Good Morning, Morgans! Mike, as far as the foam panels goes, we just did what you did, then used sand to adjust the last 1/4 inch. It works fine. And there's nothing wrong with attention to detail. You've worked hard to pay for this building. You should want to do it the right way! God Bless!
Used the same system when I did my garage last year. Worked great. Saxonburg area so similar conditions. Connected to a mohoning outdoor boiler. Super nice this winter. Best advice I got from a pro was keep your pex 2-3 ft from exterior walls as that is where you may need to drill in to the concrete to mount things like air compressor, shelves, etc. He was right.
Jonathan ... last place we did this we left a "map" of all stuff buried in the concrete (pipes, conduit, etc) showing where the gaps were. The owner had plans for a vehicle lift, air compressor, etc and wanted to drill into the floor in the future. BTW, a lift usually needs more than 4" of concrete and usually more rebar for a certain distance in several directions.
Hey Mike, great way to heat a building. I'm in north-central Ohio, installed radiant floor heat in my 40x60 garage, used pea gravel base, 4'x8' x 2" thick blue insulation panels, taped the seams with 2" wide tape, stapled down tubing, heat with a Navien LP wall hug hot water heater. System is 9 years old, very dependable, economical. Blg is on a full foundation, 2"x6" walls. I spent a little more on the walls & insulation. Insulation is the key IMHO. Thanks to you guys for the great videos.
All-nighters! A common practice for high achievers. I’ve pulled my fair share over the years, always with purpose and drive. As I look back over my decades of life, I realize that there are significant trade-offs. When it saps ones strength, takes time away from family, or sends the wrong signal to others on the team, it’s unbalanced behavior. How well I recall the day after an all-nighter before Thanksgiving in the late ‘80s when upon my return home in the morning, I found my Bible opened to Psalm 127. A timely, and life-long message gently shared to me by my wife. It’s worth a read!
hi guys jimmy from Tn. I haven't done a heat floor but the best trick I have seen is to pressurize with air before pouring concrete. If the concrete guys punch a hole in the tubing it will make air bubbles in the concrete that you can see and you can fix it before the concrete sets. Enjoy the videos
@@mikesr3407 ... if you higher a contractor to lay the pipe they will absolutely pressurize the pipe before the pour. In most cases it's required to pass a building inspection.
Good point! And take some detailed pictures prior to pouring in case you ever decide you need anchors in the floor for something. Pretty easy to lay out a tape each way so you can know where things are. If your spacing is consistent with your grid, it should be simple.
Hey Mike, I have been in the heating and a/c business my whole life and have installed hundreds of radiant heat systems. It is definitely worth the added cost and you will love the level of comfort and energy savings you will achieve with the system.
Hi Mike, never commented before. We built our house in Maine last year using radiant and those panels. Up here we use a layer of sand to level up under the concrete. When you lay the tubing in, the posts do a good job in the straights, but we found using a foam stapler really helped keep the tubing down around the turns, otherwise when the concrete guys walk on it the tubing can pop up. Best of luck to you guys, love watching your channel.
Slow & steady...perfection!! My ? Is...How and the heck do you find time to make these videos with everything going on. Not long now before daughter Hannah’s HUGE wedding. GOD Bless y’all... Thank you for keeping all your fans entertained.
What a great treat for my Wednesday! Starting work later today, and had a chance to sit out on the patio with a big cup of coffee and watch you guys work! Have a beautiful day! 👍🙏
Mike everything new is a learning experience, which is good. You figure something out and then it's easier for the next person, watching you do it for the first time.
It is the most amazing way to heat your home. My first experience of this was in Ketchum, ID many years ago which is at the foot of Bald Mt in Sun Valley, ID. My babysitter for my kids lived in a small home her father had built back in the 1950’s. He left his will that for so many generations forward they were forbidden to sell the property but use it as he had built it. He built this mostly concrete structure that had a sunken tub -a large one- that many could use together. The aroma of sulphur filled the air but was piping hot! He was brilliant in deciding to run pipes all through the floor of the house (think Fred and Wilma’s house) and was able to tap in to the natural hot springs out there on Warm Springs Road. The most heavenly feeling to be in that house and walk on the floors. I’ve never forgotten it and hoped to build my own version of that. Think of every object in the room absorbing the heat including ourselves. Therefore the most heat absorbing materials you use in the whole structure will be affected. I hope yours turned out good and you love it!
Mike, yes you are being too particular, but it’s your own building. You will have piece of mind and no problems because of your attention to detail. I was crazy fussy and particular when I built our home some 35 years ago, and that has paid off in a structure that has stood the test of time! Keep up the good work.
Every bit of detail you iron out now to be perfect that multiplies over time. Sure, you are spending more time but it will pay off with no creeeeeks or dips, over time. Everything shifts ground over time. Water table, humidity, snow outside and such. Mother earth always wins, but you are doing it right. Plus, Mrs. Morgan looks like an amazing partner to work with.
@RAH Capital Read his comment again. He didn't say the structure lasted. He said it stood the test of time, and in the context of this video, he means he had no issues with the structure. The structure of a home can have issues resulting in cracks, etc., without completely failing. It's not all or nothing.
Every week you get more real. I feel like I’m listening to my next door neighbor. The getting real is getting to know you and the family. The better I know you n the family the more I understand the things you do n why! This all good by the way👍
Good morning everyone. 73º in Kansas City. Mowing the lawn this morning in an attempt to beat the heat, 94º for the high today. Stay safe, be humble & kind and have a day.
Mike and Melissa, it makes my heart smile when I see and hear you start talking about your grandson. You both get smiles ear to ear while talking about him. Also, Mike, you are doing a great job doing the preparation for your in-floor heating system. The only issue I have with the in-floor heating system that I have is that it is very expensive to operate so I only use it for a backup heating system. I have it in all of my house including the garage so when in use it is heating close to 3,600 square feet of the house and garage. I also installed a geothermal system with air ducts that I actually heat and cool my house most of the time instead of using the in-floor system. I really like the in-floor system because you are comfortable all the time during the winter while running it, but it is really expensive to operate. My system has a small electric heating element, not exactly a boiler but an electric heating unit that heats all the water quickly and I have four zones to heat. Not sure what you are going to use to heat your water, but electricity I would imagine will be the most expensive. I really enjoy your videos and watching what you do and watching your family grow! (Tell Hunter hi from Iowa) Thanks, J.R.
