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What company? I'm in KC and debating buying the tool. Would maybe be nice to rent if the price point is reasonable for me.

I don't see them on supplyhouse.com, which is where I was looking at for ordering Bluefin from. Guess I should check out a local company and see what they have for pricing. Thanks!

Uh... YIKES! Thanks for the sleepless nights as I stress about yet another thing that can go wrong with this build! Hahaha

Tornadoes, yes. An engineer calculated the necessary beam for my use, and I just took it at face value as being proper. The addition will have engineered trusses for the roof plan and they'll run parallel to the beam. So my plan is to slap an engineered truss up directly next to the end of...

Yes, hot water will be in the basement. I have plans to also do some staple up for heating the master bathroom and potentially in-floor radiant for the kitchen when we remodel that next year. Locating the hot water source in the basement will definitely simplify my future plans. This garage...

Still happy with your Bluefin manifold? Sorry for resurrecting such an old thread.

Oh, and I think I wasn't clear about where I'm mounting my manifold, so figured I should clarify that. This is a picture taken in my basement of the shared foundation wall between between my basement and garage. I've drawn to scale where the slab/foam/gravel will be in the garage, just on the...

Sorry to resurrect a years-old thread, but looking to make my purchase soon and wanted to get input from some owners. Are you still happy with your Bluefin manifold?

I appreciate everyone's input. I think I've finalized my design, with a priority on straight runs and minimal bends. I also shifted my lift posts slightly and made the area without pex for the posts a bit smaller. I will be leaving a strip through the middle without pex, on the comments of...

It is great to hear that you don't notice that big of a section unheated. Really makes me feel better about not trying to squeeze pipe into all the little corners, and in fact as I'm re-designing the layout I'm completely omitting one run right through the middle of the garage for ease of layout.

Thanks! Oh man, no, but I'm really wishing I would have asked for it! I was thinking I was going to have to box it in with drywall for fire rating, but there's no living space above it so I don't actually think I have to. The beam is a W12-40, guess I need to find some load tables and see...

Hey guys, sorry to leave you hanging on what the plan is - I'm adding on to my existing attached garage! What was previously a side-entrance, 29' wide x 20' deep garage is having an additional 48' feet added on, converting it into a front-entrance 68' wide x ~28' deep garage. There will be a...

1,200 pounds of metal! Quite a beast.

This project has been dragging out for so long this summer, but finally seeing some movement in the last two weeks - foundation and beam! Just had to share some photos of the beam installed with people who will appreciate it, because wow, it really opens the space up and has me excited again...

Hey fellow Lenexan! I've been living with a 30'x20' 3-car garage the past three years, and I had room for shelves in front of my cars, but no real workspace without pulling out the cars. The extra deep two bays you're going to have will give you nice space for cabinets, workbenches, etc. But...

So do the workers walk on top of the rebar/wire mesh? I've never actually watched a slab poured, but I always assumed they stepped around the rebar. As I think about it now, I can't imagine the workers are dainty while pouring concrete, so are probably just stepping on whatever happens to be...

First of all, thank you everyone for the feedback. It is really, really helpful. Thank you, I'll change the top loop to just an "out and back" loop. I'll then also take that loop along the right edge of my image where I was going to leave a strip along the exterior wall unheated as it will be...

That seems like a great idea, but my city didn't say anything about it. Unless they just failed to see the pex marked on my foundation/slab detail.

I haven't run pex before, but is it that hard to do 90* turns? I'll be attaching mine to the top of my rebar, which is on 12" centers in a 6" slab. I considered skipping those turns you mentioned, but it would necessitate not heating a 2' strip along the door in the middle of the garage (my...

After months of my project sitting with no progress, a lot has happened in the last 2 weeks and I need to get my pex layout finalized for radiant heat. I initially had used LoopCAD to design it for me, but I really didn't like the layouts it was giving me, so I decided to design my own. My...