In a townhouse construction project with poured concrete ground floors and plywood second floors I noticed that the builder had applied a thick coating (tan in color) to the plywood subfloor that ran up the wall about an inch. This coating turned the entire floor into a monolithic substrate. I suspect that it may be a fire retardant.
There isn't going to be radiant heating is there? In researching radiant heating I have seen the tubing stapled to the plywood and then a substrate poured over it.
Good question. These homes have forced air heat however. Located in South Florida, 10KW heat strip in the A/C air handler for the two weeks a year that we need heat. We use heat so rarely that the complexity of a heat pump is rarely justified.
In townhomes and in high rises I know they do use Gypcrete. It sounds like thats what it is...It is a fire retarding, sound controlling, leveling gypsum cement...Gypcrete is a brand name of the Maxxon Corporation so it may not be exactly that...
I dont know what the code says about it...
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