I wish I could help, but you are the one giving me 'how to'. You struck me the very first video as a man that instinctively uses common sense when experience is lacking to finish as a professional. So many others just blunder through a project making tons of mistakes, never getting it right and leaving it that way. Not you. Hey I did like that helpful comment to use sand to level. Might be quicker? IDK, but I do know you will have it right when finished. Manoman, the insulation looks way better than I imagined, I am really enjoying this Mike. I do wish you had a couple guys helping you though, that is a huge area to do by yourself. I know Melissa was there, but her plate is already full, she can't stay. Again, as always this video was terrific, about 20 minutes of sweet! Thanks for sharing this awesome project, I literally can't wait till tomorrow. Oh, you really melted my heart telling us about Ty! Heck yeah he's an outdoor lover! He will ALWAYS love going over to your house and being w you, I'm sure of it! Mike Morgan is a real go-getter, tough as nails guy, but that little feller is going to be bringing out the big hearted softy in you more than you are expecting. That too I am anxiously waiting to see! See ya tomorrow! 👍🚜❤
you will not be disappointed. my garage is in ohio 40x60 I will never build anything without floor heat its evenly heated and no drafts or cold spots. love it!
We did it in our house and Garage! Only way to go guys! Unreal the way it heats and feels on the body!!! My neighbors told me I was crazy, but all you have to do, is ignore them 😂🤣😂😂😂🤣
Since you are working for yourself and not charging a customer by the hour, you cannot be too particular. Five years from now you will never say, "I wish I would have just slapped it together."
Looks good. We contracted the only floor heat system we have ever had on a job 2 years ago. They showed up with a crew of 15 people and were.done i1 1/2.days on 3700 square feet. I was completely lost on have they were doing it because they were moving so fast. 4 guys were maintaining level surface and rest were laying panels and pex. They worked 18 hours first day and worked 10 hrs second day and were done by noon. Home owner paid them on separate contract to have it done. Building was.for equipment storage.and some very nice antique cars along.with a nice 1000 square ft entertainment room over looking the Inter Coastal Waterway. Happy Bithday to Kate and Bi Hello to rest of family. See y'all on the next video.
Sleep. Think I've heard of It once. Didn't get to watch yesterday so spending my lunch break watching. Mike get the floor close and you'll be good to go. Hope all are well and we'll see you down the road.....
I never used that stuff before but I used foamalar 4x8 2in worked great YOU WILL LOVE LOVE heated concrete it’s the best I think you want some heat lost So it won’t freeze and heave In the winter the floor should never crack it worked awesome for me
Greetings M & M from S. E. Ohio.ove only been watching your channel for round 6-7 months and one thing that I noticed is when you,Mike do something you give it 100 percent. Love your channel have a wonderful rest of the day. Hello Hunter. And Happy Birthday Kate
Work ethic is born within all of us. Parent / Parents instill and develop it. So many families have parents with no ethic training. Major issue with our society today. Just thinking….
Mike , you are spot on with that foundation. When I had my building built . The contractor would spread material , compact it and then shoot it with the laser , he done this for a few days . My building is only 30x30 but the foundation is awesome and my concrete is spot on.
I used 2A to grade for my pole building before I put my insulation down for my radiant floor heat it really makes it go easy, I used a plate compactor it packs nicely and you are not kicking stones when you walk on it
After you lay down the tubing make sure you locate where the interior walls will go. Anchoring those walls with anchors, you may hit a tubing run. Good luck fixing that. That tubing becomes a hidden factor for future wall locations. It may take some time but I would make a drawing with dims. to show the location of the tubing before the concrete is poured. Good luck Mike!
Put that system in my house in southeast Texas. Using my floorplans I routed the tubes away from all walls and used doorways to go from room to room. Is not feasible down here where our cold snaps are just a few days long. It takes days to get the slab heated then your running the AC to keep the house cool, lol. Curious to see the boiler to heat the water.
@@lhr1701 no doubt great idea , Mike needs an excuse to get one anyway , great tool to spot deer or injured deer after dark ! So a guy can get his harvest before the coyote do !
I have 4500 sqft radiant floor in my building. You will love it. I have a Garn boiler that burns wood. I make 1 fire a day in the winter, 2000 gallon heat storage is great. Make shure you do a heat loss calculation and determine proper water temperature and tube spacing. It is important! Also have the tubing layout computer designed. You won't be sorry. Most suppliers will do the design and calculations for free if you buy the tubing from them. Use oxygen barrier pex! If you want to hear about my lessons let me know.
I just Melissa's workout video. Seeing her workout on a warm floor this winter will make the work worthwhile. especially a floor she helped create. You are working to Morgan quality standards, better than Governement, better than NASA. (You did not see two Morgan shuttles crash did you? ) One of the reasons Mike stopped his old job was to have time to do things like this Morgan Right. I have lived with hacked jobs and incomplete projects. There is a vast difference between that and the Morgan Way. God bless, protect, and comfort you all.
Happy Birthday Kate! God Bless the Morgans! It’s ok Mike to be particular! When I build something I like it to be right! Have a day Morgans!👍🙏❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Mike, ive never used that system, but i do know a couple of guys on the outdoor wood boiler who has used it. They used sand to level it out. They said sand will help with heat loss too. Love how your building is coming together. I recently pulled an all nighter and worked the next day outside. Needless to say that i am not as young as i once was. But i did make it!
Nothing wrong with attention to detail Mike.. Your building, your way..It will definitely be worth it and your attention to detail in all you guys do will prove out over the many years of enjoyment you will have with all the Morgan Family...Props to you both...Be safe and God Bless
Mike, you do projects like I do. I'm particular about what I do also. When my son and I put a new roof on my house, it took us forever because we were so picky. But the extra effort is worth it. Even with your panels buried beneath the concrete, you would be tormented forever if you knew that you had done the job less than perfect! I tell everyone that "perfect is good enough." I guess that's why I enjoy your videos so much. Keep up the good work!
We used 2” X 4x8 foam boards then sheet reinforcing wire then tied wirsbo pex to wire with rebar ties Concrete workers pulled wire and tubing up into concrete, my wife and I put tubing in basement and garage floor in one weekend and it was 100’ out and hotter in basement works great, went to 4 day school at wirsbo to learn how to size and install, working in HVAC FIELD
I have a cousin who has a building about the same size that they use as a machinery repair shop on their farm that is heated by radiant floor heat that is powered by an outdoor boiler. The day I was there it was about 20 below zero outside and about 75 inside. If I ever had to heat a building like that I’d definitely use an in-floor heating system. He also heats two houses with systems run by the outdoor boiler using wood he cuts from fence lines and downed trees from the woods on the property.
