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That's been our expression this weekend. It's been a productive weekend & we're finishing up quite a few projects that seem like milestones and are "huge" to us. The radiant floor got hooked up on Friday (and it works!), we plumbed in the drain for
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Paul and Kelly from Advance Radiant Technology were on our calendar for Monday morning and Nick took the day off of work. My cell phone rang at work this morning and they were at our house. After a bit of confusion Nick hopped on the bus and headed home
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Two long days (12hrs yesterday!) later and we made some definitive progress over the weekend. The tubing for the radiant floor is now complete - we snapped the last loops into their tracks on Saturday and hooked all 6 loops to the manifold on Sunday morning.
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If I post that we'll put the tubing in the QuikTrak tonight, then I am most likely to get everything cleaned up and ready to go. Then Nick and I can put the tubing in when he gets home from work. All I have to do is put away the miscellaneous tools, clean
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It only took a few hours on Sunday (it's "quick") and now all of the Quick Track for the radiant floor is laid on the first floor. Trissa and I are both ecstatic that we have a relatively clean and solid floor to walk on again. I bet the cats are happy
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One of the major aspects of our remodel is the radiant floor heating we're adding to our 1st and 2nd floors. On the 1st floor we're using a system called Quick Trak, and for the 2nd floor we're using Joist Trak. We installed the Joist Trak last week when
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3000 screws later (all driven overhead), my neck and arm are kinda upset with me. Here's what it the Joist Trak looks like - basically they're 4' sections of extruded aluminum that are installed end to end in each joist bay. Tomorrow we snap the tubing
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I went and picked up the 3400 screws that Nick and Phil will use to install the joist track for the radiant floor on the second floor. It took awhile finding where to get 3400 screws and I ended up at Tacoma Screw down in Georgetown. It's a great place
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Got this from my radiant floor contractor, Paul Pollets (Advanced Radiant Technology) last night: Hi Nick & Trissa: We’ll be arriving around 8:30am tomorrow (Th.) Boiler and water tank delivery is scheduled for late morning. My lead mechanic is Kelly
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Saturday Nick ran the cold water pipe to the laundry room so it is ready for the boiler installation. The soldering went pretty well- he says it's messier than he'd like, but we don't have any leaks and I think it looks great. I put the second and third
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The last couple of weeks around our jobsite, er – “house”, have been non-stop busy with projects. Our radiant heating contractor, Paul Pollets, is arriving between the 14th and 18th to install our new boiler, and there are a number of prerequisites we’ve
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It was a productive weekend. We raised the beam(Nick will post about this project soon) and the gas pipe for the boiler has been re-routed and is ready to go. Our new doors arrive tomorrow so now it's time to clean up the shop so I will have a space to
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