Fantastic product, even though you can't see it after it is installed but you can sure feel it! Our new kitchen is made entirely out of granite and would not be complete without Ideal Heating ELEKTRA floor heating. 

      THANK YOU!

                                    Stanley, Maria and Chi-chi

                                    238 Delmar Ave

                                    Staten Island, NY

Simple, automatic and great!

Pictures:

1. BEFORE. Insulation from the ground and outdoor surface Elektra heating cable layout.

2. DURING. Heating cable and automatic sensor constantly checking for moisture and freezing temperatures to automatically turn the heating ON.

3. Almost AFTER.

Isn't all this simply neat?

Six months later:

Description of the project:

First, the old, cold, and uneven floor tiles were smashed and removed and the concrete slab was scraped as smooth as  possible. This was the most difficult part of the job.

Then, the floor was leveled with 'self-leveling underlayment' and left to set.

The next day the underfloor insulation and backerboard floor boards were attached and topped-off with one 77 sq.ft. Elektra MG160/7.0/120V 1120 Watts in-floor radiant heating mat. The thermostat and the thermostat floor temperature sensor were installed followed by thinset and new tiles.

Working day in and day out as the Flooring Department Assistant Manager, I can really appreciate the quality of your product and the ease of installation. I am going to recommend this for our store.

Our new kitchen is a blast! Thank you.

Sincere regards.

Irene Ballanga

 Subfloor w/metal lathe  | Elektra mat installed  | READY!        

90 s.f. radiant floor ELEKTRA mat down in 2 hours over the plywood + metal lathe. This includes connection to the thermostat shown on the 3rd picture and to the floor temp. sensor.

THANK YOU FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL PRODUCT AND YOUR HELP.

Our upstairs bathroom was never heated 'since new' some 

80 years ago but now it finally will be.

The bathroom is not that big and we really did not wanted any wall or space heaters, but liked the idea of some heat since it can get really chilly. Now we will have all that's needed and better yet - exactly where needed.

Elektra materials used: 1. UCCG programmable thermostat.

2. MG160/2.5/120V 28 s.f. in-floor mat.

Thank you for this simple and really ideal product. You should patent it!

Irina Allerov,

SF, CA

Thank you ELEKTRA for our service entrance driveway electric snowmelt & de-icing system. The system is working without problems every winter.

As requested, enclosed are original installation pictures from our files. 

Maintenance Dpt. Mgr.

Note from ELEKTRA:

Installed 1999.

Cables used: Self regulating Tyco-Raychem, US made.  

The goal: to convert the unused, unpleasant, unheated basement into an easy to clean, nice, and well lit place for all the kids. Children, their play buddies, their wars and peace, all the toys, crayons, and general cosmic chaos otherwise known as a happy mess kids love to thrive in.

To top it off: the closed circuit camera connected to the monitor right above our kitchen countertop. Homeland Security can have it - so can we.

To start:

Inexpensive perfect floor, resistant to spills, crayons, water paints and the 'genius' of 6 & 7 years olds with unlimited time to explore things.

Instead of: baseboard heater, space heater (no way!), extending/opening the existing ducts: warm floor.

'Ideal Heating' offered the right answer and good product.

Products: 

Two 'Electra' MG100/12.0/240V mats with one UCCG-9991-EA  Elektra thermostat to cover 260 s.f. out of the 300s.f. of this room. The floor and the radiant floor heating completed in 3 days.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

THIS IS ONE VERY COOL BUT AT THE SAME TIME NICELY WARM product.

$3000 cheaper than the hydronic system for this bathroom with no compromise in quality. We are impressed with the standard 10 year warranty and 3 hours installation (shown on the pictures). We liked the installation but we love the way it makes the floor warm! Coincidently this is the only electric product we have in our new house with this much standard manufacturer warranty and nobody bothering us with "buy our great extended warranty" gimmick pushed nowadays by everybody and their uncle in the appliance business so you end up with the $405 bill for $299.99 product.

Yoshi

• After careful research into various options - here we are: 730 square ft. in 2 zones controlled by 2 thermostats.

• All completed in 8 hours.

• Pictures show about 2/3rd stapled to the subfloor with the kitchen and 2 baths + laundry room to go.

• Ready for the metal lath (in areas not covered by mats), then thinset + tiles.

• 90% cheaper than hydronic systems would have cost - not to mention the time saved.

• Warranty 10 years.

• Expected service: 20-30 years of continuous use = lifetime in reality.