Good morning Mike and Melissa, looks good, thanks for sharing with us. Happy Birthday Kate,you all have fun at the zoo. Thanks for explaining about the two sizes of stone and their compaction, got to have some driveway work done, got to hire it done. You all stay safe, Hello to Hunter and the rest of the crew. Fred.🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋
Being from Texas I've never had or installed a floor heat system but your installation is looking great Mike. Your tolerances might be a little tight in my opinion but if you have the time, material, and tools to do it, why not.
Hi Mike, when we built my garage 19 years ago we used pea gravel for the top layer, then 1" pink foam board with wire on top, the heat pipe was wired to the wire. pretty easy, but your is your building and there is nothing wrong with being particular about it.
We do concrete and when we do in floor heat we use chips or sand for final grade. Gotta get it flat so the foam sits right. The weight of the concrete will settle it down but everything goes better if the base is flat. Do it right the first time! Keep being picky.
Rex here, love Melissa’s reflection in the finish of the tractor, nice photographic touch! I have completed many projects without the “proper know how and I applaud this protect, you guys! Love it!
Working mid-nights for 14 years and raising a family, I would do all nighters all the time. I was in my 30’s at that time and it wasn’t easy but sometimes had to be done, I thought! LOL! Now at 67, I look back at those days and realize how insane it was! LOL! Mike I can relate to you on so many levels! Love from Northwest Indiana! 🙏🏻💗👏👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Mike doing same thing except with 2" ridged foam is a pain to level perfectly, also going to add a heat exchange unit in corner for faster temperature recovery when doors are opened they have a unit with a blower behind it Great job isn't retirement great ! Also when studding walls measure posts mine are 5 1/4 ×41/4 had to rip down all studs. and check corner orientation if installing purlins inside to nail finish boards to
I helped my son use these panels in his basement. It is time consuming. There is no real shortcuts. We used limestone screenings but it still takes time and patience to get them right. If they are rocking by the time you get the pex run and the concrete down you will have problems if they are not laying flat. The system works great once it’s done. A very good system. There is nothing like floor heat. It’s the best, Good luck man…..
Hi guys...I live up in Greenville. Just did my garage with same board. Just remember that the pucks all have to line up so everything is on 3" centers. All of the grid lines should line up or putting the tubing in is a PITA. I used a TAKAGI point of use water heater and it works wonderful! If you have any questions just I gimme a jingle!
Just a little Math for the folks that seem To think the wet concrete will weigh down the foam if it’s not perfectly level. One yard of wet Concrete weighs 4050 lbs. one yard of concrete covers 81 sq ft 4” thick. That comes to 50 lbs per Sq foot. Or .3472 lbs per sq inch. So that isn’t going to move that rigid foam much at all if Any. So I am glad you took the time to do this right. I am doing my heated floor and am using 4” foam under My slab and sand is my final grade substrate with a 6ml vapor barrier under The foam on top of the sand. No movement walking across the foam for Me. Just a nice compact road base with sand topping grade.
I used a 3/4 minus stone and compacted it. It wasn't perfect and we were using 4x8 sheets of 2" foam. We stapled the PEX to the foam and laid a grid of #4 rebar over it. if there were voids under the foam, the weight of the concrete settled it to fill the void. We laid all the foam and pex in my 1000 SF garage in a couple of hours
Mike you are doing great on the floor, a buddy of mine built an auction house with radiant floor heat and never once ever had to run his ceiling heaters!. And your feet felt good on warm concrete!. used to get up at 3:30 am for work and now I'll sleep in to 5 or 6 am and I feel a lot better!. Morgans have a day!.
I installed a hard wood floor two days before Christmas one year and worked 18 hours straight on it.... that was 20 years ago. No more all-nighters here either!
Good Evening Mike and Melissa... Flooring going to be great with that radiant heat. Mike puling all-nighters reminds me of something told to me long ago. What I used to do all night now takes me all night to do. Age is not selective, it gets all of us. Going on 74 laps round Sol the 27th this month. Been there ~ done it too, Have a good day and better evening to you and Melissa.
I worked in several shops with floor heating and it was so comfy in the winter to have warm feet while the room was only 62 degrees. They also had wall mounted radiators to do "catch up" when the doors had to be opened. BTW, warm floors are also quick to dry if you track in snow or rain.
Radiant heat is hard to beat. It is the same type of heat that burning firewood gives. Same with the sun. When the concrete floor gets poured, Mike can fly the drone inside the building for great overhead shots.
Having helped lay a few radiant floor heating system in different states I have seen them laid different ways, Some use just dirt, some pea gravel, some sand, and a bunch a mixture. It all depends on your Codes and what you have to work with. That 2A stone looks like it has some dirt in it, bring in a load of sand to top that 2B stone off. First time is always a real learning curve and each time you either relearn or lean something new. After you lay your foam board take a chalk line and mark where your walls are going, that way you will not lay your pipe under your walls(learned that one hard)
The radiant heat is great I have a friend that put that in their new home here in Minnesota and with the way winters are here it keeps their house at 70 degrees
👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🙏🏻 Enjoyed! Glad to see you understand taking it a little easier! And "TIME" flies as you get older, especially if you stay busy without doors stuff and everyday maintenance around the home place. Glad I live in Texas, but on another subject I would never have pipes in a concrete slab and that's the way they used to do it in Texas.....fixing a leak is a bear as well as finding it. Used to live in Iowa...great having a basement with no pipes in the floor. In Texas they now use pex in the walls and ceilings with no problems with freezing. The pex will expand enough to tolerate freezing or you just let a faucet drip. They use a manifold with no water connections in the walls or ceiling to leak. Make sure you have NO pex connectors in the slab and you should be OK.
normally i try to get the board bonding as close to centres like laying bricks. it helps to keep the product straight. you will be seeing them boards in your sleep tonight..Great show guys.
Can only sleep for 6 hours and always have and a knight owl. Worked for 43 years, 11 to 7 AM loved it, went to training for maintenance shift 7 to 7PM.Getting up at 5:30 AM for 36 years. But still sleep 6 hours or less. Retires and still sleep 6 hours or less. Life is sweet!
I’m getting ready to build a 1,200 sq ft detached garage with radiant floor heat and the plan is to put the foam on sand. I’m no expert, but the concrete will take care of any irregularities in the levelness of the stone. I have floor heat in my basement and garage and it’s awesome. I also have a geothermal system and it heated the house very well this past winter. Looking forward to seeing the completion of the floor
Advise for anyone doing this after watching video.. Hire someone to do closed cell spray foam on the ground. Gives a monolithic insulation and you can staple your tubing right to it. Worked great on my building. Super fast.. !!!
