Installing Radiant Floor Heat in my new DREAM SHOP (Plus Concrete Prep) 

Our new single Living Stereo made it into the video at 21:56 . Also the music video is now LIVE on RU-vid. Thank you to Matt and all the Diesel Creek viewers for all the support and kind words. You have given our music a place to shine. We appreciate you!

Love the absolute certainty Matt feels that his wife doesn't watch his videos so he can surprise her with her gift on xmas that he share with all of use in November 😂

I did radiant heat for quite a number of years, and let me tell you, there's NOTHING like radiant heat. And with a cement floor, it's GREAT!! I always promised myself that when I finally got my own home, thats what I would put in it, and I did!!

It's a good idea to have the trough drains feed to a catch basin before running into the pipe. That way you have a way to filter dirt and debris. You won't need to worry about backups and cleaning the lines as often. Not going to lie, I am very jealous of your dream shop. Thanks for the amazing content!

You DO need the wire mesh. The crack control it will provide under the heavy loads you will have on that slab is invaluable for long term structural integrity. Also, typically wire mesh in structural applications require 1 to 2 squares of overlap to give the support needed. Your concrete guy assures you that you don't need it because it's a pain to do a reinforced slab. Especially with a laser screed. I've done literally millions of square footage of tilt up warehouses with laser screeds. You need two extra guys to lift the wire mesh after the screed has driven over it and before the concrete gets placed. Those laser screeds like about a 5" to 8" slump, so I'd think about using a water reducer in the concrete to help avoid shrinkage cracking to get to that slump instead of adding water. Personally if I did a shop floor that was going to have heavy equipment on it I'd do at least #4 @ 16" OC EW. Hope you see this Matt, lol. Especially the part about the water reducer. I'm a special inspector and I worked in a concrete laboratory for years. I have a bunch of certifications for concrete laboratory work (ACI concrete Lab tech level 1, which requires three other certifications to get) and a bunch of certifications for concrete field work (ACI, ICC, WAQTC, WABO e.t.c e.t.c). So I can give you the book and field version answer to pretty much every question you'll ever have on concrete, lmao.

I would strongly suggest putting at least a 2 1/2" x 1/4" thick angle iron (not just concrete) as the raised lip you spoke about to keep the driving wind/rain out. Maybe weld some spikes to it to secure it to the concrete when poured. That way your tracked machines won't ever crack the edge coming in and out.

“It almost looks like I know what I’m doing but I assure you, I do not” lmao, I nearly spat my drink out the way you said that. Fantastic job on the shop floor prep, you’re right about the pex looking like a work of art, great job. Keep up the great content.

That PEX tubing is definitely a two man job ! That turn table was pure ingenious genius !

We use a long leg "f" shaped bar to work rebar. Its a great tool and takes 5 mins to make.

Matt, the wire mesh needs a foot overlap, otherwise the concrete will crack. Also, you have to use inch and a half chairs between foam and wire mesh

Matt: For your wood boiler: I suggest Central Boiler. I have an older E3200 gassification unit and it kicks 600,000+ BTU/hr with zero smoke, once it gets hot. It loves pine and sap woods - the secondary burn chamber turns that stuff into rocket fuel. Lower chamber gets close to 2000 degrees with the right mix. I suggest you also add an extra water tank (we used a large cheap water heater that isn't even hooked up to create heat), and minimize the electronic zone controls. We heat 5000+ square foot, two forced-air systems, one hot water and 1200 ft of stone floor with it, and fill it maybe twice a day in the coldest winter. All with one Taco pump for the main heat, and one smaller Taco for the stone floor. You could do your whole garage with one. It is tempting to plan your install alone, and use lots of gizmos. Give me a comment and we'll exchange contact info. My brother is north of you, and has installed more than 200 of those things over the years. The manufacturer calls him to fix botched installs. He's no salesman. He will walk you through doing it right. He did mine a dozen years ago. Best decision I made. FWIW, my son loves your channel and rocks the DC hat everywhere he goes. edit: the ash pile from a few years of boiler operations stands thigh high, and maybe 3 feet across. The new gassification units are that efficient.

