Can you heat a house with a water heater???? 

Thanks Joe 😊

Thats awesome. Thanks

That’s awesome. These systems don’t have to be super complicated buddy. Some people spend a fortune on doing there systems. Lol

Thanks Timothy. I appreciate that buddy. 👍😊

That’s awesome. I’m teaching my son the business. He’s big biscuit on my channel lol.

Thanks

Thanks and no we do not have reflectors just bubble insulation. Its like 1500 counting the upstairs.

Grant sorry I missed this question. And thank you 😊 I used some 1" pex for supply and return main piping and 1/2" pex for the tubing that runs through the floor. They are both oxygen barrier tubing. 👍😊

Should last 15 years or more. Thanks

15 years of heating on one tank? unbelievable @@bondobuilt386

Danny thank you. Ill check therm out thanks. 👍👍

@@bondobuilt386 don't check out Navian boilers lol

@@chrisE815 ok why? Lol

@@bondobuilt386 Poor quality product but in general I'm skeptical of condensing boilers. Check out Mikey Pipes- he's a plumber out on Long Island. Unfortunately he installed a lot of Navien units and they all have problems.

@@chrisE815 hard to beat a tank style water heater IMO buddy.

It was mainly due to cost. This house is a rental so I was trying to save where I could. This foundation was real inexpensive. Thanks for watching my videos I really appreciate the support 👍😊

That would just stop water from migrating when there is no call for heat.

@@bondobuilt386 ok, thanks!

Mike we basically poured a frost protected monolithic slab and layed 5 courses of blocks on top of that. So the floor underneith is concrete There is 2” board foam on the inside of the crawl space and we plaster coated the outside with a product called Comproco. Its a fiber reinforced parge mix comes in a bag. The area under the house is conditioned space so its heated like the living area. I made the acess door from 2 layers of foam board skinned with plywood and its fits tight in the opening. 👍😊

That is awesome! I'm sure its really warm. 👍

How much is the propane costing for the heating? Also is there heating on the second floor

@@squeekhobby4571 The heating is about $3.00 a day during the winter months. Did not need any heat in the upstairs. It stays nice up there.

Thanks. I got the land at a tax auction cheap. The foundation is a frost protected foundation on grade and the crawl space is 5 - 8" blocks high. 40" under there.

@@bondobuilt386 : good deal. Wishing you should build more in future

@@squeekhobby4571 Thanks It's a nice place for sure. 😊

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most boiler diagrams now push the water on the hot side now

Thanks David. Just because they are cheaper and don't require a vent. 😊

Tom you could do what is called an open system and supply the domestic water also but you need a stainless pump and they are quite exspensive and this was an investment property. You also could use a indirect water heater or plate heat exchanger. So many ways to plumb this. LOL

Tom I have some videos of cutting stuff on my saw mill. 👍👍

@@bondobuilt386 Yeah, I was wondering about that too. Not questioning you, you obviously have a ton of know-how. It just seems like one water heater could have done both functions if you used a heat exchanger. Around here, (Ontario, Canada), electricity is crazy expensive so I don't use it to heat anything.

@@RobertSmith-bh5cv ya I have done a few systems that use one heater to do both heat and domestic hot water. They are called an open system. Just was easier and quite a bit cheaper to do this one separate. But out electricity isn’t to bad. 😊

@@RobertSmith-bh5cv when using that water heater in a closed system with an expansion tank it will last a lot longer ( almost no corrosion).. He could have added a boiler mate for the domestic hot water heater but his tubing heat is only 125 deg and a boiler mate recovery time would be slow.

Bryce I have never seen a monolithic slab fail. I love them too. They are a real strong foundation. I bought these ICF that were like 15 years old for 5 bucks a piece. This is a house I built real cheap as a rental. I tried to save every where I could. Built it out of pocket. 👍😊

Thanks Mike. I do all my in the wood floor joist radiant heat jobs this way. I never put it to the bottom of the plywood. I do it this way for a few reasons. 1. I think putting it up against plywood will damage the tubing down the road if someone hits it with a fastner changing floors. 2. the heat plates can be noisy as tubing expands and contracts. 3. simplicity. I keep my systems real simple and try not to make things complicated so somebody can't fix them. 4. cost. this is probably the cheapest way to do tubing instal. the hangers are just floor joist bracing that I bend at the ends and screw in. then zip tie tubing to them. Im probably not transferring the heat as well but these houses I build are very well insulated so they are real comfortable and no there is no heat needed in the upstairs. 👍👍

@@bondobuilt386 awesome, thank you. Good stuff, really interested in the radiant floor heat and well insulated exterior details

@@mschumaker1 I have many in floor heat videos where we put tubing in concrete. Also several insulation videos. Check out my channel Thanks

Concrete is the way to do it.

Propane

Thats what I’m talking about buddy. 👍👊

About $80 a month

All that pipe is inside the conditioned space so no heat is lost. I never really thought it was necessary I guess. 😊

@@bondobuilt386 The greater the temperature difference in building and the hot side piping the larger the heat loss! I've done refrigeration for 35 yrs. Now retired.

@@MrMaddogg2010 I’m sure your right buddy. It does work real good and burns hardly any fuel for how comfy the house is though. Thanks 👍👍

Absolutely 👍👍

Nope none in this system.

Message me on Facebook buddy.

@@bondobuilt386 I tried to find you on Facebook nothing come up

@@bondobuilt386 can you try to message me on Facebook @ Rex gordon ‘I can’t seem to pull yours up on FB

@@rexgordon4244 search Ron Bond on Facebook and I’ll come up.

Rex what’s your email address? I send u an email.

No I dont use them. They are noisy as the tubing expands and contracts and They cost more and are not nessasary at all. Also my tubing will not get damaged down the road as it is pushed right up against the plywood. 👍😊

I have no idea what that means Charles. lol

in order to size any heater, you need to know the heat loss of the building first. Heaters are listed by either Kw or BTU output so you can choose what you need. (hint: 1 Kw = about 3400 BTUs)

Sorry buddy that part of the video was taken about 2 years ago. Lol 😂 old and new footage there.

Michael Yes I try and talk people into it. Sometimes I put the tubing down for almost nothing just so they have it. They always call me in the first winter and thank me. Lol

Correct. People don’t get it till winter

@@squeekhobby4571 yup 👍