I found it when you underlay your concrete pours with foam it’s incredibly forgiving of the ground it will sort of mold and it will let the high points kind of push through the foam a little bit and adapt. Even years later when you pull the concrete out the foam is usually pretty well intact. It does a very good job of sort of spraying the weight out. It’s important always to ensure your foundation is solid but I’m pretty sure if you had just thrown all of that down it would’ve been absolutely fine. On the way to the concrete goes on it it’s sort of pushes everything down and the foam can bend and give a little here and there where it needs to and if you have a sharp or High Point on a rock it will just push into the phone and the phone will still form a solid base and not high center on those little bumps. It’s all very very forgiving. Even cutting the edges. I tend to be a perfectionist and try to do everything which is why everything takes me so long but concrete always going to drip down the side a little and as long as you’re getting a thick enough pad on top it will fill those gaps. I’ve even seen when they didn’t have enough foam and left a few inches between sheets of foam end it still supports everything, the concrete feels those gaps well anyway and once it cures it all becomes part of the structure. Leaving those big gaps with some thing I thought would be a point of failure but it’s kind of like suspending a shed or anything else you don’t have to have every bit of the flooring be a footing as long as it suspended evenly and not going to be moving much. Yours looks great and will be more than fine. To speed it up you could just be less particular but I know you’re not gonna do that, I probably wouldn’t either but in reality it probably wouldn’t make enough of a difference to ever notice.
Looks like things are coming along very well. I think all of you are really going to enjoy it. I vote for the wood look concrete inside and out. I’ve seen it and it is beautiful! But it’s Your choice and I’m sure it will be beautiful whatever you choose to do. #HaveADay #OWTM #Outdoorgans
Good day everyone. It has been hot here in Missouri. Right now, it is 92. We needed the break from the rain, so the farmers can get their crops in. It’s really interesting the radiant floor heat. I have been planning on building a house on my farm and looking at different options. I am looking into heat pumps, furnace, radiant floor heat and geothermal heating and cooling. With the price of lumber, I have had to put a pin in it.
We use that radiant floor system we used stone dust mixed in with The Rock it helped out a lot with the little low you know Valley's in there and when you're putting the pecs down they had Staples they suggested for us to use and you can get this long pole and it's like a staple thing and you just won't be you don't have to bend down but everything else you're doing it right looks great keep up the good work
Mike it is hard to imagine it, but this style of heating is pretty amazing, compared to the conventional heating methods (electric ceiling, electric baseboard, electric space heater(s), electric or gas forced air ducted), but it is a pretty awesome system. If you were being sold on it by a contractor type, you would probably be focused on the cost, and yes it is not the cheapest. I would say a person would need to tour a location that had a system in place and operating during the cold part of your year. If there wasn’t an opportunity to do this, there is a “leap of faith” that would be taken by a person to go with this system. I have this very system in a 2500 sq ft single level house, in NW Montana. Gas fired boiler, a with a domestic water maker, 6-zones, including my 2.5 car garage. I/we love it...! I would have configured my zones a little differently, now that we have been in the house for all four seasons, but no regrets. Great video, Thank you sir
Floor is going to be fantastic ! Mike I've only done it a couple of times but during the rut I sat dark to dark ! Once with a tiny stand 7 yrs ago and last 2 seasons in my millennium Monster stand ! Hardest part is staying awake ! Bowhunt or Die ! Have a Day ! 👍👍👍
Did an NHL hockey rink. We used screeds and sand with 2 layers of polystyrene, so very similar. Wooden skewers at 45 deg angle to hold the 2 layers of poly together.
You don't want to stamp the inside concrete. If it's stamped sand, dirt, etc. will get into the stamped part and you won't be able to sweep it up. Just go with one of the epoxy like systems that are used in garages.
Be warned, you can't touch up those epoxy finish - it's the major reason why I don't like them. My employer put down an epoxy floor in the new facility that cost six figures, that wound up getting gouged in at least 2 spots before we even finished moving into the building. The CEO was not happy when he found out.
Mike, quite worrying about when it will be done, just do the job, and you are really doing a great job, oh and yeah I retired two years ago I sleep a bunch more these days lol, like you for 40 years I was up every morning and going, it changed when I retired.
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Good Morning, Morgans! Mike, as far as the foam panels goes, we just did what you did, then used sand to adjust the last 1/4 inch. It works fine. And there's nothing wrong with attention to detail. You've worked hard to pay for this building. You should want to do it the right way! God Bless!
I’ll never forget the first morning I set foot on my radiant heat floor. Can’t beat it.
I did radiant floor heat 25 years ago, didn't have all the different products and knowledge we have now and it's still been great. Yer gonna love it.
Used the same system when I did my garage last year. Worked great. Saxonburg area so similar conditions. Connected to a mohoning outdoor boiler. Super nice this winter. Best advice I got from a pro was keep your pex 2-3 ft from exterior walls as that is where you may need to drill in to the concrete to mount things like air compressor, shelves, etc. He was right.
Jonathan ... last place we did this we left a "map" of all stuff buried in the concrete (pipes, conduit, etc) showing where the gaps were. The owner had plans for a vehicle lift, air compressor, etc and wanted to drill into the floor in the future. BTW, a lift usually needs more than 4" of concrete and usually more rebar for a certain distance in several directions.
Hey Mike, great way to heat a building. I'm in north-central Ohio, installed radiant floor heat in my 40x60 garage, used pea gravel base, 4'x8' x 2" thick blue insulation panels, taped the seams with 2" wide tape, stapled down tubing, heat with a Navien LP wall hug hot water heater. System is 9 years old, very dependable, economical. Blg is on a full foundation, 2"x6" walls. I spent a little more on the walls & insulation. Insulation is the key IMHO. Thanks to you guys for the great videos.
All-nighters! A common practice for high achievers. I’ve pulled my fair share over the years, always with purpose and drive. As I look back over my decades of life, I realize that there are significant trade-offs. When it saps ones strength, takes time away from family, or sends the wrong signal to others on the team, it’s unbalanced behavior. How well I recall the day after an all-nighter before Thanksgiving in the late ‘80s when upon my return home in the morning, I found my Bible opened to Psalm 127. A timely, and life-long message gently shared to me by my wife. It’s worth a read!
hi guys jimmy from Tn. I haven't done a heat floor but the best trick I have seen is to pressurize with air before pouring concrete. If the concrete guys punch a hole in the tubing it will make air bubbles in the concrete that you can see and you can fix it before the concrete sets. Enjoy the videos
Dang it wish I had thought of that ! Lol not because I have a heated shop but because I Will someday and So Far you win for best suggestion yet !
