Full Home Remodeling in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills whole home remodels that check a concrete floor for hidden radiant heat tubing before walls open, with heating and floors planned around it.
Copper or steel tubing for radiant heat can lie inside the concrete floor of a Beverly Hills house, unseen until a wall or a floor finish comes up. Finding it changes the plan. Saws and anchors have to stay clear of the loops, a leaking loop may mean the whole system is retired, and the new heating, flooring and opening widths all get redrawn around that answer.
Finding the loops
A pressure test on the boiler side tells us whether the loops still hold water, and a thermal camera shows where they run once the system is warmed. Each run is marked on the slab with paint before any cutting, drilling or anchoring starts. If the house has a boiler and manifold in a closet or the garage, that equipment is the first clue, though an old system may have been disconnected and left in place. Where loops cross the line of a wall to be removed, the new posts and footings are placed to miss them.
What the answer changes
A sound system can be kept and fed by a modern boiler or heat pump, which lets the new floors stay warm underfoot through the opened rooms. A failed one is cut off at the manifold, and heat comes from ducts or wall units, which need their own routes through the ceilings. Floor finishes shift too. Tile and engineered wood suit working loops, and a slab with dead loops can take almost any finish. Mechanical changes go to the City of Beverly Hills for plan review with the rest of the remodel, and the written quote lists the heating choice as its own part.
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Any wall can open if its load is carried another way, with a beam, posts and footings an engineer sizes. The back wall facing the garden is the natural candidate, along with a wall between the kitchen and the family room. On a slab with heating loops, footing locations are chosen to miss the tubing.
Yes. The quote can be split into phases, and each one lists what it includes. Heating is the part to settle early, since a radiant slab or a new duct route runs through several rooms at once. Once that system is chosen, kitchen, baths and living spaces can follow in whatever order works for you.
One written quote, divided into parts: structure and openings, heating and other systems, kitchen, baths, floors and finishes. Anything the opened walls or slab reveal, such as heating loops in poor shape, is written up as its own item so you can see which part of the job it touches.
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