I joined the hydronic install crew as many hands make that task way easier. Essentially we zip tie a bunch of hoses to the rebar and then pour the slab. What is interesting is how much the boutique home builders charge for this service vs what I actually install it for my clients. It appears the luxury home buying customers don’t mind paying a 300% markup on a radiant heating system. I think what they do is get a sales staff member upsell the system from a show home and they pay a huge commission. At $20000 there is a lot of money to be made in hydronic. Fortunately my custom clients just pay the install price and a management fee and after they move in the floor will be warm and cozy.
All rigged up and pressurized. Inspector has given the thumbs up so we can pour this one. And we aren’t billing the client as an extra cost this was in the budget from the first draft.