Up in the Mountains w Snow Melt

Paul Pollets

That's 40ft per year in a heavy year, not in one storm....

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Paul Pollets

Rough-In

Spent most of Labor Day weekend up in the Cascade mountains 90 mi east of Seattle. Large resort development community with over 2000 custom homes. Design temp 9 degrees with snowfall accumulations of 20-40 ft.

The home is 4400sf slab on grade with 4 levels and bonus over garage that will be heated with QuickTrak. All Uponor TruFlo manifolds and hePEX. Snowmelt apron in front of garage with heated steps and front entry. Vitodens 11-64 boiler with V300-79g tank and Tekmar 664 snowmelt control will be done in mid October.

A very beautiful place to work but a local concrete strike has caused extensive project delays and made life very chaotic for the frenzied GC's and radiant guys...all who are trying to beat the weather deadlines.

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Mark Hunt

20-40 FEET?


DAMN!!!!!

Did you build them a snow-melt tunnel as well?? To get out of the house when 40 feet of snow fall??

Looks great, but I do not envy anyone that gets 40 feet of snow.

Mark H



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Paul Pollets

Rosylyn

The nearest town is famous for the TV show "Northern Exposure"...Remember??

20 ft is a slow year for accumulation. But winters have been warming in the Cascades for years and there's been less snowfall than ever. Mt Baker gets an average of 90+ ft per winter. 100 miles up the range.

From the Mt Baker website:

"The heavy snowfalls normally experienced in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State are the result of several factors. Winter is naturally the wettest season as the west-to-east planetary circulations expands southward and strengthens in speed, with storms striking the Pacific Northwest every few days. Air laden with moisture after its journey across the Pacific is forced to ascent the Cascade Range, dropping abundant precipitation. Freezing levels average about 4,000 feet over the winter months, so that near this altitude snowfall amounts increase very rapidly with just small increases in elevation. This season, a moderately strong La Ni

Mark Hunt

Good golly


I would hope not.

Cheers!

Mark H

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Constantin

Looks like they hired the right contractor...

.... a very nice and orderly job! I'd never install a snowmelt system myself, but this looks pretty sweet.... I like your alternating use of colors to keep the various loops tidy and organized, foolproofed, etc.

I am somewhat surprised how close you came with the tubing to what I presume are pads for columns? Maybe my eye is fooling me , but it almost looks like the tubing would be right on the edge of a relief-cut around the columns...

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the next set of pictures!

Paul Pollets

tubing

those are column pads, but tubing has clearance.

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Ray Landry_2

Looks great Paul, your knees must be sore!

Paul Pollets

It's the back...

I spray the layout with a spray paint handle...still, lots of bend-over. The younger crew guys who do the tie-down don't seem to mind.

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ScottMP

Damn

you get some great work Paul.

Can't wait to see the rest of it.

Scott

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