Aluminum

Once all the pieces of tubing have been pulled through the joist bays I needed to fasten the tubing to the ceiling. This is done with pieces of aluminum that have been precut and shaped specifically for this task.

These are the pieces of aluminum that I purchased from www.radiantec.com

This is a shot of the aluminum stapled to the first run of tubing.Each piece of aluminum has about 12 staples.

I like this shot - between the joists looking down one of the runs.

And here is a shot of the very necessary staple gun. I bought this one at home depot, but it turned out to not be powerfull enough. I brought it back and got the next size up. I don't think that going through aluminum is tough, but that plywood is tough stuff!

The Pex tubing needs to run up and down each joist bay. The kit I bought had two 300 foot pieces of tubing. I snaked the tubing through the joist bay at the furthest end of the garage and started working backward.

Here is the end of the tubing...the other end is out in the back yard. It was tough keeping the tubing from getting twisted while so much of it is laying in a big pile in the back yard.

Here is a close up of the first joist bay. One of the ends goes all the way back to the basement and the other end needs to go down and back each of the joist bays. Lot of fun!

Here is the tubing going down toward the basement.

And finally. The first section of tubing is finished. Now I will move on to the next section that goes under the bathroom.