In floor radiant heat with a wood boiler.( Heating concrete floors) 

This one has been being built for years. I do like it a lot.

Thats awesome. I'm so glad that the videos are helpful to you guys. 👍

No problem John

Thanks Tom I appreciate the feed back. It's guys like you that keep me doing this channel 👍

Thanks and I would recommend the in floor heat. You will love it. I have many videos to show how to do it. 👍

Awesome. We have alot of videos on ICF for ya and more to come this summer. Thanks for the support of the channel

Jason awesome buddy. Im glad you are getting some ideas from my channel thats what its for. 👍😊

Hi there. 😊 I get almost all my supplies from Supply house. They have everything and will deliver to your door. We would have to start with how big your garage and house is to determine what size the loops of tubing will be. Also what boiler you will be heating everything with. I have some good videos on how to lay out the tubing step by step. 👍😊

Thanks John. 👍😊 How do you like Colorodo compared to that area of New York? What do you mean about having the stone on the slab?

@@bondobuilt386 Hey I love it here near Durango in farm country east of airport. We dont have as much land as we had back east. Climate is nice elevation is 6800 so way higher. Super good deer hunting here a little better than NY bigger bucks for sure, all mule deer. So my old house had about 2000 sq ft of 4in slab insulated with big flat stone floor bedded on the slab. Boiler was outdoor plumbed into a utility room in basement with heat exchanger and Viessman boiler that I hardly ever used since I had a couple hundred acres of hardwood so all I had to do was put a big pile of wood near the boiler. All big stuff so not much splitting and you could put almost 4 ft long in it. No boiler here but wood stove in the shop. Oh forgot the best is that owning 3 properties here my total property tax is under $2k for 80 acres big hose and barn/shop and 3 homes and other structures! Columbia Co. NY was $22k. I really enjoy seeing your projects, giving me ideas as I will be building a house on a 40 acre parcel this spring.

@@johnreilly9748 Awesome.👍👍 Yes its on my bucket list of places to go hunting. Maybe an elk 😊

A wood boiler in the ICF house would be awesome. definitely keep you warm. 👍

I would love to see that setup buddy. You will like the radiant way more then thge hanging heaters I have had both. Just insulate good under there. Watch some of my tubing install videos and you will have a great heater. 👍👊

Ya John my automatic hopper system is when my girlfriend puts the wood in the boiler. lmao 😂 😆

Thanks Jeff. Glad you liked it 😊

Awesome glad you liked it. 👍😊

Thanks buddy 😊 Glad you liked it.

Thanks. I think it should keep us warm this winter 👍👍

Hi it will work great we have set several up that way. 👍👍

Thanks glad video was helpful

Thanks I still have not hooked up the oil yet though. Lol

Thanks buddy. 😊 I actually enjoy plumbing most of the time. Especially the heating end of it. I find it quite rewarding to hook up the heat to the tubing.

Ok Thanks for the comments and I will. 👍👍

Your welcome Richard 👍🙁

@@bondobuilt386 Thank you I want to use something like this for heating my own home one day.

Thanks Terry. I have hooked up a bunch of different wood boilers to the pex tubing. 👍👍

Matt thanks buddy. 👍 check out part 2 of this boiler if you havent already. 😊

Thanks Bob. I have another video about this boiler. Ill send you a link. 👍😊

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you could get a pellet boiler to heat the water for the in fkoor heat. I built my house before I got into the ICF stuff.

Tom I find 120 degrees works real good for in floor heat. Glad you liked the video buddy 👍👍

Glad you like it Scott

Thanks appriciate the feedback. that might be a good idea.

Thanks Bruce 😊

Hit the thumbs up but didn't turn blue.....go figure it's utube

@@heidistortroen5209 thank you 😊

Thanks Doc. 😊👍 Thanks for subscribing buddy

Well thanks Bondo 👍 glad you liked the video buddy. 😊 Thanks for subscribing

I would use that boiler if it were me and big enough buddy. Oil heat is hot and will work well in the in floor heat. What kind of boiler is it? Model number and size? Where do you live? How big is the barn going to be? You could run the boiler to some hydronic hanging heaters also if you didnt want to put in floor heat in ?

