February 1, 2007
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Warmboard has arrived!
Yaay, the radiant floor panels from Warmboard arrived yesterday! Now they are all moved into the house and stacked according to kind (Straight Run, Right Turn, Left Turn, and Double Turn).
Boy, that was easy to say, wasn't it? The reality was quite different.
I realized just two days before the delivery that this shipping company does not condone having forklifts stuck on the back of their trucks like remoras (I see that sort of thing all the time in Los Angeles). I knew that each Warmboard panel (4'x8') weighed about a hundred pounds. And that we expected 35 of those panels. That's 3500lbs worth of big unwieldy panels with delicate edges... and little old me to unload them.
I looked into renting a forklift, but then learned that the 4x8 pallets of Warmboard (at least they were in two pallets, each just under a ton) were not on a flatbed but in a shipping container sort of truck, and had to be lifted from their ends. That meant a heavy duty forklift with at least 6' long tines. Plus some way to drag the second pallet close enough to the mouth of the truck to reach it with the forklift... Never mind. I have friends. Don't I?
Yes, it turns out I do. Here they are!
=:= Mr. Peters, Frank Escobar, Virgil Gray, Donnie from across the street, Doug Peters, Eddie Arellano, Steve Storm, and Remy Schrader =:=We did find some minor edge damage, but the factory rep said we can hammer that out easily enough. That metal layer is soft aluminum, not stubborn steel.
I am SO GRATEFUL to these fellows who showed up with one day's notice, all of them taking time off whatever work they were doing, to help me unload all those Warmboard panels by hand. "Many hands make light work", and fun too.
I had promised to buy lunch for anyone who came to help, but only Eddie, Frank, Remy and Steve took me up on the offer. And Steve wound up buying ME lunch! Again, big thanks to all you guys.
Now to get this stuff installed...
Comments (4)
hmmm. korea uses "from the floor" heating... it's nice cuz since we don't wear shoes in the house, your feet are always nice and warm
moving right along! i could use some of that warm flooring!
Yep, they have it in Taiwan too, and many places in northern Europe. Don't know why it's not done so often here (like where you live, Deana). It has the delightful effect of erasing the thermocline between upperhalf and lowerhalf of room, which is especially important when you have children or elderly in your home... otherwise adults, who think the whole room is the temp which they feel between 3' and 6' off the floor, set the temp to a comfy point for themselves, but toddlers and crawlers can sometimes experience as much as a 10 degree difference at their own (near-floor) level. Try it: lie down on your floor for 5 minutes. Nice trick in the summer when you want to be cooler. Plus, crawling babies lose a lot of body heat thru contact with a cold floor: what if the floor itself was 79 or 80 degrees, and radiating that warmth to the whole room?
Hi Nic! just stopped by your blog and like it! creative wording of interests/occupation...thanks for teaching our class last week! good stuff...