Build A Log Home - Basement Radiant Heat

“No rest for the wicked” they say, so Eric and I head into the log home build site again on Sunday for more basement prep work.

Today we’re finishing off laying the styrofoam, laying the 6″ square reinforcing wire, and burying the plumbing.

Sometime on Monday the Pex tube will be delivered that will provide in floor heating into our log home. Not knowing when it will arrive - and with the concrete trucks coming on Tuesday morning, we know we must be fully prepared and ready to install the semi-flexible tubing the moment it arrives.

It proves to be another scorching hot day, with blinding visual conditions worsened by a nearly white floor as well as the stark, bright white Logix walls. By this time, Ben Kyle has already been in and placed the last row of Logix blocks and ICF Building Solutions is well prepared for pour day.

We, however, have much work to do still.

For dinner on Sunday evening we popped over to Richard Musclow’s house and Eric had a chance to get direction and information from Richard (the area’s best heating guy - see Musclow Heating located in Bancroft, Ontario) on the best way to lay the Pex tubing for maximum comfort within our finished home.

Richard talked with us for some time about how we would be ‘living’ in our home and armed with that knowledge he laid out a plan for our work on Monday.

The Pex in-floor tubing would be closer together along the frost wall as well as under my office desk. We also discussed the possibilities that this type of heating affords us in the future - should we want infloor heating on the upper floors or decide to expand in the future.