Moment of Truth...Will My D.I.Y. Radiant Floor Heat Work? - Leg Arm's House Build Part 13 

It wasn't mentioned in the video but we are using 50/50 glycol/water. Not pure 👌

Cherish the memories . Love the channel.

Beautiful work. Note from.a.65 year old grandma. My husband has a utility room full of well, infloor heat, water filters, etc. He got sick 2/years ago and spent 2 months in the hospital. We had water issues when he was in there. I WAS LOST. When he got well I made him make me an operating manual for all of it. Pictures and all. I now have a 75 page manual on how it all works in case he is not around. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

I put a dummy thermostat in the break room so that people could fiddle with it to their heart's content. It cut way down on the complaints.

Those hand prints gave me a happy tear.

I'm a 250 lb male farmer/ DYI guy and I'm like you Leg Arms, I'm a softy when it comes to kids!! I got teary eyed when you showed the last part of kids hands in cement!! Love your hard work and passion to do it yourself. God 1st and everything else comes with blessings!!!

Euer Haus ist schön geworden, gute Arbeit. Für mich ist die Installation der Heizung sehr interessant. Das ganze ähnelt ein Stückweit der Installation aus Deutschland in den 90er Jahren, mit den Verteilern für Warm- und Kaltwasser. Durch die verschiedenen Bauweisen der Häuser und unterschiedlichen Vorschriften, sind die Voraussetzungen natürlich auch anders als bei uns. Ich bedanke mich für den Einblick in euren Hausbau und hoffe das ihr noch lange Freude an eurem Haus haben werdet. Grüße aus Deutschland.

I would to say thank you Scott and family for the red and green lights showing support for our military and fire. God bless.

So many valves for the kids to play with while pretending they are astronauts! 😜

Would hate to see Leg Arms brain hooked to a computer. Don't think the computer could keep up with him. Awesome video 🚜🚜🚜

We redid our well, water heater and water conditioner this past year. We went with a tankless water heater since we already had a gas water heater it will replace. That old tank heater was 40 years old !!!! When we replaced the water conditioner, we also added a water filter. We have really hard water and there is a "smell" to our water. I also upgraded our sump pump that included a battery backup. It was not cheap to do all this, but now we should be set for 20 years (at least).

As a retired HVAC service tech / service manager for twenty years you could go to work for any company very nice job very organized and that make it easy to work on you should be very proud of your job you did Happy New Year wishing you and your whole family and for a great growing season God Bless you 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏

My manifold for floor heat looks like a ‘steam punk’ dream…every time I look at it I want to get a can of brasso and polish it!

You amaze me with your talents. It's amazing the different talents and skills we pick up over our lives. Especially since you use yours to be as self-sufficient as possible for your family.

Brings back great memories of when my own kids were munchkins. “Look with your eyes, keep your hands at your sides”

You did a segment a while ago explaining that you were dyslexic. Well it certainly didn’t diminish your talent. For a farmer, or any profession other than those that are trained and apprenticed to do plumbing and hvac, you are amazing

Lol!!! 15-20 years before painting garage? Yup, sounds about right!! Always something else hasa higher priority. Came home from a work trip and wife had painted the garage. It was nice! You boys are doing great jobs on your homes!! Congratulations!! Well deserved!!

Brother Scott 1:27 you get some snow how about you install heat in the slabs outside and walkways? You would never need to shovel anything if you think about it right now while you have the opportunity. God Bless you I hope it’s at least been considered. 😏❤️🖖🏼🇺🇸

HAPPY NEW YEAR! God Bless✝

One word Bruh. Trees!

May Our Creator bless your new homes, you and your brothers, with warm blessings and long useful lives.

I work at WVU in Morgantown West Virginia the university is all steam heat and they use only glycolic it works great they have 3 inch lines in the basement of the Coliseum where basketball gymnastics wrestling and volleyball events with concerts we have no problems whatsoever.

