John McGaw wrote:
Jack wrote:
You can do it but have to find the cables first. Choose teh area you
want to hang something. Turn the heat on and spray the area with some
water in a spray bottle. The cable should show up as a thin line.
StephenPa wrote:
I'm moving into a home with ceiling radiant heat.
I have a candleabra that hangs from the ceiling. I usually just buy a
butterfly clamp and suspend from the ceiling. I also usually hang
decrorative chimes with cup hooks from the ceiling. IS this possible
with radiant heat? Please email me,
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StephenPa
One of the little non-contact electrical detector pens will probably
work a lot more reliably. One with a wide range of sensitivity
adjustments can get you within an inch even through thick drywall. In
some installations the heaer wires are spaced 6" apart so some
precision is needed and there is no going back -- break a wire and
you've broken the heat for the whole room (or maybe only half of it if
the room is huge).
Just realized that I made a small but important mistake in the previous
posting: the wires are far closer than 6" -- more like 2" based on a
look at a piece of the mudded ceiling drywall left over from the ongoing
basement rec room remodel.
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John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com