Snowmelt: How NOT to do it - DF

Steamhead

looks like he went right thru the middle of the pipe. I couldn't have done it better :-O

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Dan Foley1

Where's the leak?

This is a snowmelt job we are doing in McLean, VA. The 10" structural slab was poured first with the snowmelt pipe embedded in the pour. The vertical concrete you see is a concrete planter approximately 3' tall and 20" thick. It was poured several weeks after the structural slab. I had spoken to the concrete sub before the second pour warning him about my embedded snowmelt piping. He smiled and nodded his head quickly. I found out afterwards that he did not speak english. I found out the hard way. We had to cut out a 24" wide x 16" tall x 12" deep section of the planter. Sure enough, he had "pinned" the planter pour to the slab with rebar and punctured my pipe. We carefully chipped the concrete away and repaired the damaged pipe with Propex connections. Live and learn. Expensive change order. -DF

J.C.A.

OOOOOOOOOO

I hate when that happens ! Had a guy trimming out a door on a climate panel job put a pich bar into some 3/8 pex a couple weeks ago . No chiseling , but still a pain in the kiester to fix ! Nice job on the repair ! Chris

Riles

Mini sledge and 12\" chisel

I hate seeing those in a picture of a radiant job.

It sounded bad when you described it to me. But the picture really shows it was in the absolute worst place to have to find and repair a leak in that job.

Wow.