I just want to let you know that there is a lot of hype about ESTABLISHED TITLES being a scam and you might want to look into them a bit more.

Matt you may want to consider putting re-bar tie in’s from the edge of your main interior slab where your overhead door openings are (like you did on the crane pier’s) it helps strengthen the future concrete aprons outside of your building. An additional suggestion for your concern of wind /water blowing in at the bottom of the overhead doors, on my project’s this size, I use a 1-1/2 dia galvanized round bar x the width of the door plus 2”, I drop these in the wet concrete and sink em about 1/2 way in. Then pull the overhead door down and make sure the round bar lines up with the door and seals on the doors rubber btm seal. This prevents water intrusion and is easy to drive heavy equipment over it too, it actually lengthen’s the life of the overhead door seal considerably too because it doesn’t freeze the rubber door seal to the slab in cold temp’s. Just my thoughts.

Here I go again, watching Matt do his work and not doing my own. It's looking great so far!

23:35 That explains the Busch Lite can sitting on the 5-ton

You absolutely DO need the rebar. Good decision! Super thrilled to see it all completely finished! I built a massive house by myself and I know how hard it is, and how rewarding and satisfying it is when you see the results! Looking forward to what's next. Cheers from Argentina, say hi next vid to the south hemisphere viewers out here 🙂

You are going to love the radiant heat in your shop! I put in pex for in-floor heating when I built my pole barn back in 2016. The tubing sat dormant until 2020 when I was finally able to insulate the walls and install a boiler. I'm so glad I chose this option. I'm in central Minnesota and can work all winter in my pole barn in shirt sleeves.

Whenever I see your tow behind roller compactor - I see the Jeep CJ engine donor 😁 0:50

That floor looks so cool! Great job on putting it down. I hope this new shop brings your prosperity and joy!

Can't believe how excited I am to see this project coming to fruition. Truly you are a man of many talents and one of the hardest working guys I've seen coupled with your ingenuity and sheer guts to try things to see if they work out. You deserve every success!!

That Custom made wood rotating Spool Holder is cool 😎 very creative Matt 25:43 @Diesel Creek

Hi Matt - for anyone that cares there's a school of thought that the supply and return lines on the radiant are to be run parallel. In other words, you should be starting at the manifold with the two cut ends of a pre-measured loop, so that the supply side and return sides are laid down next to one another. When you get to the end you have a loop in your hands. This ensures that the heat is evenly distributed . The way you did it (it will work no worries) all of the heat is given up at the start of the run and not much left at the end which can cause unevenness. It takes some planning to have the right length of pex figured out, but this way the hot supply water is more evenly distributed throughout the entire slab. There are computer programs that can size the loops. I know exactly how much work you have been doing - mad respect. Keep up the good work.

If I had not already mentioned it Matt, to get a really nice water tight seal at the doors just embed a 3 or 4 inch aluminum pipe directly under the garage doors for them to sit on. Leave about a quarter or so of the pipe above the concrete for the door gasket to seal to. When I was a youngster I helped my dad do that to our garage floor and it has lasted for about 60 years. You have an awesome build going on there!

Hi, where I work, they built a new garage and put floor heat in, awesome for the mechanics ! But they put a different type in, the company they used uses pvc pipe & special garden hose inside the pipe so if you spring a leak ,you just pull out the bad hose while you pull new hose in through the pvc ! Sure is much better than having to rip up the floor trying to find a bad section of tubing .

Around here, where the winters are way milder than at Matt's place, 6 inches of styrofoam floor insulation was the norm 20 years ago. Now it's 8 inches (200mm) The thin layer he put down would be considered so-so for a storahge shed that you'd might want to heat up occasionally. Seem like the potential heating savings in USA are gigantic.

That's a lot of work Matt! Your dream shop is definitely taking shape! Love your videos! 👍

Matt if you have a real good heater in a vehicle lay the pex tubes in vehicle thr day you start and retrieve as you go along ,that way it's at best a moderate temperature to work with,it will not cause too much heat in a given spot.

