wildmanbaker wrote:
Now your making progress! Nothing a nice secure, flat surface to stumble and fall on. LOL The in floor heating systems usually have an aluminum that plate that screws to the bottom of the subfloor, that the PEX snaps into. Then, an insulation blanket, similar too the Mylar bubble wrap insulation, but much heaver foil, is installed under the PEX system. These systems are usually fed by a Condensing Boiler, the also feeds the H&V system, (they admit that the radiant floor heating system will not heat the whole room evenly) the domestic hot water tank. These systems are usually installed in high end houses, and I imagine the system is cheaper to operate than a traditional system. Their are also system losses that would eat a small system up in short order.
Your on the way now, "Onward Through the Fogg".
Here is one guy's solution to putting pex in the floor. He put 2 x 3"s down on 16" centers, laid foil faced insulation in between them. Then he routed out space for the tubing, and as you can see here, and put some aluminum down that the pex laid into.
All of the pex was not laid into aluminum, but a bunch of it was. Then, he screwed plywood down on top of this. Carefully, of course!
Granted, more aluminum = more heat transfer. This procedure would probably not pass the standards set by whatever organization that sets them, but it apparently works, according to him.
So, this is what things look like now. We have 3 pieces of plywood left to pull up, glue up, and then screw them down.
The first one has a pair of red rectangles on them. Those are where the rear wheels are, and I need to cut those areas out. I would love to leave them flat, but that probably would not work well when hitting bumps out on the road.
That would be great, but I'll just have to work around them.
Next step is pull #1 up, then #2, then #3. I think I will do all three of them and then make the boxes for the wheel wells.
60% to go. Yay!
After gluing and screwing the plywood down, that really stiffened up the floor. That's a plus.
The first one has a pair of red rectangles on them. Those are where the rear wheels are, and I need to cut those areas out. I would love to leave them flat, but that probably would not work well when hitting bumps out on the road.
That would be great, but I'll just have to work around them.
Next step is pull #1 up, then #2, then #3. I think I will do all three of them and then make the boxes for the wheel wells.
60% to go. Yay!
After gluing and screwing the plywood down, that really stiffened up the floor. That's a plus.
Then it was time to move all the "stuff" in the rear of the motor home, to the front. Like so.... Lol.
Looks horrible, but the stuff up front was there. It actually only took about 5 minutes to move the other stuff.
Looks horrible, but the stuff up front was there. It actually only took about 5 minutes to move the other stuff.
