Well It's been bothering me for along time to think I was using elect. to keep my bed warm. So the last couple of days I've changed over to wood heat.
It was very simple to do. I took 1/2 pex and made two raps around the bed under the liner. It lays nicely on the outside at the bottem under the leak liner so it souldn't cause ware to bed liner. I drilled two holes at the corner at an angle so it wouldn't crimp the pex. I then drilled two holes in the floor which goes down into the basement right where my return lines go back to my tanks.
I had put in two valves in closely placed tee's in the return lines for this purpose when I had installed it. I put a zone valve in one and hooked and connected the pex. ( If you do this put in a bleed valve as it will make it easier to bleed). My elect heater control is 120v and I just unpluged the connecter to the heater from the control, made a plug to plug into it and ran that to a 24v transformer. That runs the zone valve.
I don't know how much I'll save but I know it had to cost to keep that waterbed at 85* and I hate to have my meter run. Since I run my boiler year round to heat my DHW and hottub I might as well heat my bed to.
leaddog
It was very simple to do. I took 1/2 pex and made two raps around the bed under the liner. It lays nicely on the outside at the bottem under the leak liner so it souldn't cause ware to bed liner. I drilled two holes at the corner at an angle so it wouldn't crimp the pex. I then drilled two holes in the floor which goes down into the basement right where my return lines go back to my tanks.
I had put in two valves in closely placed tee's in the return lines for this purpose when I had installed it. I put a zone valve in one and hooked and connected the pex. ( If you do this put in a bleed valve as it will make it easier to bleed). My elect heater control is 120v and I just unpluged the connecter to the heater from the control, made a plug to plug into it and ran that to a 24v transformer. That runs the zone valve.
I don't know how much I'll save but I know it had to cost to keep that waterbed at 85* and I hate to have my meter run. Since I run my boiler year round to heat my DHW and hottub I might as well heat my bed to.
leaddog