Hi Matt, as a plumbing and heating engineer here in the UK l was impressed with your laying in the Pex pipe. Well done.

Matt as plumber and heating engineer that was a A rated installation by a mechanic with a common sense attitude,you are the man 🇬🇧👍🔧 Dave

You can't get "lord" or other title just by land ownership, and Scotland's land registry doesn't support fractal land ownership. So Established Titles is just a scam run from Hong Kong, they don't have offices at Scotland, and land they actually own can't be planted with trees, coz it's protected are (-> cheap). So both land and titles are fake, if you really believe that they give any your money to the charity, it's your business.

Not only is the rebar going to join the two strengthening the peiers but it’s also strengthening the pad itself, very brilliant

Hi Matt, love your videos. Just a heads up in regards to your sponsor "established titles". There are quite a few RU-vid videos currently exposing this company as a scam. Turns out this company is based in Hong Kong and have conned quite a lot of well known and respected RU-vidrs like yourself. Please do some research yourself as i wouldn't like to see your reputation or any of your subscribers getting hurt by these crooks. Cheers, Peter.

I think l have seen a similar spool tool on DIRT-PERFECTS VIDEO when he’s laying what he calls tile. It’s great when something works that you have made! I hope you have fun the rest of the build!

Putting radiant floor heat in my shop was one of the best decisions I ever made. I had to wuss out though and pay a contractor to handle it (just didn't have the time to fit into the schedule) so I admire you running it yourself. Finally had to fire it up for the season this week when the snow started hitting hard but when it's warm it keeps temps really well. I'm sure you'll love it!

I know it is almost done ,but what I did with my shop is I put an electric panel ether side of the shop . Way easier to run wire and cheaper with more versatility. Love your shop with I put a crane in mine.

Wow that pex came out amazing looks Like Floor Art Came out very cool Matt 31:00 @Diesel Creek

Before pouring your floor you should put up plastic along the walls to keep the concrete spashes from getting on the wall. Maybe you should of roughed in a water line and sewer line for a later possibility of putting in a bathroom and sink possibly with a shower as well so its already in the ground for a later day.

Matt I'm seeing a post this morning by "No Nonsense Know How" and he's claiming that the Established Titles company is a complete scam which he turned down, as you're one of my favourite channels you might want to check out his claim to see if there is any truth in what he says..

you can put one of them out side wood boilers in so it really won't cost you anything to heat the shop!

Matt, that is a professional job that I have seen on the installation of concrete flooring. Are you sure you've never done this type of project before? Kidding. Awesome work especially doing it by yourself. One thing I always admire about your projects. Do it once the correct way, so that you wouldn't have to come back and do it again, big projects in particular. Happy Thanksgiving Matt to you and yours.

A southpaw! Never realized it.

I'm excited to see the shed coming together - and what a shed it will be (better than the house I'm living in). Have always enjoyed the music. PS. Where I live, we call them gantry cranes.

FYI there’s a lot of info that’s been surfacing recently about established titles being a scam. Dave from EEVblog just put up a video with a lot of info

It is called a spinning Jenny I used them when fencing For farmers

This is going to be a brilliant workshop for you Mat. It's really coming together now! 💪👏👏👏👏

Mate I always put a 12mm permiter bar around entire slab, taught to me by my grandfather and I've never had a slab fail in 40 years. Ties it all together. Great job from Oz.

Ag pipe bro. you could have your whole site and surrounding acres fully drained to a metre deep or 2 metres if you want with a few trenches with ag pipe. cheap quick effective.

Damn matt you are going to have so much more room for activities. Congrats bro you deserve it. Thank you for bringing us along.

Hey ! Make sure you fill the pipes up with water sp they have pressure before you fill with concrete. Or else some pipes can collapse. That is not good. Almost forgotten, good work. I'm cheering Best Regards

You are 100% right on that floor, you only get one shot at overbuilding concrete! Any concrete guy that looks at the Kobelco and still says you dont need the reinforcement would be suspect to me! Nice job!