@@mikesr3407 ... if you higher a contractor to lay the pipe they will absolutely pressurize the pipe before the pour. In most cases it's required to pass a building inspection.
@@rupe53 that is COOL ! Makes perfect sense to me ! Thanks
Good point! And take some detailed pictures prior to pouring in case you ever decide you need anchors in the floor for something. Pretty easy to lay out a tape each way so you can know where things are. If your spacing is consistent with your grid, it should be simple.
Also when you pressure it will not collapse
Hey Mike, I have been in the heating and a/c business my whole life and have installed hundreds of radiant heat systems. It is definitely worth the added cost and you will love the level of comfort and energy savings you will achieve with the system.
Hi Mike, never commented before. We built our house in Maine last year using radiant and those panels. Up here we use a layer of sand to level up under the concrete. When you lay the tubing in, the posts do a good job in the straights, but we found using a foam stapler really helped keep the tubing down around the turns, otherwise when the concrete guys walk on it the tubing can pop up. Best of luck to you guys, love watching your channel.
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I do residential radiant heat and I also recommend using staples on the turns. www.viega.us/en/products/Tools/Accessories/Staple-2890-0US.html
Slow & steady...perfection!!
My ? Is...How and the heck do you find time to make these videos with everything going on. Not long now before daughter Hannah’s HUGE wedding. GOD Bless y’all... Thank you for keeping all your fans entertained.
Easy to recognize that awesome tat fur Sure ! Carry On ! 👍
We use sand to level and we use plastic staples into flat foam boards quick and much less costly!
You are going to love radiant floor heat in the winter!!! I have 1200 sq ft building in central Mn with radiant and it works great!
What a great treat for my Wednesday! Starting work later today, and had a chance to sit out on the patio with a big cup of coffee and watch you guys work! Have a beautiful day! 👍🙏
Mike everything new is a learning experience, which is good. You figure something out and then it's easier for the next person, watching you do it for the first time.
It is the most amazing way to heat your home. My first experience of this was in Ketchum, ID many years ago which is at the foot of Bald Mt in Sun Valley, ID. My babysitter for my kids lived in a small home her father had built back in the 1950’s. He left his will that for so many generations forward they were forbidden to sell the property but use it as he had built it. He built this mostly concrete structure that had a sunken tub -a large one- that many could use together. The aroma of sulphur filled the air but was piping hot! He was brilliant in deciding to run pipes all through the floor of the house (think Fred and Wilma’s house) and was able to tap in to the natural hot springs out there on Warm Springs Road. The most heavenly feeling to be in that house and walk on the floors. I’ve never forgotten it and hoped to build my own version of that. Think of every object in the room absorbing the heat including ourselves. Therefore the most heat absorbing materials you use in the whole structure will be affected. I hope yours turned out good and you love it!
Mike, yes you are being too particular, but it’s your own building. You will have piece of mind and no problems because of your attention to detail. I was crazy fussy and particular when I built our home some 35 years ago, and that has paid off in a structure that has stood the test of time! Keep up the good work.
Every bit of detail you iron out now to be perfect that multiplies over time. Sure, you are spending more time but it will pay off with no creeeeeks or dips, over time. Everything shifts ground over time. Water table, humidity, snow outside and such. Mother earth always wins, but you are doing it right. Plus, Mrs. Morgan looks like an amazing partner to work with.
@RAH Capital Read his comment again. He didn't say the structure lasted. He said it stood the test of time, and in the context of this video, he means he had no issues with the structure. The structure of a home can have issues resulting in cracks, etc., without completely failing. It's not all or nothing.
@@michaelbarrister429 That’s exactly what I meant, Michael. Thank you for your kindness!
Every week you get more real. I feel like I’m listening to my next door neighbor. The getting real is getting to know you and the family. The better I know you n the family the more I understand the things you do n why! This all good by the way👍
Black sand for the final 2". Makes life so easy when putting in the final grade. Looks great. Be safe and see ya on the next one
Good morning everyone. 73º in Kansas City. Mowing the lawn this morning in an attempt to beat the heat, 94º for the high today. Stay safe, be humble & kind and have a day.
Hi Phil!
Howdy guys!
Good morning Phil!
Good morning Phil.Have great week.
@@DragonflyAcres2022 Thank you
Mike and Melissa, it makes my heart smile when I see and hear you start talking about your grandson. You both get smiles ear to ear while talking about him. Also, Mike, you are doing a great job doing the preparation for your in-floor heating system. The only issue I have with the in-floor heating system that I have is that it is very expensive to operate so I only use it for a backup heating system. I have it in all of my house including the garage so when in use it is heating close to 3,600 square feet of the house and garage. I also installed a geothermal system with air ducts that I actually heat and cool my house most of the time instead of using the in-floor system. I really like the in-floor system because you are comfortable all the time during the winter while running it, but it is really expensive to operate. My system has a small electric heating element, not exactly a boiler but an electric heating unit that heats all the water quickly and I have four zones to heat. Not sure what you are going to use to heat your water, but electricity I would imagine will be the most expensive. I really enjoy your videos and watching what you do and watching your family grow! (Tell Hunter hi from Iowa) Thanks, J.R.
I wish I could help, but you are the one giving me 'how to'. You struck me the very first video as a man that instinctively uses common sense when experience is lacking to finish as a professional. So many others just blunder through a project making tons of mistakes, never getting it right and leaving it that way. Not you. Hey I did like that helpful comment to use sand to level. Might be quicker? IDK, but I do know you will have it right when finished. Manoman, the insulation looks way better than I imagined, I am really enjoying this Mike. I do wish you had a couple guys helping you though, that is a huge area to do by yourself. I know Melissa was there, but her plate is already full, she can't stay. Again, as always this video was terrific, about 20 minutes of sweet! Thanks for sharing this awesome project, I literally can't wait till tomorrow. Oh, you really melted my heart telling us about Ty! Heck yeah he's an outdoor lover! He will ALWAYS love going over to your house and being w you, I'm sure of it! Mike Morgan is a real go-getter, tough as nails guy, but that little feller is going to be bringing out the big hearted softy in you more than you are expecting. That too I am anxiously waiting to see! See ya tomorrow! 👍🚜❤
Always the best building starts with a good foundation. You are doing a great job. Thanks for the videos.
