Lucy Ave - Nothin’ like a Holiday
25Jul07
In spite of the holiday (July 24th is Pioneer Day in Utah), we had 6 trades on site! Today we had Questar Gas, Pella Windows, Inline Plumbing, Benchmark Renovation, Timberline Doors and Michelle and I continued painting. We spent most of the day masking and priming and joined up with family later for festivities.
Questar came to run a new gas line. They tried to run the new line inside the old but with no success. They eventually just replaced the whole thing.
Pella came to replace some of the standard glass in the stairwell with tempered. It was surprising to see how simple they made it all look.
Timberline Doors delivered the rest of the doors today so we will finally get our front door installed soon. We have been nervous about rain getting in and damaging the sheetrock. It will be nice to get the house one step closer to being sealed up. Chris from Benchmark also worked on closing up a few gaps on the exterior as well. Tomorrow all that orange pex will be covered with concrete.
-Jacob
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Are you also using PEX for your water supply lines? I’ve recently begun to purchase all of the pieces I will need to convert my house from copper to pex. It’s amazing how few plumbers, especially young ones, know about pex.
Your house looks amazing and it’s not even done yet. Keep the updates coming.
-peel
Thanks peel. We are happy with the way it is all coming together as well.
Yes, Pex was used throughout the home. With the price of copper I can’t imagine it being done any other way. I have heard it has a longer lifespan than copper as well.
nice house!
can you explain the process for doing radiant heated concrete floors with pex?… i.e do they just lay that stuff on a normal subfloor, then poor some concrete over it? how thick of concrete is it, and what kind of finish.. super smooth? do you polish/stain it after? and what is behind the pex, a boiler? and how much does that cost and how does it fit into the overall heating/ac budget for the whole house? and what about heating floors in the basement?
thanks
RR: That is alot of info packed into 1 question!
Pex gets stapled down to osb subfloor and hot H2o is pumped through to heat the space. 1.5″ thick gypcrete is poured over tubing and then must be covered with a finish surface, ie. tile, carpet, wearcoat, etc. etc. Rough cost for pex, gyp and floring would be around 15$ per square foot. Pex can be poured into your basement slab as well!
Good luck,
Garth
Benchmark
Lucy Ave, GC
We designed the whole house and mechanical system around radiant heat. The home has no duct system at all and all the cooling is done with two roof mounted evaporative coolers. We are also using our “stair tower” for its chimney effect. We will have a whole house fan installed on the ceiling of the stair space which is the highest point in the home. Every space in the home connects to the stair area to allow heat to exhaust. This should keep the home cool during mild summer days and in the evening. The evaporative cooler will hopefully take care of the hot days.
We have also constructed a Japanese style ofuro from stainless steel. Your pix and information have been very helpful. What layers of materials did you use between the ofuro “lip” and your final tiles?