The industrious Tekkit base:
So in-floor is water pipes? I thought it was done by electrical wires. But if pipes are how we’d warm our driveway (if we had one; apartment scum here with a basement garage) then I guess pipes are good inside too.
Do we worry about earthquakes? Would we be better off with radiant in-ceiling heat instead for that?
My farfar was a cabinet maker, my dad was a woodworker, floor layer, tiler, etc, but I’m a nerd and have none of those artisanal skills. This is interesting as heck and it’s a connection to my vestigial roots.
There is also electrical wire floor heating it’s cheaper, water is more efficient though
hot water for heating is what you call radiators, which are pretty common around the world
Here in Germany we never really got earthquake and even the hardest we got in the last hundred years just rattled some roof tiles off. Also it’s very common in Europe to use floor heating (due to the lower temperatures you need to provide and such beeing more efficient with heat pump)in neuer buildings so mostly everyone does it
Nice until it fails.
Yeah everything is. Lasts 50+ years which, IDK if you’ve ever had a furnace replacement, but they’re not cheap and easy especially if it’s tucked somewhere weird.
50+ years? I have yet to see one last more than about 10 before needing to be replaced or fixed. Most often just shut off and go back to traditional heating. Our new-to-us home is about 25 years old and the previous owner said most of the in floor heating was already shot when they bought it 12 years ago.
10-15 until it leaks and destroys everything.
I mean I work since 10 year in this job and I never heard of any spontaneous leaking and well we never thrown a system out because of that
how long does it take to start warming up? That seems like a long loop, or is it multiple loops?
They are 17 individual loops it usually takes up to a day till the floor has its initial temperature after that temperature changes take not longer than 30mins
We have in floor heating and I love it.
Ask the installers to bleed it properly or you will have MANY restless nights.
I’m the installer lmao. We got a system with an high power pump cycles every loop multiple times and dumps it in an open container before we connect the heat pump
Thank you for actually doing your job!
What is the final fill liquid? Is there an anti bio/anti corrosion agent?
Just desalted water from our osmosis machine
Not worried about anything growing in there?
I mean it’s an “airless” closed loop with 95% clean h2o. The water may gets darker after time from bacteria dieing but there will probably never grow anything concerning
Awesome. Thank you for sharing!
So, dumping it into an open container is a way to remove bubbles from the line? You wait for the water to come out without bubbles, and that means the line is full? How do you connect the pump without introducing bubbles? Is it submerged in the open container? Then you pull the line down into the water as it’s running and connect it?
It’s an open container and a submittable pump (usually used for lifting ground water from 100m) that pumps it from the bottrem of the container into the loop and when it comes back from the loop it gets dumped on top of the water line, since the pump transport around 3500l/h we let a single loop with roughly 5-15l circulate for roughly 15mins before we switch to the next (English is my second language so please ignore the grammar mistakes)
Submersible pump, I think you mean. Good on you learning English, it’s hard.
Why the very dense section on the left (hallway?)?
They started on the far end and when they got to behind the camera, they realized how many lines they still had to run to that area and the amount of space in the hallway to feed that area didn’t line up with the spec for the spacing in the room. Instead of ripping out what they had done, they just increased the density.
Same thing as when you’re signing your name on a birthday card and the first few letters are huge, but the you’ve gotta shrink the rest to fit before you run out of paper.
The red lines are the spaces where the people that build the walls might drill, it’s that dense because behinde me in that picture there are 3 rooms with together 6 loops and in the middle left behind the wall is the manifold
Doesn’t this require extra distribution box back there to reduce density of pipes in the hallway?
The hallway itself doesn’t has a loop on it’s own so we heat it with the entrance pipes of the different rooms
I’d agree with you on it being a hallway. I’d also guess the red mark out is for a demising wall.
distribution maybe?
