Problem with UFH

[McP77]

I was doing some work at a customer's house today and she asked me to program her underfloor heating as she hadn't got around to it. (I didn't fit the UFH)

I switched the stat on (warmup t-stat), set the time, put the other info in etc. As soon as I asked it to start warming up it kicked in and blew the fuse.

Has anybody come across this before or know why the fuse would blow?

 

[enduro]

Hope the cable under the tiles hasnt been cut, has she had it working before?

 

[DHTiling]

alright mcp mate...pm dan he will know as he's well into ufh.......dave...

 

[McP77]

Hope the cable under the tiles hasnt been cut, has she had it working before?

No it's only just been wired up. It has been tested for continuity though.

 

[McP77]

alright mcp mate...pm dan he will know as he's well into ufh.......dave...

Cheers, will do

 

[Dan]

This could be anything but certainly is a problem. Warmup PLC have a tehnical team tat crawl around the country fixing Warmup underfloor heating systems so my advice would be to tell Mrs Customer to give Warmup a call and get their tech-guys out to check the system and obviously not to use it before they check it.

It could be a damage in the cable... if it is you can fix it with little effort. It could be a power-related problem or it could just be a faulty stat.

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