We use sand under our concrete here whenever we pour on grade…might be easier to level. We screte off the sand like wet concrete…works great
you will not be disappointed. my garage is in ohio 40x60 I will never build anything without floor heat its evenly heated and no drafts or cold spots. love it!
We did it in our house and Garage! Only way to go guys! Unreal the way it heats and feels on the body!!! My neighbors told me I was crazy, but all you have to do, is ignore them 😂🤣😂😂😂🤣
Mike, there is nothing wrong with being particular about your project. I tried to pull an all-nighter (I'm 57) yeah, it doesn't work like it used too
Since you are working for yourself and not charging a customer by the hour, you cannot be too particular. Five years from now you will never say, "I wish I would have just slapped it together."
You are doing a great job Mike and Melissa. You are enjoying having the time to do it exactly the way you want to. Looks great!!.
I always figured it’s best to do it right. It’s looking good. You’ll be happy when it’s done. 👍👍👍❤️
Good job Melissa you got Mike to laugh and smile all in one video
The rewards will be well worth it. Best thing I ever did both garages and my house has floor heat y’all will love it
Looks good. We contracted the only floor heat system we have ever had on a job 2 years ago. They showed up with a crew of 15 people and were.done i1 1/2.days on 3700 square feet. I was completely lost on have they were doing it because they were moving so fast. 4 guys were maintaining level surface and rest were laying panels and pex. They worked 18 hours first day and worked 10 hrs second day and were done by noon. Home owner paid them on separate contract to have it done. Building was.for equipment storage.and some very nice antique cars along.with a nice 1000 square ft entertainment room over looking the Inter Coastal Waterway. Happy Bithday to Kate and Bi Hello to rest of family. See y'all on the next video.
Sleep. Think I've heard of It once. Didn't get to watch yesterday so spending my lunch break watching. Mike get the floor close and you'll be good to go. Hope all are well and we'll see you down the road.....
We have that in our house and ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!!! You won’t regret it
I never used that stuff before but I used foamalar 4x8 2in worked great YOU WILL LOVE LOVE heated concrete it’s the best I think you want some heat lost So it won’t freeze and heave In the winter the floor should never crack it worked awesome for me
Greetings M & M from S. E. Ohio.ove only been watching your channel for round 6-7 months and one thing that I noticed is when you,Mike do something you give it 100 percent. Love your channel have a wonderful rest of the day. Hello Hunter. And Happy Birthday Kate
Work ethic is born within all of us. Parent / Parents instill and develop it. So many families have parents with no ethic training. Major issue with our society today. Just thinking….
Gotta say love your show and to see a couple like you and your wife it’s so awesome keep that love going you too
March on. Thanks for sharing. 🇺🇸
Mike , you are spot on with that foundation. When I had my building built . The contractor would spread material , compact it and then shoot it with the laser , he done this for a few days . My building is only 30x30 but the foundation is awesome and my concrete is spot on.
Sand to top dress. Drive 6” rebar pins every 10’ to set grade. Then just a little sprinkle and screed it. Perfect flat, very fast.
That's the way I've seen it done in all the "pro" videos on TH-cam.👍
I used 2A to grade for my pole building before I put my insulation down for my radiant floor heat it really makes it go easy, I used a plate compactor it packs nicely and you are not kicking stones when you walk on it
Radiant floor is definitely the way to go the heat is so nice and there is no cold spots in the building
After you lay down the tubing make sure you locate where the interior walls will go. Anchoring those walls with anchors, you may hit a tubing run. Good luck fixing that. That tubing becomes a hidden factor for future wall locations. It may take some time but I would make a drawing with dims. to show the location of the tubing before the concrete is poured. Good luck Mike!
Man that sounds like a great idea.
If in doubt use a thermal imaging camera to find the tubes under the floor .
Put that system in my house in southeast Texas. Using my floorplans I routed the tubes away from all walls and used doorways to go from room to room. Is not feasible down here where our cold snaps are just a few days long. It takes days to get the slab heated then your running the AC to keep the house cool, lol. Curious to see the boiler to heat the water.
@@lhr1701 no doubt great idea , Mike needs an excuse to get one anyway , great tool to spot deer or injured deer after dark ! So a guy can get his harvest before the coyote do !
We have that in our mud room and is just the best. Warm shoes in the cold winter to a nice warm floor.
I have 4500 sqft radiant floor in my building. You will love it. I have a Garn boiler that burns wood. I make 1 fire a day in the winter, 2000 gallon heat storage is great. Make shure you do a heat loss calculation and determine proper water temperature and tube spacing. It is important! Also have the tubing layout computer designed. You won't be sorry. Most suppliers will do the design and calculations for free if you buy the tubing from them. Use oxygen barrier pex! If you want to hear about my lessons let me know.
I just Melissa's workout video. Seeing her workout on a warm floor this winter will make the work worthwhile. especially a floor she helped create. You are working to Morgan quality standards, better than Governement, better than NASA. (You did not see two Morgan shuttles crash did you? ) One of the reasons Mike stopped his old job was to have time to do things like this Morgan Right. I have lived with hacked jobs and incomplete projects. There is a vast difference between that and the Morgan Way. God bless, protect, and comfort you all.
Happy Birthday Kate! God Bless the Morgans! It’s ok Mike to be particular! When I build something I like it to be right! Have a day Morgans!👍🙏❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
My son-in-law installed this in his garage and loves it. He has a exterior stove piped to the house and garage.
Mike, ive never used that system, but i do know a couple of guys on the outdoor wood boiler who has used it. They used sand to level it out. They said sand will help with heat loss too. Love how your building is coming together. I recently pulled an all nighter and worked the next day outside. Needless to say that i am not as young as i once was. But i did make it!
I have radiant in my 30x36 garage. I love it
Mike you are looking more and more relaxed as the weeks go by - love it.
You and Melissa will have that knocked out in no time.
Nothing wrong with attention to detail Mike.. Your building, your way..It will definitely be worth it and your attention to detail in all you guys do will prove out over the many years of enjoyment you will have with all the Morgan Family...Props to you both...Be safe and God Bless
Mike, you do projects like I do. I'm particular about what I do also. When my son and I put a new roof on my house, it took us forever because we were so picky. But the extra effort is worth it. Even with your panels buried beneath the concrete, you would be tormented forever if you knew that you had done the job less than perfect! I tell everyone that "perfect is good enough." I guess that's why I enjoy your videos so much. Keep up the good work!
