We worked on this project off and on throughout the last 8 months as it progressed. One of the topics of discussion that came up with the owner was how to do the underground from the Garn.......literally in the barn, to the house which was over 250' away. The underground would have been directly under the main traffic lane on the farm for almost 3/4 of it's length, in fact, it IS under the main traffic area but in a much different manner than normally encountered.
I swear that this guy is one of the following:
A. one of the most resourceful people I have ever met
B. A true denizen of E-Bay and Craigs List
C. A guy who should be on that hoarders show on TV..........
I'm inclined to go with A and B
He found 250' of 4' diameter steel culvert (have no idea what he paid for it) dug a trench from the barn to the house, knocked a hole in his basement wall on one end and stubbed it into the mechanical room on the other. They ran a double 1" pex line to the house and it seems to do OK even though we measured flow at less than 4gpm. Heat and hot water for a family of 8 (if I counted the kids right) They used standard 1/2" wall foam on the pex lines and wrapped the whole bundle with about 8-9 layers of 1/4" closed cell blanket type stuff. Seems to do just fine.
This is the job I was referring to a couple months ago that had all the radiant floor on it. I'm still having doubts that a single 2000 will keep up with it when he turns on the outdoor holding area. (4,500 sq ft outdoors at probably 60btu's/sq ft minimum) Another 5000 sq ft is heated inside but being a dairy barn, heated means about 35-40* in all areas except the office and break room/bathrooms.
Just goes to show what you can do when you think outside the box.
Pictures are from back in January when we only had part of the place up and running. Stuff was "field engineered" together all over the place.
I swear that this guy is one of the following:
A. one of the most resourceful people I have ever met
B. A true denizen of E-Bay and Craigs List
C. A guy who should be on that hoarders show on TV..........
I'm inclined to go with A and B
He found 250' of 4' diameter steel culvert (have no idea what he paid for it) dug a trench from the barn to the house, knocked a hole in his basement wall on one end and stubbed it into the mechanical room on the other. They ran a double 1" pex line to the house and it seems to do OK even though we measured flow at less than 4gpm. Heat and hot water for a family of 8 (if I counted the kids right) They used standard 1/2" wall foam on the pex lines and wrapped the whole bundle with about 8-9 layers of 1/4" closed cell blanket type stuff. Seems to do just fine.
This is the job I was referring to a couple months ago that had all the radiant floor on it. I'm still having doubts that a single 2000 will keep up with it when he turns on the outdoor holding area. (4,500 sq ft outdoors at probably 60btu's/sq ft minimum) Another 5000 sq ft is heated inside but being a dairy barn, heated means about 35-40* in all areas except the office and break room/bathrooms.
Just goes to show what you can do when you think outside the box.
Pictures are from back in January when we only had part of the place up and running. Stuff was "field engineered" together all over the place.
