Install Baseboard Heater With Wall Thermostat

Thomas with cadet tech support shows you how to install a double pole wall thermostat on a 240 volt electric baseboard heater.

Install baseboard heater with wall thermostat.

If you have two or more heaters in a large room place the thermostat in a central location. 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. 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. 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. Mount wall thermostats used with a baseboard heater across the room from the heater. Many apartments are using electric baseboard heaters for heat in apartments. A new line voltage thermostat will need to be connected as part of the installation of the new baseboard heater.

Many apartments are using electric baseboard heaters for heat in apartments. Route remaining supply and ground wire 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. Careful attention to specific wiring connections will result in a successful.

Check out our voltage blog pos. Route remaining thermostat wire marked t1 to the baseboard heater. Double pole wall thermostat route supply wires to the thermostat wiring box if not already present. 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.

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. Either way connecting a thermostat is a relatively straightforward process that most people can complete less than 1 2 hour. They are typically mounted at the same height as wall switches. The thermostat may be attached to an external wall or to the heater itself.

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.