Oh Matt, love watching the dream shop come together! And you made putting that pipe in the insulation in the floor look like fun. 😂

I first subscribed to this channel when you were building your container shop. I’d been searching for ideas for my own shop and found your channel. Even then you were talking about your dream shop, happy for you that it’s finally coming together and you haven’t had to take any shortcuts or compromise.

Accomplishment = A vital part of feeling good about yourself, your abilities and being proud of what you do. It’s the essence of why we do things and what we gain from our hard work.

Just a thought--I've never worked with or used pex piping, but did/will you do a leak check on it before pouring concrete? The house next door used it, and one pipe had a tiny pinhole in it that caused a slow drip and took months to be detected when the owner noticed wet carpeting. Had to tear out a wall to fix it.

Congratulations Matt, on laying the floor frame for the concrete. Can wait to see the completed floor. Matt hope you and your family have a great Thanksgiving Weekend coming up. Happy Thanksgiving.

I'm surprised your not running a Straight Zigzag line All the way down From wall to wall the width of the building never seen the pex ran the length of the building like this before Matt 28:26 @Diesel Creek

this thing is really starting to come together. it's getting real exiting watching this series.

Your workshop is coming on great, all that prep work really pays off, you are making a very good job of all the work that you do. Great videos, keep going.

Great job. I loved this post. On a side note...."Lady Eva". I like the sound of that and I'm sure she will too.

@Diesel Creek Just a thought. I know it’s more expensive. But you may want to look into having at least a inch of closed cell foam sprayed on all the walls too! With a poll barn or steel building you get lots and lots of sweating on the inside of the walls. It will rot out the wood very fast. The one inch of spray foam is a thermal break so it won’t sweat nearly as bad if at all. Once that’s on you can install your regular insulation bats over it for the real insulation value. It will also stiffen up your walls considerably as a added bonus. Just want you to check into it yourself so you can see what I mean about the walls sweating. Cheers and thanks for taking the time to video all your stuff for us to watch. It’s fantastic!!!

Hey Matt, love seeing your dream garage becoming a reality. Mate,I live in Queensland, Australia so I’m not familiar with the cold and snow you guys encounter but I recently watched a smaller scale job to yours in another cold area of America and they had a giant invasion of mice etc due to the warmer environment so I suggest that you really look into vermin proofing your building. Starting to look awesome mate.

Thinking how neat it would be to have an IR imager up in the rafters the first time you heat this system up - you'll be able to see the heat propagation clearly!

The tubing laid down well! I thought it would have had more memory in it. Nice job Matt.

I'm not an expert on concrete but have watched and helped those who are and one think that struck me is if you take the trouble to use mesh it is generally sitting on bar chairs so it's slightly elevated from the base surface and allows concrete both below and above the mesh. Bar chairs are relatively cheap and very easy to install. You have time to add them all the way to the pour. Also wondering what spacing you plan to use on the slabs for expansion joints. I don't know if it's available in the States but we always used Bondcrete when putting concrete on existing concrete, not cheap but works a treat.

Rock went down pretty fast ON the time lapse Looks good Matt 11:09 @Diesel Creek

That is a scam. The company selling the land is not the owner of the land. It is a company from China that does not own the land, in fact they haven't even seen the land. Look in the land registry for the company. Please look at the reviews for the company on google. Anybody can send a certificate by email. Some people like me didn't even get one. Please check them out before being associated with them.

Every days progress brings the dream shop closer to being in service and to some great video content for us out here. Great job Matt, excited for you, thanks for the update sir.

The floor strength comes from the concrete. The mesh won't stop the concrete from cracking, but if it cracks it will stop the cracked pieces from moving. No need for pockets for the doors. Weather stripping on the bottom of the door stops the water from entering.

Hey Matt, the video sponsor Established Titles, you might want to research them to see what you’re promoting.

I don't want to be a downer but that company you got sponsoring you are no good, NNKH has got a post about it on his community tab and he said to warn anyone taking their money it's a scam. On the nice side, your shop looks really good!

