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I bic'd it yesterday hahaha

 

I've never saw it used but I learned a lil about it in school last year

 

You get frost build up yet? Lol

 

would it not also create a large transition from heated to non heated areas, and would mean that the doors need to be cut down?

 

Compensate for it in the framing if you know your going to use it

 

true, but not too many houses have in floor heat throughout an entire floor, most just in bathrooms and kitchens. it's an 1 1/8th thick so you have to make that up somehow from heated to non heated. to me it creates more problems than it solves, unless you do the entire floor with it.

 

It definitely wakes you up walking outside in -20 even with a little breeze haha

One day i'll be rich and have in floor heating, that'd be awesome

 

Gotcha. Wasn't reading your post right .

 

ah, I see... still don't like it.

 

That's a big expense to add 1 1/8" ply..... Be cheaper to just use the product through out the house lol

 

probably would be, and you know some cracked out flooring guy would staple the shit out of the water lines when putting down hardwood (engineered hardwood of course).

 

Anyone have a solution to seized tumblers in locks?

 

Lol very true

We have done a few places with radiant heating. Two used the lines set right in the concrete and one was set into 11/2" of self leveling grout

 

Salt me thinks

 

I guess you would only have to make up 3/8", but in my experience flooring guys have by far the lowest "give a shit" factor of any trade and would F it up somehow.

 

what kind you gonna make??

Welcome back

 

we do a lot of hydronic in floor heating systems. in the slab in basements and garages, and on the bottom side of the sheathing everywhere else. generally with 1/2" pex lines about 12" apart in slabs and two 1/2" pex lines per joist space elsewhere. joist spaces then get insulated with bubble foil insulation.

 

A guy I did some work for kept stressing to me about his in floor heat and not to drill any holes into etc etc.

He grabs a drill one day to do some work on a Sunday, ending up drilling a half inch hole through the main feed line lol