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The guy I was talking with is a GC, there's a concrete sub coming in for the pour, but the GC would be doing the site prep. I'm willing to put down the pex myself, I'm not really worried about the time, more the end result. I'm going to make them do chairs.

Hey guys, I 'm doing a 6" slab with 1/2" pex, on 2.5" of rigid foam. I was planning to staple the pex to the foam, but my contractor is giving me serious kickback and insisting that it should be tied to the wire mesh halfway up the slab. He's also telling me that they should do shallow cuts to...

I don't have much to contribute, but that snap off sticker is gold

Appreciate the feedback guys. I had actually already bought standard pex, and I don't like their manifold setup, but that's unfortunate to hear. I'll check out the oil setup, thanks! I'm not ready to pull the trigger for a bit, but I'm trying to lay out the floor, and if I need an oil tank in...

alright, I guess I'll go back to radiantec and have them spec the building for me. I had them spec the original design, but it was much larger then..

I called bendpak and had a similar experience to others here, where they didn't answer any questions. They referred me to a local installer, who pointed me to a Forward lift. I think i'm changing the design and going to a 10ft wide door and a 12ft wide door, instead of the 16ft door. I'll put...

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I split a block the other day doing that, thankfully it wasn't part of a wall yet. If you want to go that route, i'd drill alot of holes to make sure it breaks where you want.

I'm planning my slab for radiant heat, and unfortunately don't have any natural gas availability. We've just had a huge hike on electric costs in CT, so my options are propane and oil. I think i'd prefer oil, but i'm not seeing much as far as people going that direction. Has anyone on here...

No expert, but I would bump the cooling to a ton and a half for a little peace of mind, its a lot of cubic feet and the slab is a big, uninsulated thermal mass.

Man, i'm jealous

I did the permacolumns, I'd recommend them if you're going to go the pole barn route

Thats funny, same boat. I use the m18, and ended up buying a cs-490 after this last storm a few weeks ago (i wanted a little larger, but it was all that was available and I needed to get busy cutting some trees). How is the 590 working out?

Annnnnd it wouldn't let me attach pictures to the original post, so here they are.

I'm building 2 garages, one right next to my house to park in (almost completed, haven't gotten around to doing a build thread yet), and another in the back corner of my lot for a workshop. This is the latter. It's going to be a quasi pole barn, similar to the first build. It's on...

I think we're all in the same boat lol. I'm still in process, but I basically started with what I wanted, then scaled it down until I could afford to both build and heat it.

That's what I was hoping for. Still doing storm cleanup today, but I'll probably give it a good scrub next week and see what comes of it.

Poured a new slab close to a month ago, and I left it wet for about 2 weeks, then left it alone. It developed "spots" all over the place, can anyone tell me what this is, and if it can easily be removed? Can I get this off with a pressure washer or a scrub brush? Will it interfere with a...

Holy Necro Batman!

They have a configurator on the home Depot website, you can just order it there (clopay)