Rebar mats will reduce the chances of any large cracks in the poor as weather temps and such work on it

Hey Matt - pretty sure Established Titles is a scam, the titles are not real, you buy no land and most of the money goes to lining their pockets. They may or may not give a bit of it to charity. Please consider carefully whether you want to be associated with them.

Anecdotally have seen the pex in those radiant floors burst in super cold weather (Garage doors get left open). Don't know if maybe you plan to use a glycol solution or something resistant to freezing but if not make sure to keep it warm and don't forget to shut the doors because it's pretty impossible to replace. The shop is looking amazing though!

Lot of back breaking work. It'll all pay off in the end. Now let's get that concrete in.

I am in awe of your skill set and your can-do attitude. It is a pleasure to watch you work. Just one thing. You might want to think about installing stands (chairs) between rebar mesh and insulated floor. I think engineering standards call for rebar mesh to be located between the center and upper third of the slab cross section. This is especially important as you will be working on heaving equipment in that shop. Also don't forget to vibrate that concrete as it is poured

I don't know, if it is allready in your plans. But when the whole heating system is installed, you shoud do a hydraulic balancing. Setting the correct water-flow for each heat-cycle. And setting up the heat-source correctly, so that not more heat than needed is produced. When turning the heat to full on the distributor, it should make just the heat, that you really need. Can save a lot of money......and of course is better for the environment, too. Don't know, if I got the right words....I'm not a native speaker :D :P

that foam really ties the room together..

Your ingenuity always surprises me. You’re the man! It’s going to be an awesome feeling when this project is done.

How are you securing the Crain to floor? If bolts, it would be beneficial to concrete them in so you don't need to drill and use anchors.

Remember if you have burrowing critters in your area, and you have an insulated floor, be sure to protect that insulation. You can lay wire under your vapor barrier, or dig a ditch for wire around the perimeter. Because they will try to get under that slab and make confetti out of the blue board.

You really amaze me at how much dedication that you have you do it all by yourself congratulations on which you achieved so far!

Hej Matt, don’t fortet to put in to the concret a visibel steel bar to protect the Sharp concrete edge at the doorway. Keep up good work and best regards Mr Staffan from Sweden

Matt the company who sponsored you are scammers. Do some research brother. Love the videos.

Very curious how every comment calling out this Established Titles scam, has been pushed to the very bottom of the list, hmmmm.

Be sure and video the crane installation. Thanks. I enjoy all your videos. Keep them coming

Been reading a lot of negative feedback about the sponsor of the video. Shady business dealings and what not. So RU-vidrs have dropped that sponsor after research was done.

Master plumber here -> You did a great job with the radiant heating!

Math your working monster you dont stop that why Ilove your chanel .

Something I'm courious about. Would an overhead camera shot of all the piping layout be beneficial for future reference for drilling into concrete etc. Just wondering. Lots of envy and admiration for what this man accomplishes.

You really made that look easy Matt. Brilliant idea bro. Looking awesome my friend. God bless.

Best way to cut that foam is a hot electric rod or use a metal hanger and torch.

Established Titles is a scam, please look into it!

try two boxes overlap of the mesh

Matt i'm being honest this has got to be one of the Best channels on Y/T !! brilliant Content and your Video skills have improved Immensley from a year or so ago ,keep it up ! Best Wishes from UK

Great job, Matt, you are a man of many talents even if you don't think you know what you're doing. From the looks of that floor prep, you're definitely Pro Material! Looking forward to the main pour!🙂👍

Matt I'm sure the slab is poured before this video is posted my floor cracked around the footing not heated your crane footings non heated difference in temperature only a slight bit. Pex tubing in my case was doubled up around entryways where most heat is lost being in contact with outside frozen or cold ground. Heated floors are the best though

For a person that has never done this before, your looking like a professional! love your channel.

Such a coool freaking project, so happy for him! Best wishes on getting this completed, looking forward to seeing it all Matt!

Thanks!

The shop is looking great, Matt! I hope you have plans for a nice big Diesel Creek sign on the front!