put down 3600 feet of pex tubing

[mlinnane]

I know I need to post some pictures of this but we finally have all the pex tubing in the barn(kennel) for 3720 sq feet we laid 3600 feet of 1/2 pex pipe.
And do the back of my legs hurt from all the tieing down. If I never see another zip tie again it will be too soon. It is all under pressure we have about 28 lbs in the tubing. For the floor we used about 5 to 8 inches of crusher run. Then the radiant barrier with the bubbles. Next we placed down 1 inch foam board. We also taked the radiant barrier to the bottom of treated boards. I stuff fiber glass anyplace around the bottom the door sills I could get it. We laid down mess on top of the foam, and tied tubing to that. Also all concrete has got the fibrerglass in it. Two weeks ago the concrete guy poured about 1200 sq and we still 2520 to do yet. But it will have to be done in different pours, due to pitches for the floor for my kennel.
I have had at least 16 loads of shale trucked in with a tri-axle hold about 16 to 18 ton, this is for the parking area. I had the dozer guy take out a few hedges rows for fill for my parking area, (it did not have to pushed far) and what a great place for all the rocks. We got the bank out of the barn some of that I dug with my excavator and then dozer guy pushed everything I had out to the front for my parking lot. We have filled in an area of about 100 feet by 150 with 7 feet of fill most of it from the back of the barn. I am so sick of being in mud all the time I could scream. I finally got the trench closed for water and electric and we have lights and water in the barn.
Once the floor is poured we will start to build the kennels and insulate the walls and ceiling.

 

[scott_vt]

Mornin Michelle,
Very interesting post ! Wow, that sounds like a huge project. Just the amount of material that you had to have trucked in is massive.

I will be very interested to see how you like your new system once the cold weather comes. I will keep an eye on this thread as the temps start to drop

 

[dtd24]

Nice project! If you are looking for a better quote on that boiler, call appolo heating 355-0433, speak w/ JT.

Come on sick of mud? I like to call it Mariville Mud. Doesn't seem to come off of anything!

 

[SPIKER]

I'm waiting for the photos

Markm

 

[mlinnane]

I know I have promised pictures this is not complete but it will give you layout of land. I will also post pictures of before we started and then after pictures.Here are some aerials of the place. I have more pictures and I was going to post from home last night but response time so bad I did not take the time.

 

[mlinnane]

ok here are some pictures. Here is the trench I dug from my house to the barn as you can see it is full of water. That is what holes do here they fill with water, which means a trip to tractor supply for a trash pump to get water out of ditches. I also used sand to back fill ditchs even though everything was in pipe. Due to wet ness the sand in the ditch turned to quick sand so I placed long blanks on top of sand to keep the rocks that had to go back in the ditch from hurting anything. The really big rocks we pushed in the area we filled in to make a parking lot. There was so any rocks it was impossible not to place some them back in. But here are some pictures of the ditch open and then the water pipe is what is floating in the water.

picture aug0601 is water in ditch with pipe floating
picture aug 0604 is ditch and some of the rocks we dug out electric along side ditch put not in pipe yet the dozer in the picture is a 1450 case with a 12 foot blade to give you and idea of rock size

picture aug0605 dozer next to rocks

pictures aug0606 water is almost to the top of the ditch and dozer guy is pushing stuff from bank

picture sep0604 is ditch closed and shale down from same angle

 

[mlinnane]

ok here are some pic of the tubing we laid in the barn this is 2400 feet of tubing and it also shows the 30 X 40 we already poured

pic sep0605 is where tubing is all connected togther and under pressure
pic sep0607 this is one side of barn there is 1200 feet of tubing here
pic sep0608 this is the other side of barn again 1200 feet of tubing
pic sep0609 this is the 30 X 40 we poured the other weekend

 

[mlinnane]

ok here are the pictures for the hedgerow I had taken out.
The first two pictures show the hedgerow the third one it is gone.

 

[mlinnane]

OOPS I messed up and loaded the same pictures twice. The response time was so slow last night. I must of fallen asleep between uploads.

 

[SPIKER]

Photos looked good; thanks for reminding me to come look

I got my tractor back together after breaking it in 4 wheel drive, but found a cracked fuel line after getting it backtogether & running for an hr or so it started leaking bad enough to cause a miss so Ihad to shut it down. now waiting for parts again.


OPPS: forgot to ask are those SWEEPS for electrical conduit to protect the PEX exiting of the concrete? or???

Mark M AKA SPIKER