We used 2” X 4x8 foam boards then sheet reinforcing wire then tied wirsbo pex to wire with rebar ties
Concrete workers pulled wire and tubing up into concrete, my wife and I put tubing in basement and garage floor in one weekend and it was 100’ out and hotter in basement works great, went to 4 day school at wirsbo to learn how to size and install, working in HVAC FIELD
I have a cousin who has a building about the same size that they use as a machinery repair shop on their farm that is heated by radiant floor heat that is powered by an outdoor boiler. The day I was there it was about 20 below zero outside and about 75 inside. If I ever had to heat a building like that I’d definitely use an in-floor heating system. He also heats two houses with systems run by the outdoor boiler using wood he cuts from fence lines and downed trees from the woods on the property.
Good morning Mike and Melissa, looks good, thanks for sharing with us. Happy Birthday Kate,you all have fun at the zoo. Thanks for explaining about the two sizes of stone and their compaction, got to have some driveway work done, got to hire it done. You all stay safe, Hello to Hunter and the rest of the crew. Fred.🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋
Being from Texas I've never had or installed a floor heat system but your installation is looking great Mike. Your tolerances might be a little tight in my opinion but if you have the time, material, and tools to do it, why not.
Hi Mike, when we built my garage 19 years ago we used pea gravel for the top layer, then 1" pink foam board with wire on top, the heat pipe was wired to the wire. pretty easy, but your is your building and there is nothing wrong with being particular about it.
We do concrete and when we do in floor heat we use chips or sand for final grade. Gotta get it flat so the foam sits right. The weight of the concrete will settle it down but everything goes better if the base is flat. Do it right the first time! Keep being picky.
Rex here, love Melissa’s reflection in the finish of the tractor, nice photographic touch! I have completed many projects without the “proper know how and I applaud this protect, you guys! Love it!
Good morning Hunter :-) and family and friends :-) Happy Birthday Kate ! :-)
Good morning BadCat - ditto on your remarks!
@@marcuswhite3628 / Good morning Marcus :-)
58 years young still pulling all nighters. Shift work manufacturing always fun. Love your videos Mike.
When the Winter cold sets in and you have those heated concrete floors, You will realise how worth it all the work was.
Beer nuts are about $1.50, deer nuts are just under a buck.
Bwahahaha
Working mid-nights for 14 years and raising a family, I would do all nighters all the time. I was in my 30’s at that time and it wasn’t easy but sometimes had to be done, I thought! LOL! Now at 67, I look back at those days and realize how insane it was! LOL! Mike I can relate to you on so many levels! Love from Northwest Indiana! 🙏🏻💗👏👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I really enjoy the channel folks. Keeps me smiling and gives me lots of great ideas for my own projects. Thank you and keep up the great work.
Mike doing same thing except with 2" ridged foam is a pain to level perfectly, also going to add a heat exchange unit in corner for faster temperature recovery when doors are opened they have a unit with a blower behind it Great job isn't retirement great ! Also when studding walls measure posts mine are 5 1/4 ×41/4 had to rip down all studs. and check corner orientation if installing purlins inside to nail finish boards to
I 100% Guarantee you Mike Morgan...this winter you will be Very happy with in-floor radiant heat.
I helped my son use these panels in his basement. It is time consuming. There is no real shortcuts. We used limestone screenings but it still takes time and patience to get them right. If they are rocking by the time you get the pex run and the concrete down you will have problems if they are not laying flat. The system works great once it’s done. A very good system. There is nothing like floor heat. It’s the best, Good luck man…..
Mike an all-nighter at our age is going all night not getting up to go to the restroom
AMEN !!!!
Had one of those last night! No wonder I got up at 515 this morning!
AMen and Amen!
@@stanfromalabama443 ... my bladder is my alarm clock. I use it twice a night!
Oh so true lol
Good people take care of good people with shared wisdom
Hi guys...I live up in Greenville. Just did my garage with same board. Just remember that the pucks all have to line up so everything is on 3" centers. All of the grid lines should line up or putting the tubing in is a PITA. I used a TAKAGI point of use water heater and it works wonderful! If you have any questions just I gimme a jingle!
Just a little Math for the folks that seem
To think the wet concrete will weigh down the foam if it’s not perfectly level. One yard of wet
Concrete weighs 4050 lbs. one yard of concrete covers 81 sq ft 4” thick. That comes to 50 lbs per Sq foot. Or .3472 lbs per sq inch. So that isn’t going to move that rigid foam much at all if Any.
So I am glad you took the time to do this right. I am doing my heated floor and am using 4” foam under
My slab and sand is my final grade substrate with a 6ml vapor barrier under The foam on top of the sand. No movement walking across the foam for
Me. Just a nice compact road base with sand topping grade.
I have never seen that style of floor panel before, that's cool.
I used a 3/4 minus stone and compacted it. It wasn't perfect and we were using 4x8 sheets of 2" foam. We stapled the PEX to the foam and laid a grid of #4 rebar over it. if there were voids under the foam, the weight of the concrete settled it to fill the void. We laid all the foam and pex in my 1000 SF garage in a couple of hours
Mike you are doing great on the floor, a buddy of mine built an auction house with radiant floor heat and never once ever had to run his ceiling heaters!. And your feet felt good on warm concrete!. used to get up at 3:30 am for work and now I'll sleep in to 5 or 6 am and I feel a lot better!. Morgans have a day!.
I installed a hard wood floor two days before Christmas one year and worked 18 hours straight on it.... that was 20 years ago. No more all-nighters here either!
It will be worth it this winter when it is below zero and you can work comfortably in the shop.
Good Evening Mike and Melissa... Flooring going to be great with that radiant heat. Mike puling all-nighters reminds me of something told to me long ago. What I used to do all night now takes me all night to do. Age is not selective, it gets all of us. Going on 74 laps round Sol the 27th this month. Been there ~ done it too, Have a good day and better evening to you and Melissa.
Yay, a Melissa joke in the video! Haven't heard one of those in a while. Happy Birthday Kate!
I worked in several shops with floor heating and it was so comfy in the winter to have warm feet while the room was only 62 degrees. They also had wall mounted radiators to do "catch up" when the doors had to be opened. BTW, warm floors are also quick to dry if you track in snow or rain.
Radiant heat is hard to beat. It is the same type of heat that burning firewood gives. Same with the sun. When the concrete floor gets poured, Mike can fly the drone inside the building for great overhead shots.
