In looking around for flat cement type flooring I found Ardex Engineering
that does a variety of 'filled' cement floors, as does Lightcrete. I found a
company in my area, Michigan, that does this stuff as well as normal
concrete floors. He sounded like he would know about this kind of problem.
You might try the Ardex site and see if there is someone in your area who
does this and can give you advice. If not, let me know and I'll ask our
local guy.
http://www.ardex.com/index.htm
Briank
> From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
> Reply-To: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:38:38 -0700
> To: Mike Sloane <msloane@att.net>
> Cc: shop-talk@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: building a shop - radiant heat
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:59:33PM -0400, Mike Sloane wrote:
>>
>> There was some lengthy discussions about the subject on either this or
>> the Antique Tractor list last year. It seems to me that the problems you
>> may encounter are with corrosion of the pipe in the concrete, but I
>> cannot recall the details nor what the solution was. Other than that,
>> the application is basically sound.
>
>
> Nowadays, they use plastic (probably polyethlyne) tubes.
> Old Eichlers in Palo Alto used galvanized pipes, with predictble
> results. Or they uses copper pipes, and failed to protect them from
> the concrete and the lime oxidized them.
>
> Not too long ago I saw some poly flor-heating tubes in the middle
> of construction at a winery in Napa. They use styrofoam as a base
> and as spacers to hold the tubes apart. then put the flooring on top.
>
> Dunno how well that would work for a shop that will have heavy cars and
> machine tools on its floor.
>
>
> Eric
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