyboard? Would there be an issue with thermal conductivity?

Thank you!

Using the system that has capability for vinyl fooor covering, is thinset or leveler required over the mat? Thank you

Try using Calorique heating matts eliminates so much extra work from using wire solution. Calorique has a tile heat solution that uses a self stick matt that you lay down first then put thin set and tile without doing twice the work for radiant heating. Save on labor and save time with Calorique. Also the matt is 0.0016" thick so its like putting paper down and doesn't raise the floor height which is very important and additional labor savings.

With this system I wouldn't have dura rock the wood floor prior? if I was using wedi for my shower how would it be? overlap wedi or ditra?

@HomeRepairTutor

7 жыл бұрын

+Alexander Rivera you're correct, with the right subfloor thickness you can use the DITRA-HEAT membrane without DuRock. Schluter's DITRA-HEAT handbook does a great job of explaining the subfloor requirements. If you use a Wedi shower pan you can overlap the pan and DITRA-HEAT membrane with Wedi Subliner by 12 inches on both sides at the transition between the two different materials.

I was looking for a video I saw a while ago that mention what thickness Kerdi to use if the bathroom is transitioning to a wood floor. If this was that video, I missed the info. What’s the answer please?

So you are using modified mortar underneath and on top for the tile ? It’s a question see ?

@HomeRepairTutor

6 жыл бұрын

Modified thin-set under and we did use it to fill in the studs. But - and this is very important - that modified thin-set on top was allowed to dry overnight. Otherwise, if you intend to tile the same day it's best to use unmodified. Hence, we used Mapei's Kerabond/Keralastic for the modified thin-set and could have used just the Kerabond for the unmodified. That said, you could also use Schluter's ALL-SET both under and over the DITRA-HEAT. Hope that helps.

How are you going to waterproof the junction between the ditra and the wedi shower base? I would think subliner dry but Wedi doesn't like the idea of mixing their stuff with Schluter stuff. Might have missed this but can you comment on the electrical requirements for the ditra heat.

@HomeRepairTutor

7 жыл бұрын

+Rich McVeigh thanks Rich for asking, we actually have a video showing how to install the Wedi Subliner over both the pan and the DITRA-HEAT over in Bathroom Repair Tutor...it's Lesson 8 in the Wedi Walk-In Shower section. We like the Subliner because it can overlap by 12" in the shower and on the DITRA-HEAT. DITRA-HEAT needs a separate circuit for the system. The cables also require GFCI protection but if you get the Schluter thermostat it has a GFCI built into it. I'll have a written tutorial for this video over on Home Repair Tutor with a lot of details. But Schluter's handbook is priceless, here's the link to it resources.schluter.com/media/DITRA-HEAT-InstallationGuide.pdf

Thank you!!!

instead of adding concrete for the next step, is there a lighter substitute you can lay down before you put you wood tiles down?

how long are the wires to the thermostat, and do you need run it thru conduit?

@MulloyDIY

2 жыл бұрын

I mounted the electrical box at 51 inches off the floor and there was plenty of cable to get the cold leaf to the floor. Yes, the instructions say to use conduit.

So was that floor waterproof? What about around the perimeter and where two pieces of kerdi meet

Are this system workable or heat efficiency enough to counter act a chilling living room flooring right above a double garage during Winter months !

@HomeRepairTutor

7 жыл бұрын

+Stephen Lam it would help a lot

Tanks for the info

What kind of box are you using the mount the thermostat?

Is it possible to extend a continuous run of this to another room and tie it all into a single circuit and thermostat? I'm renovating my home room by room and would love to have radiant heat throughout the house.

do you need some sort of primer between osb and the modified thinset? worried about moisture loss to osb

Dry fit the ditra before u put it down. makes a much cleaner and quicker install.

Curious as I am installing this today. Looks like you install the cold splice and in your case, splices closer than 8" to the heat register. This is acceptable? Thanks and great video...by far the best I have seen.

@HomeRepairTutor

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Always follow the guidance in Schluter’s most current instructional booklet. That way your warranty will be upheld. Sometimes we’re constrained by real world problems, hence the placement of the splices. What kind of project are you working on?

I see that you are using 2 different rolls, would you not have to install a power module to allow both wires to work off of the one thermostat? Great video, Thank you for sharing.

@allenuic

9 ай бұрын

that's exactly what I was puzzled with. With this parallel connection, the shorter roll (less ohms) will suck more electric current than the longer roll (higher ohms). This will result in unbalanced floor heating throughout the rooms where the area above the shorter roll feels a lot warmer.

That upside down symbol on the meter for ohms is the Greek letter Omega.... :)

@PeterSzymanski

5 жыл бұрын

well, it's an Ohm symbol

I have to install Ditra Heat in a room but there is 1" mud floor heat floor system (mesh) exist can I Install Ditra on the old system ?? thank-you

can this be installed in the walls of a bathroom under tile?

Hi! Do I need to use diferent testers?

Can Ditra be installed over vinyl floor if the vinyl floor is down good and tight.

great vid

@HomeRepairTutor

7 жыл бұрын

+Dewayne M thank you

How much the system cost ?? Great video

would u use DITRA heat for a whole house?