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Locate Radiant Heating Lines in Concrete

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Kitchen Makeover + PLUMBING ON CONCRETE (Ep.2)

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What happens here

To prevent damage to the radiant heating system embedded in the concrete slab, an infrared thermal camera (specifically a FLIR brand device is shown) is used. The camera visualizes heat patterns, revealing the precise paths of the hot water tubes beneath the surface. Red and orange colors on the display indicate warmer areas where the tubes are located, while cooler blue areas represent safe zones. This allows the user to identify a 'no radiant flooring' safe zone of approximately 20 inches, which is then marked on the floor to guide subsequent concrete cutting.

Goal: Before any concrete cutting, a thermal camera is used to accurately locate the radiant heating tubes embedded in the concrete floor, identifying safe zones for cutting.

Tools and materials

  • FLIR Infrared Thermal Camera FLIR

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warming of the slab out if i start cutting into it i could cut the water lines and this is going to be a huge mess probably one of my biggest nightmares so there's ways to go around that i picked up one of these infrared thermometers that anywhere i point it tells me and it gives me an image so as you can see here we have this bright red and orange and you can actually see the looping of where this radiant flooring goes then we see a cold spot here and then it picks up again to the next room so what this is telling me is i have roughly around a 20 inch gap of no radiant flooring safe zone so i made my markings here so now we have to cut this concrete out get it out put

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