Travis awesome buddy. I will be doing more videos like this for you guys. Seems like you guys like this stuff. 👍

Ok buddy this so good how you guys doing the moming

@@traviscover590 thanks 😊

Hi nic. You want to use 1/2" oxygen barrier pet tubing. The mixing valve just steals cooler return water and mixes it with the hotter water from the supply on boiler. The radiant heat only needs 100 to 120 degree water and the boiler is hotter so it just tempers it. This system maintains a steady temp with the controls I have in place and no damaging pipes. Sorry for the late response this question got lost in my inbox. just found it.

Thanks William. Do you miss the snow?

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Lol thanks. If it's cold outside it gets pretty hungry. Lol usually ever 4 hours I'll throw a couple chunks on.

Awesome glad you like the videos buddy. What you want is a 50!gallon gas or oil commercial water heater. HTP makes a nice one called the Phoenix light duty that is in gas. Bosch makes a nice oil unit but you need to vent the oil with a chimney. The gas just uses pvc for venting. I’m gonna put together some videos of different heating systems this winter. 👍👍

@@bondobuilt386 My property would (currently) be propane, but I'd probably fire an oil unit on an outbuilding like that. Reading up on this stuff shows I'd probably burn a tank of oil a season, which would be SIGNIFICANTLY less than the propane. Thanks for the feedback. I was shocked when I saw some of the quotes people were getting ($10,000~$15,000 for the system WITHOUT the concrete). I'm looking at this and saying "more like $3500~$5000 depending on boiler, and valving. As you said, 400' runs means no need for all kinds of balancing valves. :)

@@WreckDiver99 yes buddy go with the oil unit if you don’t mind the chimney. It will be cheap to run and maintain. Keep the tubing the same lengths and it will work like a dream. Get some cheap copper headers that have the pex ends. I did one and they heat 1500 sq foot house with one tank of oil in upstate New York and we get cold here. As long as you insulate property you will be in great shape. 👍👍

I totally agree with that then I could store more heat. 👍👍

@@bondobuilt386 You will find tank that yoy can use.

@@786otto Yes a big propane tank perhaps. 👍😊

This unit here burns real hot and clean. It does not make creosote so not much cleaning and when I check it it is just fly ash to sweep out quick.

Oh, just in case you're not familiar with the saga of the Turdy Point Buck (it's a Northern Michigan thing): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tnHNqvOB42M.html

That stand is pretty stout I made it from pallet racking that is 3/16 wall 2-1/2" Square stock. You could park a bus on that thing. LOL

@@bondobuilt386 Gotcha, from the look I got in the video I thought it was a simple 2x4 framework.

@@michiganengineer8621 👍

Yes you get a lot of hot water from this setup. You could heat glycol for sure with this heat exchanger. 👍

Edward I don't think the cost of doing that would be worth the benefit gained. I think if the circulator failed it would still be able to freeze but it would take a long time as insulated as we are to freeze anyway.

Hi Casy Casy I’m going to put a strap on aqua stat on my side arm but right now the zone valve is just manually open. So water coming from my boiler just loops through there and pre heats it. The boiler runs around 160f and the mixing valve just tempers the water down to around 120f. It steals return water and mixes it with boiler water. You don’t want 160f going into your in floor heat. So with that being said my domestic water is a little less then 120f.

Thanks Andre yes it worked good this winter 👍

@@bondobuilt386 What would be a mechanical room size you would suggest for this type of system? Currently 6 x 20 but I feel like 6 feet may not be wide enough? Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks

@@PineCreek87 are you putting the wood in there too? Or just the boiler?

@@bondobuilt386I have a wood shed and would like to store a cord or two inside.

@@PineCreek87 I think 6 feet would be fine but 8 feet would be better. You need room to get all the way around the boiler to hook up and service. 😊

Thanks for watching. hope the videos are helpful. Are you referring to the homemade boiler?

Hi Denis. We work mostly in Oswego county. Usually I have more then I can handle locally. Talk to the concrete company’s in your area and that’s a good way to find out who does ICF around you and if there any good at it. This is a real good foundation system buddy. 👍

Just the manifold is copper but the floor has pex tubing in it.

