When it comes to in floor heaters you have a choice.
Heat not working on first floor.
Fortunately fixing a broken in floor heater is possible.
A common cause of problems with any in floor radiant heating system is a defective wall thermostat.
You will get heat and buy time to troubleshoot the valve for possible replacement.
Follow these steps to get to the source of the problem.
If this red light in the top right corner of the thermostat does not turn on check your programming.
Make sure your target temperature is higher than the floor temperature reading.
Last week 1st flr heat stopped working.
Walking on a cold floor with bare feet should be banned as a cruel and unusual punishment by the geneva conventions.
If your heat is not working the first thing to do is figure out why.
Forecasted to be cold in a couple of days need to fix this.
As always let s back up a bit for a little background information.
Check this zone valve at the boiler and move the lever manually to the open position this will permit hot water to calculate through the first floor zone.
In most cases the cause of a furnace heating system not working is actually a malfunctioning thermostat or a tripped breaker or blown fuse and not a problem with the furnace itself.
Please make sure that when you are programming the thermostat that the red light comes on during times when you would like your floor to heat.
My in floor heater is not working.
Moreover the first floor zone valve has failed to open.
Thermostats that do not open correctly will cause the room to become too hot.
Heat loss due to infiltration increases 135 not 100 from 35f to 0 f and since the first floor is where the cold air typically comes into a structure this is where most of the increase of infiltration for the whole structure takes place.
If the good thermostat from other level works on first floor the current first floor thermostat at is bad.
Make sure your thermostat is set.
Hot water or.
With the furnace warm if i manually open the 1st flr zone valve we get heat to the 1st flr.
A failed circulation pump motor.