My Industrial Cabin Build

[dstig1]

Sorry to hear that. You might be able to unkink the PEX lines with a careful use of a heat gun. Might be worth a try since you'd have to scrap it otherwise. BTW I weighted down my foam board when I did the shop slab. I put rocks and firewood rounds all over the place to help avoid trouble. May not have helped if the wind got too strong, but might be worth considering the next go around.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wind is bad here tonight. Hope it doesnt damage it more.

 

[BigBlue1]

Having done a big PEX floor heat project recently I can appreciate just how much work you put into that. Can imagine how much it sucks to see it ripped up. Sure is crazy what wind can do to wreck things. Very sorry you're having to deal with the setbacks. Hope it can be fixed without too much headache.

Rob

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Hope you got the pex redone. Nothing like wind messing up a constructuon job.

When i was building my house, high winds blew down half of my upstairs back wall. Blew it off the house. Took a good day to redo it.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

My wife and i started in on it this morning. At first i thought i might be able to pull the wire mesh flat and only remove two small areas of pex. I wasted an hour trying. Then we started removing the pex. A couple hundred retainer rings removed and the pex laid out then rolled up. Wite removed and gravel excavated to find the level of destruction. Kitchen waste line, kitchen vent pipe. Bathroom vanity waste line. I had to make a run to town. Will start plumbing repairs in the morning. We had to remove an entire zone.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Wow, it's hard to imagine how much wind it would have taken to do that. I do hope you can re-lay it down without too many problems.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

That really sucks.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

After reading about all this wind damage, I might be tempted to add some additional metal straps to the framing while it is being built. And double check the method of attaching it to the slab.

Wind is a very powerful force.

 

[EddieWalker]

That's really disappointing. Sorry that you are having to take such a huge step backwards!!!

One thing that I'm seeing that wont be very popular, but something to consider, is that wire you are using reinforce your concrete slab. It's 100% impossible to keep it in the middle, or surrounded by concrete when pouring and spreading the concrete. Most crews will pretend to lift it as the go early in the pour, but that's just for pictures. Once they get going, they are walking all over it and pushing it to the very bottom of the concrete, where it does nothing. If it's not on chairs, or some other support, there is no way to stop it from being pushed down to the bottom.

I like wire for walkways, small pads that I don't have to walk on while pouring, and counter tops. Nothing else.

Concrete contractors like wire because it's cheap, it's super fast to install, you don't trip over it while spreading the concrete, and most of the time, the clients believe them when they lie about being able to pull it up while spreading the concrete.

There is no substitute for rebar.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

That's really disappointing. Sorry that you are having to take such a huge step backwards!!!

One thing that I'm seeing that wont be very popular, but something to consider, is that wire you are using reinforce your concrete slab. It's 100% impossible to keep it in the middle, or surrounded by concrete when pouring and spreading the concrete. Most crews will pretend to lift it as the go early in the pour, but that's just for pictures. Once they get going, they are walking all over it and pushing it to the very bottom of the concrete, where it does nothing. If it's not on chairs, or some other support, there is no way to stop it from being pushed down to the bottom.

I like wire for walkways, small pads that I don't have to walk on while pouring, and counter tops. Nothing else.

Concrete contractors like wire because it's cheap, it's super fast to install, you don't trip over it while spreading the concrete, and most of the time, the clients believe them when they lie about being able to pull it up while spreading the concrete.

There is no substitute for rebar.

Eddie... I was thinking the exact same thing. If you are redoing all of that work lift that wire while you are at it. Maybe get some fiberglass in that pad as well ???