FLOOR HEAT COMPONENTS ARE HERE!

It's getting closer to floor heat every day. Just took delivery of some of the critical heat components, In the picture is the stainless steel 3 loop manifold. It's a Uponor with adjustable water flow ports, (need to adjust water flow in each loop to equally adjust for heat) ball valve shutoffs, temp gauges & assorted fitting, 2 Taco pumps - one for mounting on the boiler for water delivery - the other is thermostatically controlled for water thru the manifold, Honeywell mixing valve to drop the temp of the water going into the floor. It's bad to have to hot a water into the concrete (over 125 deg is bad)the concrete will actually deteriorate much faster. This valve is adjustable so the water temp will be much lower than the delivery temp (which is 185 deg - 195 deg). I"ll start out at about 85 - 90 deg at the manifold and see how that works. there is some experimentation involved to get it working correctly, should be fun. The valve mixes the incoming hot water with the much cooler water coming out of the floor. The green box is the thermostatically controlled relay system for the pump. So these are the parts, I'll need to build a panel to mount all this stuff.

RIGGING SUPPORT IN THE TRUSSES

When I built the trusses last summer, I did not build in any triangulation. They were already very difficult to build {being 30 feet long & 18 in tall made it very difficult} I did not want it any harder. Also I could not have gotten them up into place if they were any larger. Remember, these are additional to what is already in place. I decided to get additional support for the new trusses by tying them into the existing trusses with rigging. By using 3/32 steel rope (1000 lbs break), 3/8 turnbuckles (1200 lbs break) 3/16 tubing and cable clamps. I used three sections of tubing on each support. I bent the tubing around the existing trusses near the top and under the new trusses in the middle of the truss. I threaded the steel rope thru the tubing and thru the eye bolt of the turnbuckles and clamped them. I did the same going under the truss. I did this for all ten trusses. took out all the slack in the steel rope before clamping them off. Then it's tighten the turnbuckles until there is no bounce in the truss. Worked out very nicely. Will work great for additional support for sheetrock and insulation loading. The pictures makes alot easier to understand