INSTALLING THE “IN SLAB” HEAT AT WORLD WIDE AUTOMOTIVE

Installed on: April 22, 2009

EarthDay!

Dave from Simanton Mechanical designed and directed the installation

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

The blanket has 5 layers

Wrestling the blanket into place

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

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

The “chairs” position the rebar sheets so they end up in the middle of the

concrete slab once in is poured

Next comes the plastic piping

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

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

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

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

That took a lot of wire!

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

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

Thank you Dave & crew!