More progress. Getting shit done!
Oct. 16th, 2023 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickAfter work today, I ran all the new wire (the 25' roll of romex was enough, yay!) for the upgraded heating in the book-n-crafts-n-plants room. (Sunday I made the holes in drywall and 2x4's for the running of the wires so it was all ready to go when I got home from work today.)
While it's kind of a messy project, due to having holes in the drywall and stuff, the new wiring is relatively simple. The old power in (for the old wall mount fan heater) will junction to a new, longer piece -- necessary because it can't reach to a baseboard heater location without help. Since buried junction boxes are a code violation these days, I'm doing the junction in an outlet-sized box that will have a flat brown coverplate over it. Anyone trying to work on the electric heat in that room will thank me later and it'll be fine. :)
From there, the "power in" wire goes over to the location of the baseboard heater. At that point, the wires will thread into the baseboard heater. The hot black wire (both wires are hot, this is 220 electric) will hook to one of the baseboard heater wires. Doesn't matter which one. Either one is fine. The white hot wire in will hook to the black wire of the new romex that goes over to the thermostat, where it will hook to the thermostat as "Line IN". From the thermostat, as "LOAD", the white wire in the new romex will come back to the heater and hook up to the OTHER wire in the heater. This is very much the opposite of difficult.
And I unboxed the 1500 watt baseboard heater and took out the baseboard trim, tacker strip, carpet, and pad where the heater needs to go. (This is just the one wall, out about a foot from the wall, but what it does is let me get a good idea of "how high" I want the baseboard heater to sit once I have the flooring down.) I haven't put the heater in place yet because I need to make a hole in the wall for the wires to come through and it isn't urgent because I need all the parts before I disconnect the old heat.
I installed the box for the (now ordered) programmable single-pole line-voltage thermostat, though I did not go for the $300 "Alexa Compatible" one because first off that's fucking highway robbery and secondly I don't have an Alexa. Thermostat is supposed to arrive by the weekend.
Once I have the thermostat, I can go ahead and do all the installing and stuff. Should have the new heater in service by the weekend if that's true. Yay.
And then there's drywalling and painting and removal of the remainder of the carpet and flooring ordering and so forth.
But it's progress. I need to double-check my measurements and get the plank flooring ordered because headway is being made here.
While it's kind of a messy project, due to having holes in the drywall and stuff, the new wiring is relatively simple. The old power in (for the old wall mount fan heater) will junction to a new, longer piece -- necessary because it can't reach to a baseboard heater location without help. Since buried junction boxes are a code violation these days, I'm doing the junction in an outlet-sized box that will have a flat brown coverplate over it. Anyone trying to work on the electric heat in that room will thank me later and it'll be fine. :)
From there, the "power in" wire goes over to the location of the baseboard heater. At that point, the wires will thread into the baseboard heater. The hot black wire (both wires are hot, this is 220 electric) will hook to one of the baseboard heater wires. Doesn't matter which one. Either one is fine. The white hot wire in will hook to the black wire of the new romex that goes over to the thermostat, where it will hook to the thermostat as "Line IN". From the thermostat, as "LOAD", the white wire in the new romex will come back to the heater and hook up to the OTHER wire in the heater. This is very much the opposite of difficult.
And I unboxed the 1500 watt baseboard heater and took out the baseboard trim, tacker strip, carpet, and pad where the heater needs to go. (This is just the one wall, out about a foot from the wall, but what it does is let me get a good idea of "how high" I want the baseboard heater to sit once I have the flooring down.) I haven't put the heater in place yet because I need to make a hole in the wall for the wires to come through and it isn't urgent because I need all the parts before I disconnect the old heat.
I installed the box for the (now ordered) programmable single-pole line-voltage thermostat, though I did not go for the $300 "Alexa Compatible" one because first off that's fucking highway robbery and secondly I don't have an Alexa. Thermostat is supposed to arrive by the weekend.
Once I have the thermostat, I can go ahead and do all the installing and stuff. Should have the new heater in service by the weekend if that's true. Yay.
And then there's drywalling and painting and removal of the remainder of the carpet and flooring ordering and so forth.
But it's progress. I need to double-check my measurements and get the plank flooring ordered because headway is being made here.
