What is going on here? Walked through an estate sale and saw this in the utility room. It was a recently built, 3300 sf house.
In-floor radiant heating. Those pipes distribute heat via hot water that is pumped though them. This can be a more efficient way to heat your home than traditional forced-air, but is best used in combination with other HVAC systems. You see these systems in expensive, large houses where climate control is more involved than a standard size house.
That was my guess. Everything in that house was over the top
How much was asking?
I bought a used house that required major renovations including a complete replacement of the floor and all communications. I chose concrete with granite tiles for the new floor. I placed a layer of insulation under the concrete and laid out PE-RT pipes inside the concrete. The total cost of this heating system, together with the distribution unit in the boiler room, was cheaper than if I had purchased pipes and radiators. The advantage is that there are no places for dust to accumulate inside the radiators, uniform heating of the air in the house, heated floors, lower temperatures in the heating system and therefore energy savings. So it's cheaper, but more difficult to install
Game of Thrones.
Plumbers Edition.
I’m just spit balling but what about “Game of Runs”?
I'm not disliking it.
Dare I say Game of Zones?
Touché
It’s hydronic heating, but it looks like a commercial set up, the bottom pipes are for your slab. Heating the ones at the top looks like to be for your radiator heaters.
Under floor heating, each manifold has a flow and return, they’re designed to extract as much heat as possible, very efficient and cost effective to run
Anxiety
A PEX nightmare
Better hope it lasts 100 years.
Somebody who takes no pride in their work, or doesn’t know how to make something be functional and look nice.
I’ve seen way way worse
Radiant heating. Call HVAC local guy. Specific hydronics. Could be ground source. Not plumbing.
Plumbers do radiant too 😁
There's no radiant heating in my area, I was curious couldn't you just hook up one of these systems to a water heater? And how does the thermostat work?
The thermostat works the same. No, you can not use that for hot water because it gets winterized, and if it doesn't, it just wouldn't be efficient because it's only hot when you want to warm the house.
Yes, is smaller applications the BTU’s from a water heater is sufficient, the main problem is that you want the floor heating water to be its own closed system. There are typically iron pumps and components involved, so the water gets pretty disgusting. That and during the summer when heat is not being used, the water sits stagnant in the pipes and bacteria can grow. There are ways to make it working using timers, stainless pumps, or heat exchangers. In an application like this the house probably has a boiler. And the thermostat will be what turns on the pumps and will make the boiler fire. As long as there is a call for heat, the system will circulate hot water through the floors
In floor heat, two temp system, 5 zones
Another Linus Tech Tips home video.
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That there son is a genuine cluster fuck
These systems look like a nightmare to service
It’s the lines for in floor heating and cooling
Poorly plumbed and lack of pride hydronic heating system
Manifold destiny.
They took a whole bunch of fucks, clustered them together, and used them to heat the house through the floor.
They call it a hack job around where I live
Fucking abortion...
The set up before the Borg queen arrives
That is in floor heat.