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Hi, I'm Tim Carter from AssetBuilder.com. Cold winter day. You typically think about insulation
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when it's cold or when it's hot. And I'm here at a new construction job site in New Hampshire
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and inside a garage. And look at this black... you might think this is a black tarp. And
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you might wonder what's going on here? Why is this black tarp down? Well, actually, this
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This is an insulated blanket and right here where I'm squeezing it with my hand is probably
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about an inch thick, inch and a half with a really high impact bubble type wrap and
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it's double layered. And the reason it's down, there's actually two layers of it, is the builder is trying
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to keep the fill material under here so it has not, they don't want it to freeze
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And the reason why is, believe it or not, in the middle of winter, they're going to pour a concrete slab here in a few days. We're going to take this up, put down some insulation
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some of that nice rigid foam. They're actually going to put in radiant tubing and then pour the
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concrete on top of that so that the garage is basically heated. That's going to be a really
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nice feature for this particular homeowner But you use blankets like this before you pour to try Try to keep the frost out of the material You do not want to pour concrete or anything on frozen ground because when it thaws out the material will shrink and then the concrete on top will crack
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You can also use these after you pour the concrete to keep the heat in the concrete. You'll actually
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see that on a lot of job sites, but we'll do that when we go ahead and pour the slab. I'm Tim Carter
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