Cable Mat in-screed floor heating system provides comfort heating in bathrooms, bedrooms, kitchens, dining rooms and other living areas.
Mat design VS heating cable on a roll
Traditional in-screed floor heating installations involved complicated procedures and steel mesh/strips to clip the free-form heating cable supplied on a roll in place. Careful planning is also required to ensure there are no hot or cold spots. However, the unique Cable Mat design, introduced in Australia by Amuheat in 2008, offers a simpler & risk free installation process where compared to a free-form heating cable supplied on a roll.
Unique mat & tough cable design
Cable Mat floor heating system consists of a heating cable attached in serpentine loops to a mesh layer using three tape strips which help keep the heating cable spacing uniform, while still allowing easy removal of the heating cable during installation to free form around fixed objects such as a floor waste drain found on a bathroom floor. Tape strips or an adhesive backing on the underside of the mesh allows the installer to stick the mat heater directly to the floor during the layout process.The double insulated heating cable emits no measurable electromagnetic fields due to its steel earthing braid wound around the twin Fluropolymer (Teflon) insulated heating conductor, and the heating cable terminates onto a single 3m long cold tail lead which is easy to embed in screed before it feeds up the conduit/wall to the thermostat location.
Simple to install
The proven ease of installation makes Cable Mat ideal for trades to install, without requirement of special tools or experience in planning floor heating layouts.
Sizes to suite any floor layout
Cable Mat is available in 230V and in heat outputs of 150W/m² (6 different sizes) for use in living and bedrooms and 200W/m² (11 different sizes) most suitable for use in bathrooms and other wet areas. Multiple mats are connected to a single thermostat for large areas where more than 1 mat heater is required.
| Application | Direct & background heating for installation over concrete or F/C sheet floors. The mat is embedded in-screed directly beneath most hard floor finishes including tile, floating and timber floors. |
| Mat Construction | Comprises of a flexible fiberglass mesh with the looped heating element uniformly affixed to it. Tape strips or adhesive backing on the bottom side of the mat heater allows for fixing the mat heater to the floor. The heating element terminates to 3m length cold leads at one end of the mat heater. |
| Element Construction | Self regulating twin heating conductor with a primary Fluoropolymer (Teflon) insulation, then layered with a steel earth braid and a final outer PVC insulation sheath. |
| Voltage | 230V AC |
| Output Power | From 100 to 200W/m² |
| Control | Analog or Digital Programmable room or floor sensing (or a combination of both) thermostat |
| Safety | Connection to electrical supply must conform to AS/NZS 3000 wiring regulations. The heating cable is tested to be IPX7 & IEC60335 compliant, and is safe for use in wet area Zones 1, 2, 3 as per AS/NZS 3000 wiring regulations |
| Warranty | 20 Years (as of 1 April 2020) |
Cable Mat 20 Range – for bathrooms
| Product Code | Mat Size (mtr) | Floor Area (m²) | Watt @ 230V | Amp @ 230V |
| CM200-20T | .5 x 2 | 1 | 200 | 0.9 |
| CM300-20T | .5 x 3 | 1.5 | 300 | 1.3 |
| CM400-20T | .5 x 4 | 2 | 400 | 1.7 |
| CM500-20T | .5 x 5 | 2.5 | 500 | 2.2 |
| CM600-20T | .5 x 6 | 3 | 600 | 2.6 |
| CM700-20T | .5 x 7 | 3.5 | 700 | 3.0 |
| CM800-20T | .5 x 8 | 4 | 800 | 3.5 |
| CM900-20T | .5 x 9 | 4.5 | 900 | 3.9 |
| CM1000-20T | .5 x 10 | 5 | 1000 | 4.3 |
| CM1200-20T | .5 x 12 | 6 | 1200 | 5.2 |
| CM1400-20T | .5 x 14 | 7 | 1400 | 6.1 |
Cable Mat 15 Range – for living areas
| Product Code | Mat Size (mtr) | Floor Area (m²) | Watt @ 230V | Amp @ 230V |
| CM750-15T | .5 x 10 | 5 | 750 | 3.3 |
| CM900-15T | .5 x 12 | 6 | 900 | 3.9 |
| CM1200-15T | .5 x 16 | 8 | 1200 | 5.2 |
| CM1500-15T | .5 x 20 | 10 | 1500 | 6.5 |
| CM1800-15T | .5 x 24 | 12 | 1800 | 7.8 |
| CM2250-15T | .5 x 30 | 15 | 2250 | 9.8 |
Installation of Cable Mat is a simple process and offers a reduced installation time compared to traditional free form in-screed heating cable systems. After the subfloor has been prepared (cleaned and in some cases primed with a bonding agent), Cable Mat is rolled out and stuck to the floor using the attached adhesive tape strips or adhesive backing. The flooring can immediately be installed after the final heater test & after the element fault monitor is connected to the mat heater cold tail lead.