• Floor elevation due to mats: just 1/8"+!!

• PERFECT!!  LOOKING FORWARD TO THE UNIQUE EFFECT OF RADIANT FLOOR HEATING DURING COLDER WEATHER BECAUSE THE HOUSE HAS GREAT LOOKING HIGH CEILINGS GIVING A SPACIOUS FEEL BUT FAR FROM IDEAL FEATURE FOR STANDARD HVAC HOT AIR HEATING.

• ADDING THIS RADIANT FLOOR HEATING CREATES A TRUE HYBRID HEATING SYSTEM AND IN FACT IS AN IMPORTANT UPRADE TO THE EXISTING HEATING SYSTEM. VERY IMPRESSIVE!

Timeline of the installation:

7-28-05

Installing the flex conduit before drywall is installed.  

7-30-05

8:05AM

Floor measured one more time to make sure that 28 s.f. mat will fit well. We were told that it is better to have smaller mat then one little too large.

8:25AM

Unrolling the mat. Few cuts and turns.

8:45AM

Return wire brought back to the thermostat box on the wall.

9:10AM

Thermostat floor temperature sensor installed in the conduit.

9:35AM

Mat (mesh) stapled to the sub-floor.

10:10AM 

Mat's resistance checked with the meter: 38.9 Ohms between blue and black wires.

10:15AM

Cold (white) power wires from the mat connected to the thermostat along with power "hot", "neutral" and floor sensor.

10:50AM

Floor ready for the mud job and tiles.

Thank you.

It was really easy and pleasure to work with. Looking forward to the warm floors.

Keith

We always knew that radiant floor heating in our new house was a must. Perhaps not for primary heat, but for the mere comfort and for the avoidance of cold tiles. After doing some extensive research, the most we could find were tube/water based hydronic PEX radiant floor systems. We were perfectly okay with this, but just as our new house in the making approached its finishing stage...we ran into a small problem. Our budget for our long planned hydronic PEX radiant heating system (which, at this point, we calculated that it would cost us about $10K) was beginning to find its way on the list of project budget cuts. 

Thankfully, we stumbled across ELEKTRA, and thier professional installers helped us accomplish our warm-floor project at a fraction of the cost! In addition to the low price, we recieved a warranty 5 times longer than what other companies were offering. Our warm floor was up and running in our bathrooms, front and back entrances, the kitchen, and the laundry room the very same day ELEKTRA arrived!

Thanks for everything ELEKTRA!

Sincerely,

Christie Sama

Good Day.

We ordered 2 heating mats for 195 s.f. coverage of the kitchen & dining room floors and one programmable GFCI thermostat with floor temperature sensor. 

As promised here is the description of what happened since we received the package:

Both mats were 20" wide. One was almost 60 ft. long to cover first 100 s.f. The other was 52 ft long to cover remaining 88+ s.f.

First the bigger one then the smaller mat were carefully and evenly spread on the floor in less than 2 HOURS!

We played two small installation tricks:

1.While the first mat was being installed, we left some room by the wall for the second mat. Because of this we did not have to extend any wires from the second mat to reach the thermostat box.

2. The first mat was "started" right by the wall where the thermostat was to be located even though we did not cared about this corner being or not being heated. This way the sensor from the thermostat was 2" away from the heating element but only 2-3" into the floor - measured from the wall. Because of this, we were able to installed it in the flex conduit included in the package - just like suggested in the manual. You can see this on the right side of the first picture.

Once we were satisfied with the layout - the electric stapler was used to staple the mats to the old subfloor.

 "Cold" white connecting cords were run up the wall to the single gang box on the wall where the thermostat box was installed and we were ready to tile next morning.

SO SIMPLE and SO GOOD!

I wish all of the building products - not only sophisticated models like these floor and tile heaters - had this simple installation process.

I am so happy that I caught this product just in time before new floor tiles were installed!

THANK YOU!

Sonya Barry

New London, CT 06320

First picture shows the bathroom with 45 sq.ft. of open floor space.

Second picture is of Elektra VCD10/550 240V 550Watts, 2.4A heating cable installation. This cable is 178 ft. long. 

This cable installation was easy and everything was ready for the tile installers within two hours.

Now - as the 3rd picture shows - it only needs the electrician to connect the thermostat and the new owners to enjoy.

Mike

Pleasure to work with.

Great product.

