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  • BaronJ
    BaronJ reacted to ChazzC's post in the thread Show us your shops! with Like Like.
    In this case, it was not poured directly on the sub base (for reasons noted above, half (-ish) of the heat would flow into the ground).
  • BaronJ
    BaronJ reacted to jorogi's post in the thread Show us your shops! with Like Like.
    OK, terminology. What is a mud slab ? Just pour your foundation on the granite.
  • BaronJ
    BaronJ reacted to ChazzC's post in the thread Show us your shops! with Like Like.
    Terminology
  • BaronJ
    BaronJ reacted to phaxtris's post in the thread Show us your shops! with Like Like.
    then it is not a "mud slab"
  • BaronJ
    BaronJ reacted to Lucky7's post in the thread Show us your shops! with Like Like.
    Yup, so true. There is one advantage to -35 deg January’s, a Flir camera or the like can accurately locate heating tubes. :)
  • BaronJ
    BaronJ reacted to ChazzC's post in the thread Show us your shops! with Like Like.
    Sorry, yes the insulation is below the mud slab (even in Arizona & Minnesota). Clay always adds structural issues, either piles or in...
  • skippyelwell
    skippyelwell reacted to DaveinGuelph's post in the thread Machining a bit of funky art with Love Love.
    A couple of years ago, I'd bought a little hobby metal lathe and joined this group looking for tips. At 67, I'd never set foot in a...
  • BaronJ
    BaronJ reacted to Lucky7's post in the thread Show us your shops! with Like Like.
    Sorry for the latest topic wandering… Ryan, with your area’s wild daily temperature swings in winter, do you have to modify your slab...
  • BaronJ
    BaronJ reacted to Lucky7's post in the thread Show us your shops! with Like Like.
    Yup. Same in MB, although in Red River valley there’s also a crushable support under insulation and a pier floor system due to horrible...
  • BaronJ
    BaronJ reacted to phaxtris's post in the thread Show us your shops! with Like Like.
    Not in canada, at least not in alberta, insulation, rebar, heating pipes, or in the topping, i doubt it would even be up to the current...
  • BaronJ
    BaronJ reacted to ChazzC's post in the thread Show us your shops! with Like Like.
    We designed countless cold storage warehouses in the U.S. and the floor warming Glycol tubing was always in a mud slab, regardless of...
  • BaronJ
    BaronJ reacted to canuck750's post in the thread Show us your shops! with Like Like.
    In central Alberta I have never seen in slab heating set into a mud slab, the heating lines are always set into a reinforced structural...
  • BaronJ
    BaronJ reacted to Doggggboy's post in the thread Show us your shops! with Like Like.
    I would assume it depends a lot on the climate you live in. I live in southeast Saskatchewan and have 2 buildings with infloor heating...
  • BaronJ
    BaronJ reacted to phaxtris's post in the thread Show us your shops! with Like Like.
    ?? I have been in construction a long time and i have never seen in floor heat installed in a "mud slab", it is either in the...
  • BaronJ
    BaronJ reacted to ChazzC's post in the thread Show us your shops! with Like Like.
    Floor warming (resistance or liquid) ideally should be placed in a “mud slab,” below the structural slab: the only thing that needs to...
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