INSTALLING THE “IN SLAB” HEAT AT WORLD WIDE AUTOMOTIVE
Installed on: April 22, 2009
EarthDay!
Dave from Simanton Mechanical designed and directed the installation
The first step in the installation in laying the insulation blanket in place
The blanket has 5 layers
Wrestling the blanket into place
Next comes the rebar “chairs” that will hold the rebar sheets above the blanket
Then the sheets of reinforcement wire (rebar) are placed on top of the chairs
The “chairs” position the rebar sheets so they end up in the middle of the
concrete slab once in is poured
Next comes the plastic piping
The pipe is fed out across the sheets of rebar in giant loops
Areas where the shop’s lifts will bolt down are marked as “no pipe” zones
To keep the pipe in place during the pouring of the concrete…
The great crew from Simanton wired the pipe to the rebar every few feet
That took a lot of wire!
The ends of the pipe had to be channeled to a central location…
..where they will meet up with the heating system in the mechanical room
Thank you Dave & crew!