PICTURES:

• DINING AREA MATS,
• KITCHEN FLOOR BEFORE TILING,
• KITCHEN FLOOR MATS IN THE PROCESS OF TILING OVER,

Thank you.

Bryce

Good price, better than good results.

Thank you,

John Levikof

Radiant floor heating in 5 hours? Our contractor could not belive it. Well, he was ALMOST right.

It was actually 7.

Thank you for all your help. It works great! Mike - our contractor will be calling you about installers pricing.

Roger Morris

Installation took less than 2 hours including electrical hookup. The floor was ready in 1 day without grouting and 3 days later grouted and cozy warm. WHAT A SIMPLE AND GREAT PRODUCT! Thank you. John Bennedict, Chicago, IL

Hi. As promised, here are the pictures of my radiant floor heating installation.

The pictures illustrate the following...

1. Mat being laid out in front of shower, lavatory, and water closet. Row on left radiates from thermostat, row on right is the return (two sided install). The layout took approximately 15 minutes.
2. Picture of red fish line used to pull temperature sensor and heating cables into thermostat outlet box. (Note notch in base of wall and GFCI receptacle to additionally protect the circuit)
3. Finished tile floor ready to be warmed as soon as the weather gets cold.

Overall the installation went without a hitch. The only thing I believe that can make the installation a little easier would be some further clarification on the exact location of the temperature sensor, perhaps some info on how to notch out the wonderboard so the cables will lay flat (some DIY may not think of this), as well as some information on how to measure the resistance of the mats to ensure that you never cut the mat during installation. The only step that I don't have a picture for is the one where I covered the entire floor, mat and all with self leveling cement. This step was absolutely crucial due to the small nature of my tile 1x2".

Trying to level each tile with all the thinset required to cover the mats and cables would have been a messy nightmare. I would therfore definately advise your clients to use the self leveling concrete for anything smaler than 6 x6 tile.

Thanks again for all your help. I hope you can put these pictures and text to use in your website. I will definately refer my friends to you in the future. I have a feeling they will be drooling over my heated floor.

Sincerely, Brian

I wasn't really sure if I wanted warm floors, because it all seemed so complicated: How wrong I was.

Our flooring contractor was to begin tiling the kitchen floor on Tuesday morning. Monday afternoon, we decided that we wanted warm floors. To make a long story short, everything was ready to be tiled by Monday evening. Mind you, I'm talking about 200 square feet of floor heating mats! Despite it adding 20% to the total floor cost, it's well worth it.

We're now putting up our house for sale, and having an advertisement 'with radiant floor heating' makes it stand out from the crowd.

Thank you Ideal!

BARBARA B.

The ELEKTRA cable contractor was very punctual. He did one bathroom for us just like agreed and showed us how to install the cable in the kitchen. We did the kitchen floor in 3 hours! Mike, our electrician checked out both jobs and I feel like we too, are experts now. My husband wants his shop done the same way and when time comes for finishing the beasement. It will get done the same way.

Great product. Thanks a bunch.

Grace Donnatella

When I saw how wonderful stamp concrete is and how closely it resembles the beauty of natural stone, I had to have it done that way. The only problem was that concrete hates salt and snowplows. We don't like the snow on our driveways and walkways, so... one thing let to another and VOILA! It is all heated now!

Pictures show:

1. What looks like the swimming pool is actually the driveway with insulation and blue Elektra concrete heating cables. 30W/sq.ft.! 

2. Almost all stages of the job: concrete heating cables + 2 color staining and stamping still wet concrete

3. Finished product. HEATED for snow and icemelting!

Thank you, you're the best!

We never belived that after one short hour, we could have a warm floor, ready to be tiled. ELEKTRA made it possible with their radiant floor heating systems. Not only do we have comfortable floors, but the floor heating also added value to our kitchen, and our home.

Thank you.

Marius & Eva Smulski,

Union, NJ

...FOR OUR FANTASTIC HOUSE!!!

Starting from just one bathroom, we're going to have most of the floors planned to have tiles installed heated this way.

Pictures:

THE HOUSE,

       THE BREATGHTAKING NYC VIEW,

             THE WORK.

WAY TO GO!

THANK YOU.

Paul

Rock Spring Assciates 

The installation was a snap!

I zigzagged the mat's mesh across the concrete floor before the tile setter arrived. My neighbors came over to see the work in progress. We were all impressed with the simplicity and clear instructions.

We love the gentle warmth from the floor. No more hot air blasting down from the ceiling.

Thanks for all your help.

Joan Ward, NV