Plug and Play Radiant Floor Heating System - BEST ON THE MARKET

the build show is on the road today we are in beautiful new england it is a crisp fall day but the winter will come and this house behind me a whole house remodel on a 1970s house perfect candidate to go to radiant in-floor heating now my buddy steve basic is the architect on this project and he worked with warmboard to design an impressive system the entire house is basically getting several zones of warm floors that are going to radiate and heat these occupants from the floor on up today's build show we're going to give you all the 4-1-1 on this system today's build show is sponsored by warm board let's get going i feel like i'm channeling my inner this old house let's go take a look at this remodel now we're in the trim stage there he is hey steve what's up buddy how you doing man doing great man give us a tour man look at these beautiful welcome to andover yeah we got a lot of exciting stuff here to see and i know you want to talk about warm board we got some of the flooring going down but on the back side of the house we haven't gotten it all covered yet so we can go back there and we can talk about the install and uh so we've got uh what are these floors going on in this five inch white oak true solid white true solid white oak going right over the top it gets glued and stapled down oh man you got a ton of work going on here oh now we can see a little bit of water see a little bit there that's the bathroom jack and jill bathroom happening there okay but i think in this back room here he's actually installing the hardwood floor very nice so look at this this is beautiful man i love a good white oak floor okay so this is what we're talking about this is the radiant heating for the house and my assumption is these black tubes are going to have hot water flowing through them right they have they have hot water going through now warm board has two systems they have their remodeling system and then they have their structural subfloor system because this one is this this is the our system this is the remodeling system because we had a structural subfloor okay so it's only uh it's just under three quarters and it has that router uh groove in there that these half inch lines just pop in we uh you can get those half inch lines i believe you can get them in rolls of 500 and a thousand feet but in this particular house we had a full design warm board is exceptional at uh the in the design and planning stage we can look at some of their drawings but they limit it to about 300 feet because at some point you can imagine when you charge these lines and you put the water through well they're losing heat so at some point you've pretty much lost the amount of heat that's working in your favor and you have to go back and get research so they limit those loops to 300 feet they're a solid loop there's no splicing everything is basically a home run that goes back to a manifold manifold we'll go check that out because you won't believe the plumbers down there they're amazing craftsmen and uh we have seven zones in the house but every zone is multiple loops so we have about 25 26 loops in the house just under a mile of tubing wow in this house steve what is this green facer that we're seeing here so that's a full aluminum facer it goes down into each of the grooves and so what it basically does is we get a bunch of heat here but it has the ability to spread that heat aluminum conducts the heat really quickly really evenly really well so you can see here so that we have this basically floor of aluminum that is actually spreading the heat and then that hardwood floor touches the hardwood floor touches it the floors which is then warming your feet you got warm pizzies all winter long man and it's cool the other nice thing about this is we have a good example here but you can see here the stuff's pretty easily adaptable you know you want to come into a closet put a loop in they actually have templates they send out the router bit everything comes with the install you don't have to go and you don't have to purchase this has been modified it's been modified right to basically work inside by the builder they just plug in the router bit that they were given into their router there's templates that are provided you you nail them down the template is right there and it looks really easy for the hardwood guy now he's gluing it and uh stapling it because it's a wider floor gluing it and stapling it we had to wait actually the hardwood we've been ready here for probably about six weeks we had to wait for the hardwood floor because we needed the moisture content to go down august in new england everything's taken on moisture so we had to get that down it's a five inch white oak so the the flooring association says we need to glue it and staple it which is what we're doing here so it should be a good system and so underneath us everywhere there's hardwood steve we've got these radiant floors underneath them and these are different zones meaning you can control some of these rooms independently yeah they're different zones and there's different loops so like this corner of the house i believe is um zone five and there's actually five different loops in zone five got it and here you can see this is where they're diving down right oh okay so now this loop is heading back to the yeah where they're heading back or coming these are feeds so these are this is you can see zone six it's 2.7 it's coming up and feeding the room and then it drops back down got it and so we've got a big system underneath us so that's headed down yeah those will go back to