Scott: You want to be sure to keep the Glycol away from your pets. it's sweet smelling and will attract them. If they drink it, it will kill them. Glad you cut it to a 50/50 mix, pure Glycol is very inefficient. Beautiful house!

It’s funny how yous pray for rain we literally cry for the sun in Northern Ireland 🤦🏼‍♂️🤣

dude, that heating system is fricken cool! Fortunately between so Cailf, and Baja, we dont need that! Oh lord though, the horror stories with PEX and rodents in mexico..

FANTASTIC!!! THANKS SO MUCH!!!🙏🙏

When I was stationed in Alaska, the temp was -60 degrees. The floor heat, and only heat, in the hanger, which also heated the offices, failed. We brought in some gas powered heaters to keep the building from freezing. Base safety was concerned about carbon monoxide poisoning, and told us to shut off the heaters. We gave safety two choices. One, keep the heaters running and monitor the carbon monoxide, or two, shut down the heaters, let the building freeze, and the frozen pipes would be repaired in the spring. They left, and never came back.

"bleeding the air" outta the system, but you knew that Leg Arms ,just too much going on to remember it lol,great job congrats on the new place !

I am impressed with how much you do yourself and while farming. Just the in floor heat is a lot of work let alone all the house build stuff. Great job and enjoy the new space! -Matt

Nice going Scott. You follow my own mantra for our farm...try to always have a backup plan for when things go wrong...however unlikely.

I loved when your son looked dead into the camera to see all the people watching. It reminded me of an old TV show in the Pacific Northwest called JP Patches. JP used to look into the camera and talk to us Patches Pals. Thanks for sharing your journey. I appreciate the delicate balance of content and privacy could be difficult.

Painting your garage floors with sealer would be a good idea too.

My first house, the wife and I slept on a hide-and-bed couch the first time. We snuck in before it was finished. :) (Didn’t sleep that well either. Lol) Glad for your family!!

make sure that the door to your plant room is a minimum 30 to 60 minute fire door, to give you some piece of mind. also use fire resistant plasterboard on the ceiling. just be safe

I think you need a shirts that say "Welkerized". It is a farmer thing. We can't help ourselves.

in floor concrete normal used PEX tube, safe and not leak, all north europe used normal water floor heating tube system, best heat system what has made, collect lot heat in to floor concrete mass, and heat all floor good and small energy only need, if closed heating keep house warm very long time, normal ALL north europe and need use more at canada, could winter areas, economy and not problem ewer.

Scott keep an eye on the fluid quality and metal parts for corrosion, in the PC market we find using copper with aluminum , steel or other dissimilar metals will cause what's known as bi-metal electrolysis, this starts slow but as one metal begins to dissolve into the cooling fluid it will speed up causing deposits to form and clog the system. Granted anti-freeze has anti-corrosion properties those chemicals merely slow the process. So like any cooling system and home HVAC units it's a good idea to do a scheduled flush

The pre made zoning panels from Menards made my install way easier. Kudos to you, nice work.

Love watching the house videos. The Lord has truly blessed your entire family!

At 12:45 you said you left the top ones closed but, I am 100% sure you can’t close them completely. They are flow meters. I am at the same stage as you, with my floor heating, trying to find leaks. Great job. My system is little simpler, as I’m relying more on controller.

You're going to love the in floor 🥵

God Bless you too. All ya'll

SWEET!!! God Bless!

Those hand prints will bring memories and a wet eye for a lifetime ❤️

Very happy for all of you im a believer hard work pays off, we were fortunate enough to do the same thing in 2009, time flies now my oldest is 20 youngest is 10. Enjoy it all

Happy New Year Welker Farms! May the Lord continue to bless you and your whole family, also with maybe a bit more rain. Let's fill the bins for 2024! I'm very happy to see you are getting closer to the finishing touches stage on the house. Take care and God bless!

You have a beautiful family and now a beautiful home for them. Bless you all.

Oh my looking at weather there today 1/12 , it’s so extremely cold. Good test of your heat!!!! Y’all stay safe and warm! Bad in Texas too but not as bad as there!