It takes a good day to get all the floors warmed up but after that they heat up and stay warm. once the floors are warm it actually heats the objects in the space and not the air so much. when your feet are warm you just feel more comfortable even if its not as warm on a thermometer.

@@bondobuilt386 ; thanks. My feet are cold and love to have radiant heat.

@@squeekhobby4571 You would love it.

No sir. My shop would never freeze. It’s like 75 degrees in there all winter. Lol 😂

Ya Jim we make venison sausage we had some last night in the shop wit h some friends and some beers. LOL Than pex tubing was a pain to get into the sewer and drain pipe. I stretched it all out and got it straight and the memory out from being in t he roll. Then I put the pipe insulation on it and then duck taped everything and pulled one 10 foot piece of pipe over it at a time. The pex in my floor joist are just hooked to the metal bridging straps with zip ties. I think it shows in another video. Ill send it to ya buddy.

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The mixing valve tempers the water to 100 to 120 degrees ferenheight

The concrete will be fine and will not cause any problems you just don’t want 160 to 180 running into there. 100 to 120 is perfect for radiant heat. Supper nice way to heat a space. 👍

Yes it burns more wood but is much simpler and less stuff to break and not many moving parts.

The l;oops are 1/2” oxygen barrior tubing buddy I’ll send you a couple videos on doing tubing it explains it all in detail. 👍😊

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Thanks

@@markme4441 You bet Mark 👍😊

That’s a pipe within a pipe. Maybe I’ll do a video and try and explain that. I built it before I was doing RU-vid. Sorry

@@bondobuilt386 dont you get air build up at the top of the heat exchanger, where it reduces back to 3/4 inch?

@@domenicoangelini5264 No I never have had any air in there after the system is blead of air.

Yes you could put 1" foam down and tubing and pour 3" slab on top. Or if it's for a house a wood stud foam combo with plywood over it. I have done that in garage to family room conversions.

Where are you located?

@@donmutchler939 Mexico New York.

I could but I would probably burn a bunch more wood. LOL

@@bondobuilt386 could make it switched. Coarse shovel then turn on the heat

​@@elischultes6587 True I could but then I GOTTA CUT MORE FIREWOOD. LOL 😂

I have bought about this a few times.

@@bondobuilt386 there is a ĺace on you tube that shows how the rooftop heat colllectors are made. They will sell you parts or an entire system. They are in California.

Thats awesome I'd love to see that rocket stove boiler in action buddy. Thanks for the compliment very nice to say. 😊

@@bondobuilt386 I'm not as good and thoughtful to my project as u have. I have a channel that followed the first attempt. Columbus Brooks. My Utube channel

@@columbusjuju5500 Ok I’ll check it out 👍😊

Hi Janet. Why would I want to do that? The shop has the tubing in the floor already. It’s super warm out there.

@@bondobuilt386 so it does not cook the coil from being dry inside

@@janethouck3471 oh ok I see. It’s a copper coil so not sure about that?

Wade I want to get it hooked up for sure. Good idea with the valve. 👍

@@bondobuilt386 I have oil boiler backup to my wood boiler and it's a great feature. I have a control box which determines when to switch to oil. It's based on the water temp in the wood boiler.

Wade I'd like to do a video on your set up buddy. 👍👍 Give your channel a shout out as well 👍

I burn about 16 face cords of wood a year. No antifreeze in the system. It would take a month of it shut down and probably would still not freeze. Thanks 😊

Ya Matt we are going to do one on your setup

@@bondobuilt386 his is just a pot of water, too boring! 🤣

@@Woodman_Custom_Sawing ya boring but it works. Lol

Alternate heating systems out of PA.

I made it big time. LOL 👍😊😊😊

Ok 👍

No the temp is at 120 F it starts at 160 from boiler then mixing valve lowers it to 120.

@@bondobuilt386 floor on 120F?

@@radomirradovanovic6903 yes 120 F.

Dave why don't you put together some videos and show us all how its done. That would be more helpful then saying negative remarks on others youtube videos. You must be a pro.