Floor Install (thank you volunteers!)

Triangle Curling Club members have contributed nearly 350 hours of volunteer time over the last week and a half to help install our ice floor. This work has involved...

• Laying down a layer of vapor barrier over sand
• Placing and packing together two layers of styrofoam insulation.
• Laying another layer of vapor barrier
• Placing row after row of chair rails and taping them together.
• Placing an endless grid of rebar and tying the joints together by hand. 
• Helping place the expansion joint around the edge of the rink
• Trimming the excess vapor barrier
• Helping lay and tie down two hundred rows of cooling pipes
• Tying down a layer of steel mesh over the top of all the pipes.

 The Before...

One layer of vapor barrier down, starting the foam.

Laying the chair rails where the cooling pipes rest.

The rebar grid begins.

Tying this grid together was quite the effort, but we knocked it out in a day!

The finished product

Beginning to lay pipe

Almost done! There will be 206 rows in all.

Tying down the mesh.

 The mesh up close

 All the layers....vapor barrier at the bottom, chair rains to hold the pipes, rebar grid, cooling pipes, and mesh layer on top.

Can you match the 300+ hours of volunteer time with a donation to our building fund?