Thats a smart move! We came back from vacation this week and found a house cold as ice! But like a miracle no lines where broken thoo several of them had frosen... 🙏 But if we hade come home one day later i dont want to think about what could have happend.. 😳🙈

Aluminum foil is ALOT faster then wrapping all that in newspaper & tape! I’m so happy your family is settled into your new home. Nick’s family is next. It’s costs more for the labor to put those in floor heating & tankless heaters in then the system costs. Good thing you Welkers have a lot of skills so you can DIY.

You have a beautiful house and family. May God richly bless you in 2024!

I have Watched you guys for a few years and i must say you are really Talented Lads , there is not much you can not handle !! Cheers

I used to live in the middle 60s south of you what they called the wheat Center of Montana. Love your content in your videos bless you all.

Love the hand prints! You all are special people, love watching your lives. Thanks for sharing with us.

I love that you did you own everything to keep price down. I did my own heater through a A coil in old furnace and infloor heat in a new shop 1984. I live where firewood as very easy to get . Drive out and fill a 8 ft box in a couple hrs. . I built an out side wood burner . It heated the water pump for house and and another shop. It was a crazy system. Hot water tank had a copper pipe with enter pipe that flowed through 3 inch pipe. Crazy plumbing. Best part. I had 3 temperature gauges. In a closet. Water temp outlet at wood burner. Water temp return from shop. Water temp at entering house. There was no internet or google. I had many reworks of system. Love how nice and clean your system is. I had a lot of valves in my system everything build so I could by pass problem s. Same as yours. You have a lot more

The air vent is automatic. It is supposed to be constantly removing air even after you have the system purged. It can't vent the air if you have the cap on tightly

You have done an awesome job feller. Congratulations 👍👍

Self accomplishment is the best kind

Has your little man beside you asked, "dad how did the people get inside the camera" yet lol.. it is interesting to see how the under floor heating works, it's not that common in Australia and we don't get the cold weather like you do in your part of the world.

Pure glycol? If so, why not cut it with water?

U should if heated the drive way as well

I have kid prints from when this house was built. Ten years ago the original family came by and saw the prints. The little girls were grown.

We did footprints in 1992. Still there and brings back memories.

A nice house you got. Hard working people like you deserve a god house. I hope you get a good year. God bless the Welker famely

nice work. i hope the gycol mix has a corrosion inhibitor it to prevent the galvanic corrosion between the copper and stainless parts. we had an issue with that in the UK where stainless steel was cheaper than copper so systems developed leaks at a later date due to the galvanic reaction.

👌🏻👌🏻AWESOME HOMESTEAD!!!! 😏😏THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO. 😍😍😍😍😍🙏

I maybe repeating what has done run through your brain,number every valve ,make a detailed systematic of the whole system.What farmers can accomplish is amazing,I watch every of you’all s videos

we did the same with my kids when we built our home. The only thing I am missing is Mr. Mom reference, you putting in 220, 220 or 221, whatever it takes, Fun watching you and your brothers homes coming to shape, Congrats to your families. Hard work pays off!

If the radiant tubes are within 10% length of each other, you shouldn't need to balance them. While pumping fluid in, never let it suck air in or you'll have to keep pumping until the air is out. Don't see one, but you might want a condensate neutralized before the sump pit. Condensate is acidic and may corrode the pump . a couple mechanics in training there. Good luck

Love how you did the plumbing for your heat! You can never have to many shut off valves.

I had a buddy that was a body and paint man for heavy equipment. He would wrap items in foil too.

Beautiful kids and dog

That is one thought out boiler room and looks like a professional did the job.