Having helped lay a few radiant floor heating system in different states I have seen them laid different ways, Some use just dirt, some pea gravel, some sand, and a bunch a mixture. It all depends on your Codes and what you have to work with. That 2A stone looks like it has some dirt in it, bring in a load of sand to top that 2B stone off. First time is always a real learning curve and each time you either relearn or lean something new. After you lay your foam board take a chalk line and mark where your walls are going, that way you will not lay your pipe under your walls(learned that one hard)
The shop is looking good. Thank you
The radiant heat is great I have a friend that put that in their new home here in Minnesota and with the way winters are here it keeps their house at 70 degrees
Mike, thank again. I’m loving this installation but we are all missing the “Hunt Man!” 👏🤩👍
I had no eyedeer that foam board installation would be so labor intensive. Nice job.
👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🙏🏻 Enjoyed! Glad to see you understand taking it a little easier! And "TIME" flies as you get older, especially if you stay busy without doors stuff and everyday maintenance around the home place. Glad I live in Texas, but on another subject I would never have pipes in a concrete slab and that's the way they used to do it in Texas.....fixing a leak is a bear as well as finding it. Used to live in Iowa...great having a basement with no pipes in the floor. In Texas they now use pex in the walls and ceilings with no problems with freezing. The pex will expand enough to tolerate freezing or you just let a faucet drip. They use a manifold with no water connections in the walls or ceiling to leak. Make sure you have NO pex connectors in the slab and you should be OK.
normally i try to get the board bonding as close to centres like laying bricks. it helps to keep the product straight. you will be seeing them boards in your sleep tonight..Great show guys.
Can only sleep for 6 hours and always have and a knight owl. Worked for 43 years, 11 to 7 AM loved it, went to training for maintenance shift 7 to 7PM.Getting up at 5:30 AM for 36 years. But still sleep 6 hours or less. Retires and still sleep 6 hours or less. Life is sweet!
I’m getting ready to build a 1,200 sq ft detached garage with radiant floor heat and the plan is to put the foam on sand. I’m no expert, but the concrete will take care of any irregularities in the levelness of the stone. I have floor heat in my basement and garage and it’s awesome. I also have a geothermal system and it heated the house very well this past winter. Looking forward to seeing the completion of the floor
Advise for anyone doing this after watching video.. Hire someone to do closed cell spray foam on the ground. Gives a monolithic insulation and you can staple your tubing right to it. Worked great on my building. Super fast.. !!!
I found it when you underlay your concrete pours with foam it’s incredibly forgiving of the ground it will sort of mold and it will let the high points kind of push through the foam a little bit and adapt. Even years later when you pull the concrete out the foam is usually pretty well intact. It does a very good job of sort of spraying the weight out. It’s important always to ensure your foundation is solid but I’m pretty sure if you had just thrown all of that down it would’ve been absolutely fine. On the way to the concrete goes on it it’s sort of pushes everything down and the foam can bend and give a little here and there where it needs to and if you have a sharp or High Point on a rock it will just push into the phone and the phone will still form a solid base and not high center on those little bumps. It’s all very very forgiving. Even cutting the edges. I tend to be a perfectionist and try to do everything which is why everything takes me so long but concrete always going to drip down the side a little and as long as you’re getting a thick enough pad on top it will fill those gaps. I’ve even seen when they didn’t have enough foam and left a few inches between sheets of foam end it still supports everything, the concrete feels those gaps well anyway and once it cures it all becomes part of the structure. Leaving those big gaps with some thing I thought would be a point of failure but it’s kind of like suspending a shed or anything else you don’t have to have every bit of the flooring be a footing as long as it suspended evenly and not going to be moving much. Yours looks great and will be more than fine. To speed it up you could just be less particular but I know you’re not gonna do that, I probably wouldn’t either but in reality it probably wouldn’t make enough of a difference to ever notice.
Looks like things are coming along very well. I think all of you are really going to enjoy it. I vote for the wood look concrete inside and out. I’ve seen it and it is beautiful! But it’s Your choice and I’m sure it will be beautiful whatever you choose to do. #HaveADay #OWTM #Outdoorgans
Good day everyone. It has been hot here in Missouri. Right now, it is 92. We needed the break from the rain, so the farmers can get their crops in. It’s really interesting the radiant floor heat. I have been planning on building a house on my farm and looking at different options. I am looking into heat pumps, furnace, radiant floor heat and geothermal heating and cooling. With the price of lumber, I have had to put a pin in it.
Mike, I gotta hand it to you, you have an amazing work ethic! That is slow tedious work!
We use that radiant floor system we used stone dust mixed in with The Rock it helped out a lot with the little low you know Valley's in there and when you're putting the pecs down they had Staples they suggested for us to use and you can get this long pole and it's like a staple thing and you just won't be you don't have to bend down but everything else you're doing it right looks great keep up the good work
Mike it is hard to imagine it, but this style of heating is pretty amazing, compared to the conventional heating methods (electric ceiling, electric baseboard, electric space heater(s), electric or gas forced air ducted), but it is a pretty awesome system.
If you were being sold on it by a contractor type, you would probably be focused on the cost, and yes it is not the cheapest.
I would say a person would need to tour a location that had a system in place and operating during the cold part of your year.
If there wasn’t an opportunity to do this, there is a “leap of faith” that would be taken by a person to go with this system.
I have this very system in a 2500 sq ft single level house, in NW Montana.
Gas fired boiler, a with a domestic water maker, 6-zones, including my 2.5 car garage.
I/we love it...!
I would have configured my zones a little differently, now that we have been in the house for all four seasons, but no regrets.
Great video,
Thank you sir
Floor is going to be fantastic ! Mike I've only done it a couple of times but during the rut I sat dark to dark ! Once with a tiny stand 7 yrs ago and last 2 seasons in my millennium Monster stand ! Hardest part is staying awake ! Bowhunt or Die ! Have a Day ! 👍👍👍
Did an NHL hockey rink. We used screeds and sand with 2 layers of polystyrene, so very similar. Wooden skewers at 45 deg angle to hold the 2 layers of poly together.
I love my radiant heat
You don't want to stamp the inside concrete. If it's stamped sand, dirt, etc. will get into the stamped part and you won't be able to sweep it up. Just go with one of the epoxy like systems that are used in garages.
Be warned, you can't touch up those epoxy finish - it's the major reason why I don't like them. My employer put down an epoxy floor in the new facility that cost six figures, that wound up getting gouged in at least 2 spots before we even finished moving into the building. The CEO was not happy when he found out.
Mike, quite worrying about when it will be done, just do the job, and you are really doing a great job, oh and yeah I retired two years ago I sleep a bunch more these days lol, like you for 40 years I was up every morning and going, it changed when I retired.