Hello friends, my name is Mykola. I’ve been passionate about building and fixing things for as long as I can remember. I love to think about creative projects and then working with my hands to make them become a reality. I love teaching and empowering my friends to become more self-reliant in order to build and fix things around their homes.
Over the years I learned a lot and built a lot of things. Some projects turned out better than others, but I’ve always aimed to learn from my results (good or bad). This helped me push myself to take on more challenging projects and continue to grow and develop my skills.
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Nice job explaining all the components, I followed this setup, the only problem I have with my heating system is connecting the Taco 1 zone switching relay. Can you tell me if the relay is connected to the heating source or just the pump? Thank you for advise
I want to install this system but my pre-plumbing has a drain pipe connecting directing into the water supply line, what am i supposed to do with the drain line?
I have a question. When you turn the thermostat up, do you hear the pump cut in? What may be the issue if you don't hear the pump cut in. Thanks for the great video.
I am going to do this weekend's project. I recently purchased a home, and it utilizes well water. I need to filter my water, and I can see that this is the best way.
We modeled our radiant floor system off of your video and it’s working beautifully! Our next step is to add the thermostat that controls the pump. How did you know what switch relay to get and how to wire it to your thermostat?
Enjoyed the detailed walk through. Do you have a rough estimate on price? I’ve looked at pre built systems and they are outrageous. But I’d like to build my own. Just curious if you had a price breakdown? Thanks
We just installed a setup nearly identical to this video and got all our parts (not including the pex tubing or water heater) for around $1000. The manifold was a big chunk of that.
Great Video! Thank-you. Quick clarification! I understood from the video that at the start, the incoming hot water was going into the wrong manifold, is that correct? In the final installed system, the hot water is shown going into the opposite manifold (the one with the non-white cap), which seems like a mistake. Can you please confirm if my understanding is correct?
At 1:50 you said the water would come out of the manifold at the regulators. At 2:10 you mentioned your pump pulling water out of the manifold with the regulators in it. Between 4:36 and 5:02 you swapped the manifold positions. So my question is.....does the manifold with the regulators get incoming hot water?
this is the only video on internet explained diy system. thank you very much pieces switch sensor and thermostat, trying amazon..no idea: for my house next year 4" concrete electric boiler..no idea how to configure actuators wired up to open close??? what? 4 long sensor from each concrete zone hooked up to a switch box capable of connected to 4 different thermostats? what kind of thermostat? maybe they sell switch relays with 4 thermostats in and somehow wire each actuator to each thermostat and not the switch relay? then thermostat would open or close actuator. no matter what its always just one switch and 1 pump going on or off.??? it can't be that difficult. and WHAT ABOUT EXACT FITTINGS BETWEEN EACH COMPONENT YOU SHOWED??? IS it 3/4" pex or 1"? because the amazon boiler air scoop says 3/4" FIP. your video looks like 1" pex on the wall??? please list the exact connection pieces between each device. thanks
The huge problem with this is radiant floors in concrete take several days to heat up and cool down so your thermostat will make your house act like a wave up and down. This is why real radiant heater boilers stay steady and even have wifi to the weather forecast and adjust days in advance. Its best to use a tankless water heater that you can adjust to keep it steady.
I'm no plumbing expert but you're absolutely correct. A filter isn't meant to deal with the hard water, so putting the softener first optimizes the filtration process as well
@@owg952I was wondering this too but the instruction manual for my AO Smith stuff recommends this order: 1. prefilter/sediment filter 2. whole house water filter 3. water softener
How long was the loop in total? I ask that because I want to understand the power of the pump. How long a loop can one pump run? I have a large floor area where I will need 3,600 feet of pex, which means I will need 12 loops. I wonder if I will need 12 pumps or if I can run all the loops with fewer pumps. Thanks for helping to answer the question.
I have the same water softener looking at getting the express water filter you have as well. How hard was your water, and why did you put the filters before the water softener? Gotta love how easy pex is to work with but boy does it look sloppy haha. (all lop sided and floppy).
thanks for the video! I have a question....do you need to subscribe to a cloud service to record videos or can you record the videos on your phone/sd card when the motion detector is triggered?
Hi Is there switch that has a dimmer and timer built in one? I need to dim my front overhang lights and would like to it to be on a timer as well. For instance have the front lights turn on at 7 PM (Dimmed) and shut off at 10 PM.
Good install very easy to understand, but if your not using O2 barrier pex then the pipe is allowing air through the piping. Not a problem however if you used cast iron pump and not stainless the pump and air scoop will rust out over time sorry didn’t see all the others saying the same thing before I posted. 👍👍
if you you didnt use oxygen barrier tubing on your mechanical room piping. you should add some Fernox, which is a corrosion inhibitor. the oxygen will seep through the regular pex, and prematurely eat away any ferrous metals like your circulators. even if you did use oxygen barrier pex. fernox or any corrosion inhibitor, and certain propylene glycols will have inhibiotrs as well as antiburst/freeze