You are so amazing as a practical engineer considering you have no training you are a legend.

well done sir may you spend many happy years in the house that you helped build with the contractors and your family

I would have thought there would have been snow.

nice home

I love your setup. I built a 7500 square foot home outside Seattle about 20+ years ago and since the temp rarely drops below 35 degrees and I had a 6 inch slab in the basement I tied the system to my potable water supply. I didn't need to use antifreeze, but I did need to put in backflow preventers though. I also put temperature gauges on every return so I could fine tune each run. I had 7 zones and each zone had up to 4 runs to acommodate different rooms in the basement. I found that with heat rising as it does, I did not need to run the heating radiator in the heat pump system very much. I was also able to use the same boiler for the radiant heat and the heat exchanger in the heat pump. I also put the cold air return in the highest point in the house which was my office ceiling on the 2nd floor which was about 14 feet above the actual floor. I did also install a seperate air conditioner (a mini-split) just for my office. For hot water, I had several Takagi tankless heaters located throughout the house near bathrooms, the kitchen, etc. The back wall was 92 feet long so if I had not done that the furthest bathroom would have taken too long to receive hot water. I have the same reservations about PEX so everything I did that was exposed was in copper with sweated joints. I did cheat and used 3/4 inch copper flex to connect the Takagi tanlkess heaters and the boiler for easy changeout. All in all I love your system and wish some of the stuff was available 20 years ago.

Thanks for another great video. It was very interesting. Scott, you did great on this video. Explaining all of your house systems was most interesting. Your floor heating system is really interesting and is using basic technology to heat your new home. Appreciate you explaining the system and how it works. Lots of valves and controls to manage and get set the way you want them. You have done a great job on installing all of this and engineering the system. Very good job Scott. Believe you have it mastered. My compliments to you for what you have accomplished. Nice!!!!!!!! Getting your garage done will be good and the concrete approach’s completed. Can put your vehicles away then. Yea!!!!!!!! Your work has been outstanding. Hang in there Scott. Thanks for sharing with us. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.

Excellent job on the plumbing Scott. Well thought out. Very smart leavint temp control in mechanical room.

Congratulations Scott! House looks great. All the ye a rs of thr tough work, early mornings, late nights, stress. All paid off. Beautiful Family and Beatiful House. Congratulations

God bless you and your family in 2024 🙏 You deserve it!

Could use windshield washer fluid. Much cheaper and works very well plus better heat transfer.

I had the pleasure of experiencing radiant heat about 20 years ago visiting a friend in Ohio, it was very impressive. I think all your research and hard work will pay off.

Love the heating system. When I built mine I had 6 zones. I had a pump on every zone. I'm a pipefitter so yes it was all copper. Fun times. You gotta wear a mask or I always put a t-shirt to cover my face.

Happy New Year

Good job, . I can recommend to You install few extra part to keep the system always full in glycol. You can use Your small pump, some tank for glycol, then one way check valve, electrical pressure sensor with regulator built in , electrical relay , and connect all together. After that You will have always study pressure of glycol and lower maintenance = more time for family .

Good thing is you can be rough as guts and Rangi it up cause it's your own home.

That’s the best diy install I’ve seen..The only thing that worries me is schedule 40 for flue pipe exhausts and using dwv fittings instead of pvc pressure fittings… flues need to meet local codes if you have them… or be done in the safest way possible. Also be very careful near ethylene glycol vs propylene glycol.

I just noticed you went with almost the same colors on the outside of your house as I fid with mine. My builder told me it would be too dark and wouldn't look good. The day I closed, he said it was the best-looking house in the neighborhood.

The two Mini Me’s are chip off the old block. Beautiful home.

Happy new year in your beautiful home with your beautiful family.

Scott you my friend are AMAZING and the pluming job you made is BRILLIANT WOW......Super glad to see y'all moved in your AWESOME house.....l really glad for y'all and GOD BESS 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 ✝ 👍 Old F-4 2 Shoe🇺🇸

50/50 water glycol has a lower freeze point than pure glycol and has better heat transfer than just water.

Very nice work and thanks for the house update Legarms.

Very nice video and thank you sharing enjoy your house for years and thank you for sharing 😊

It’s a Beautiful house 😊

Awesome video

Those little hand prints are so amazing👍👍👍

Looking good buddy there’s definitely a lot of stuff going on in that room 😂 but hats off to you you done most of that yourself which is great