Saturday, January 1 2022
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The interior plans have changed slightly, but here is the walk-through of the original 3D model I created. The model was place on the exact spot in Google Earth so I could virtually review placement and views out the windows. Click on the picture to launch the video. Beulah Model Rendering ...
Sunday, January 2 2022
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Just got finished installing an awesome product, Ecofoil, that acts as a thermally reflective and vapor barrier. Weighed down with existing rebar cages and rebar lengths. We're hopeful the crew can rebar the slab so we can add the radiant heat pipe next weekend. ...
Friday, January 14 2022
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We've spent the last week installing radiant or hydronic heat pipe on the slab. We're using 1/2" Oxygen Barrier PEX for the tubing. I used LoopCad to do the intial layout using a 30 day trial period license. Our GC didn't want any of the tubing to go under interior walls so I had to modify the routing to suit. We spent the first day just laying out the floor plan on the vapor barrier using green paint. The next day we started the effort of installing the PEX under the rebar -- another requirement of the GC. Uncoiling the PEX was certainly a challenge -- especially in the cold. Commercial PEX unwinders cost around $700 and the local rental centers didn't have any for rent. After...
Saturday, January 15 2022
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Here is a video of how we built the $25 PEX Unwinder. Click on the photo to launch the video. PEX Unwinder Thumbnail.jpg ...
Monday, January 17 2022
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As you can see, we have the radiant tubing installed below the rebar. We needed to keep it under the rebar and not passing through walls, since the GC is concerned the fasteners he is using for interior wall base plates could penetrate the tubing. If you enlarge this photo, you can see the 2' x 2' rebar grid, and the green paint outline of walls and rooms we chose not to heat. (Closets and Pantry). We used approximately 2100 ft of tubing, and over 1600 8" zip ties. We photo documented the installation for future reference purposes. DCIM\100MEDIA\DJI_0013.JPG...
Saturday, January 22 2022
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This week the crew poured the footings and slab. Our GC - K & C Construction did the work, augmented by other local work crews. 1-20-2022 they poured 7 trucks or around 70 yards of concrete in the footings with the help of a concrete pump. The next morning, they stripped the anchor bolt forms off and poured the slab with the assistance of ten crew and an arial concrete pump. A total of ten trucks of fiber-reinforced concrete (or around 100 yards) were poured at around 25 minute intervals. The GC sent Maddog for pizza and soda. After that, the crew ate lunch and prceeded to trowel the semi-set concrete. Finally they covered the slab with insulated plastic blankets to keep the surface from...
Sunday, January 30 2022
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Here we see insulation being place in the forms, Ecofoil radiant barrier installation, vapor barrier insulation, rebar, radiant heating tubing and concrete pour. Subseqently, the forms were stripped off and flashing installed. Materials used by us: Radiant Barrier Insulation PEX-B Radiant Tubing Click on the photo to start the video Monoslab Pour ...
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