Thanks Harry,

I got thinking about that after my last post. Who cares if it takes a while to set up? But a contractor does care. He wants to set the guides, lay the cable and get it covered in one trip to the site so I now understand that perspective.

Here's a tip for planning the cable layout - Google SketchUp. My contractor and I used it to design my house but you can use it to design just about anything. Make the cable guide as a component and you can easily duplicate it. Draw the cable as a series of lines connected by semicircles and "entity info" will give you the exact length of cable you need. For those not familiar with SketchUp, it's a free download from Google. There are online tutorials and various "Dummies" books to get you started.

And thanks for this great site!
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Yeg

Canadian Tire has the glue sticks you want. Usually, the heavy duty glue sticks are yellow or amber in colour. The clear is usually light duty, and the white is medium duty.

Thanks Brian,

I hadn't thought of Canadian Tire but I will check them out. I'll still use PL to fasten the guides but will use hot glue to spot fasten the cable mid-span and for the joint between the hot and cold leads.
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Yeg

Thanks to advice from this forum, I got my Nuheat cable installed without a hitch. I glued the guides with Titebond Construction Adhesive, then laid the cable the next day using contractor-grade hot glue from Canadian Tire (thanks Brian). I did use hot glue for a 4" piece of cable guide at the end of the cable and that worked well, so if I ever do this again I'll try setting all of the guides with hot glue.

I've posted 3 photos in the gallery.

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Yeg

Why can't you put down spider wire over the slape before the nu-heat

You know that this post is over a year and a half old. I would hope that this project is done by now.