Installation of the piping for the in slab heat system for our new auto repair facility in Bloomington, IN.

1. INSTALLING THE “IN SLAB” HEAT
AT WORLD WIDE AUTOMOTIVE
Installed on:
April 22, 2009
EarthDay!

2. Dave from Simanton Mechanical
designed and directed the installation

3. The first step in the installation in laying
the insulation blanket in place

4. The blanket has 5 layers

5. Wrestling the blanket into place

6. Next comes the rebar “chairs” that will
hold the rebar sheets above the blanket

7. Then the sheets of reinforcement wire
(rebar) are placed on top of the chairs

8. The “chairs” position the rebar sheets
so they end up in the middle of the
concrete slab once in is poured

9. Next comes the plastic piping

10. The pipe is fed out across the sheets of
rebar in giant loops

11. Areas where the shop’s lifts will bolt
down are marked as “no pipe” zones

12. To keep the pipe in place during the
pouring of the concrete…

13. The great crew from Simanton wired
the pipe to the rebar every few feet

14. That took a lot of wire!

15. The ends of the pipe had to be
channeled to a central location…

16. ..where they will meet up with the
heating system in the mechanical room

17. Thank you Dave & crew!