Tubing and post anchoring

Radient tubing is attached to the wire grid with zip ties (>500 were used). This is larger tubing than most people use (7/8"), but provides more BTU/ft than most other and has less pump loss. It is a bear to wrestle with though when tying it down. I did 2 folded reverse spirals and this requires that you know where you are going to end and is a bit tedious with the pier obstructions and the pump basin in the way.

Tubing connections with valves, temperature probes, and manifold.

Center beam posts are now anchored to the footings so they cannot shake off (common earthquake retrofit task).

Plates on the top also keep them from vibrating out under strong shaking.

The pink grid

Foam and plumbing

Starting to lay the foam after finally getting all the dirt out of here for leveling.

Drains are roughed in and pump basin is set.

Replacement footing

One of the footings needed to be replaced since when the floor was removed, the post was not even touching the pad. It turns out that the footing blocks were sitting on big rocks placed in the dirt. This did not work so well with our soft sandy soil.

A lot of dirt was moved to level out the floor. With my new laser level, I figured that the house is out of level about 1" front to back and the floor was sloped more than 3". I had to take out about 1.5" of dirt from about 1/2 the floor area. I think this ended up being about 1-2 yards of dirt and had to go out the window in buckets.

Dug the hole for the basin (more dirt to remove!).

Rolled out some large bolders and the useless footing up the ramp (they were not liftable so I would guess >150 pounds each).

Bolder alley...one of these was under the concrete footing...they did end up using rock footings under the concrete footings.

The floor is gone.

The completed the work today...hard to believe 38,000 pounds of concrete can go out a window in 5 gallon buckets (took 3 guys 10 hours to do).

This footing is not even touching the post. The floor must have been holding it up.

Basement Floor

Raya investigates the sewage pump.

Strange depression in one area near foundation crack...

Plumber said he would be done in 1 day...6.5 hours later he said it would take 2 days...

Floor paint removed, but lots of cracks in a wavy slab.

10 doors in the Subaru!

took the back seat bottom out with 2 screws and fit 10 full size doors in with the hatch closed!