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Radiant floor heating

From 1986 Ford Bronco “Eddie Bauer” — documented by Sixlitre.

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1986 Ford Bronco - Payin' these guys $400.00 to slice up the floor made the rest of the job REAL easy after that. 1986 Ford Bronco - Sliced up and ready to pop out 1986 Ford Bronco - Over and above the radiant floor heating, the salt damage was another compelling reason for replacing the floor 1986 Ford Bronco - Some of these holes were big enough I'd turned my ankle a couple of times and they throw off safety stand placement too (and hold water as… 1986 Ford Bronco - Borrowed Super-neighbour's trailer and used the two wheel dolly to schlep the squares over to a buddy's property. By using my concrete he s… 1986 Ford Bronco - Just like removing date squares from the baking pan, except they're a darn sight heavier ! 1986 Ford Bronco - Day two has most of the concrete gone. One load, maybe, left. 1986 Ford Bronco - 1 1/2" conduit pipe through the wall into the basement for plenty more power to the other side of the garage. 1986 Ford Bronco - Little backfilling and we're good to go 1986 Ford Bronco - There ! buried and ready for styrofoam. 1986 Ford Bronco - This is the green, not white, 2" high density styrofoam. It's half the price of pink or blue SM. With an R value of 8 instead of 9 or 10, w… 1986 Ford Bronco - As long as the gravel is flat, it takes no time to lay the styrofoam at all ! 1986 Ford Bronco - Being "Mr. Point load" every available scrap of wood goes down to spread the load and not bust the styrofoam. 1986 Ford Bronco - Here's the 300 foot coil of PEX tubing. Kept it warm in the house and warmed up the garage with the heater so it would un-coil more easily. 1986 Ford Bronco - Two 3/4" holes drilled into the 10" poured basement wall nearly wasted the old hammer drill, but they're necessary to pass the PEX in and o… 1986 Ford Bronco - The staples just push into the styrofoam, quite easily with thumb pressure and seem to keep the hose in place firmly, with no kinks and nic… 1986 Ford Bronco - There's my buddy SuperDave's feet . You can see the space between the styrofoam and the pavement. That's the mantle and it needs re-bar to… 1986 Ford Bronco - Drill into the existing footing and install 90 degree bent re-bar and you're good to go. 1986 Ford Bronco - We had to heat the place for a couple of nights to keep the temps just above freezing for a good set up of the concrete. 1986 Ford Bronco - There's SuperDave hand trowelling the mantel area, which we sloped down to meet the pavement. We had to wait 3 hours, after the pour, until… 1986 Ford Bronco - This is how the fiber-mesh concrete looked after hand floating and how it almost looked permanently as it took 45 minutes to start the "Hon… 1986 Ford Bronco - Separate oil water heater filled with glycol. Small cushion tank, very small 3 speed pump (less than 1 amp). Auto pressure release valve at…