Barndominium/Shop or "real" House?

[ETD66SS]

Is there any sign of ridges forming were the sheet of plywood touches another sheet? I believe the gap is do minimize swelling when the plywood/osb gets wet. With a roof over your decking, and your decking remaining dry, I wonder if you need the gap.

No, I see no evidence of ridges. The OSB never got wet and was stored inside then installed after the roof was installed.

My concern is causing damage to the finish flooring if the radiant heat + humidity make the panels expand.

 

[EddieWalker]

What will the finished floor be?

 

[ETD66SS]

What will the finished floor be?

Pretty much 50% tile, 50% hardwood flooring.

 

[EddieWalker]

I would wait until it's time to install the flooring before cutting expansion joints in your sheeting. Odds are very good that you won't need to do it. Odds are also good that by the time you get to it, the sheeting will need some attention from everyone working in there anyway, and the floor installers will take care of it.

 

[civilian]

Our tile in the kitchen is laid on top of cement board over 3/4" OSB. In the laundry room the tile is laid over "Detra" plastic grid material over the OSB. The plastic grid contains the electric wire for heating the floor. Don't know if the OSB has 1/8" gaps. I know the builder used a sledge hammer to get tight fits. Jon


and I know the floor got rained on, when roof ws not on yet.

 

[ETD66SS]

I would wait until it's time to install the flooring before cutting expansion joints in your sheeting. Odds are very good that you won't need to do it. Odds are also good that by the time you get to it, the sheeting will need some attention from everyone working in there anyway, and the floor installers will take care of it.

I was wondering if I should cut the seams before laying down any crossing wall plates.

Our tile in the kitchen is laid on top of cement board over 3/4" OSB. In the laundry room the tile is laid over "Detra" plastic grid material over the OSB. The plastic grid contains the electric wire for heating the floor. Don't know if the OSB has 1/8" gaps. I know the builder used a sledge hammer to get tight fits. Jon


and I know the floor got rained on, when roof ws not on yet.

I'm pretty sure the sledge hammer is used to seat the tounge & groove on the long edge of the OSB.

In any event, the OSB the Amish guys used has big lettereing and arrows telling the installers to leave a 1/8" gap at the edges, they could not seem to follow those directions right on the playwood, sigh.

 

[ETD66SS]

Worked on some 4" conduit today to be used in the future if I ever want to change/supplement my radiant heat system with an outdoor wood boiler or geothermal.

It will come up through the floor under the staircase.

 

[Carl_NH]

Will 2 - 1" lines fit inside 4" conduit? I see you have a second stub line coming out at 45* is that for electrical or the second line?

When is electrical coming in?

 

[ETD66SS]

Will 2 - 1" lines fit inside 4" conduit? I see you have a second stub line coming out at 45* is that for electrical or the second line?

When is electrical coming in?

So the incoming electric conduit was done a few weeks ago:

The 2" on the left is for 200amp service from my meter pedestal. The conduit on the right is for cable.

The 4" conduit would be for insulated wrapped (2) 1" pex lines, similar to this stuff: Insulated pex

This 4" conduit it a "just in case" I want to ever change the heat source from a NG water boiler to an outdoor wood boiler. I may never use this conduit, but easier to put it in now than busting through a concrete floor with heat tube in it.

What I did today was run 2" conduit from the main panel to where I will have a secondary panel on the other side of the shop. So I don't have to run so much steel conduit along the ceiling to power things on that side of the building. My plan is to have a 200amp bus bar pass through from one panel to the next, so I basically have a main panel with full 200amps on either side of the shop:

Probably will not pull the electric from the meter pedestal to the main panel until the electrician comes back to do the rest of his work.

 

[Carl_NH]

Very nice work and well thought out - and you have all the tools and machines to make it look easy. Its a lot of work working alone, doing conduit and backfilling.

Like the older iron you have the Ford 1920 with plow, the older Ford with land plane? and is that a JD BH or Case?