Our brick floors are now emerging. There was some delay caused by the radiant tubing expanding in the heat and pushing up in the sand above the level that the bricks for the floor are to lay. I should have planned for more sand than the 1.5" specified. With more fill sand, say 3", the leveling of the dirt under the sand and the flatness of the wire grid (which holds the radiant heating tubing in place) would have been less critical. Never-the-less, as you can see, now the bricks are going down. And they look beautiful! Our brick lady, Lorraine Duran is doing a beautiful job. You can tell she "loves her art," as she puts it. Mind you, she has been doing this for almost 30 years so she has had some practice. Indeed, after these photos were taken she completed the entire living room the same day.
Our brick floors are now emerging. There was some delay caused by the radiant tubing expanding in the heat and pushing up in the sand above the level that the bricks for the floor are to lay. I should have planned for more sand than the 1.5" specified. With more fill sand, say 3", the leveling of the dirt under the sand and the flatness of the wire grid (which holds the radiant heating tubing in place) would have been less critical. Never-the-less, as you can see, now the bricks are going down. And they look beautiful! Our brick lady, Lorraine Duran is doing a beautiful job. You can tell she "loves her art," as she puts it. Mind you, she has been doing this for almost 30 years so she has had some practice. Indeed, after these photos were taken she completed the entire living room the same day.
You should put a time capsule under one of the bricks, to be unearthened----who knows when!
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