the manifold but uh so would you start with uh uh some kind of three-quarter subfloor that was here originally on this house yeah this is a remodel we have three editions so this is actually three quarter inch advantech the main house had one by floors you know that vintage um floor shaving decking that that was so this goes right over top you're putting this everywhere on the first floor and i'm assuming the carpenter is installing that and then the plumber's coming in and dropping his tubing in and following that plan let's go down to the basement so we can see a little bit more of that let's go see the mechanicals downstairs we'll meet y'all in the basement man this is some pretty stuff now is this in all these pumps feeding our radiation not all of it we have a we have almost a 2400 square foot basement here so and it had an existing slab remember this is a remodel so we have a bunch of baseboard in here okay so a lot of this is running the baseboard and then we're running it over now and what is this big orange box yeah so the big orange box now one of the beauties of warm board is they have their complete heat system so they have their own boiler everything set up for the system now in this particular house again because it's a remodel the homeowner had this existing beastman boiler it's only about 10 years old he didn't really want to get rid of it so warmboard said no problem we'll modify our system and we'll work with your existing system and we'll give you a whole new plan based on using that yeah because you've got a beautiful very expensive 20 plus year old wiesman boiler that still has a decade or two or three of life in it so why get rid of that right and one of the problems in new england is in some of these older communities we don't have gas in the street even so this is an oil-fired boiler so we don't really have isn't it that's our oil tank so we don't have 300 or so gallons of oil so he was he was buying about a tank a month and i'm guessing that it's going to be a tank for every quarter wow you know so the place is i'm guessing this is the heat of this or the heart of the system this is the heart this is where everything gets pumped this is where everything happens look at all those pipes coming in so these are all those you know 300 foot or less lines that come in you can see the guys here they have it all labeled for us so we have one zones one and two two two two right and this is a home run system i'm assuming right so this pipe that starts here is going up to the floor and then returning right here is that yes and it's one complete pipe there's no splices and it's limited to that 300 foot mark and this viega valve right here this probably some kind of solenoid valve that's all labeled zone one is tied to a thermostat upstairs probably one right so when they give you some more heat it's going to open up these three for zone one and that's going to heat that particular bedroom or area or that area a series of bedrooms or whatever and when you look at the plan actually you know look at that beautiful layout we have it here did you produce this documentary no i give them the background and then they produce it but for example you can see the front of the house here these three bedrooms because they're the same orientation these are all zone five so they're all on that same same temperature same temperature but you can see it's you know 3.6 3.5 so there's all the different uh zones that are within that are different loops and sizes all have one thermostat they're basically one temperature exactly and they're you know based on orientation and and they figured out what the length of pipe now one of the things they had they had it coming back to a couple closets i nixed that in the beginning i said we don't want any of this manifold stuff upstairs i want a complete system downstairs so that's where we are check this out they're even showing you the length of the loop 160 feet for zone 1 195 for the second part of zone one number three 200. so you know that as you look at these zones they've they've basically engineered all this right okay so then all these pi these look like eight port manifolds you've got eight 16 24. each one of these is going to have a separate zone for the house and as i said it's it's a loop back and that's probably your one pump that's pumping everything that's the primary pump that sends everything into the manifolds and pushes it along the way the mixing valve is here it takes the supply s for supply that's coming in from the boiler which is right here and it takes a little bit of the return and mixes it because that returned water it might go out at you know i don't know 90 100 degrees and it comes back at 80 or 75 so we use some of that energy that we previously heated we can't use it to heat a room but we can use it to temper the temperature in the mixing valve man look how pretty the plumber did too i mean this is something yeah you gotta check out the backstage it'll be hard to see you back here but the if if you gotta shine your flashlight on it because i mean it is just when a plumber takes the time to look how pretty that is back there y'all i mean the plumber just really did a nice job back there these guys were every pipe is laid out he's got all his supports on there just beautiful work steve wrap us up man tell us in your opinion how do the costs compare to just forced air heats what's it like to live with is it worth it some of those kinds of things you know it's one of those things where and it's it's really interesting because i met the the two clients the very first meeting we talked about you know things that they wanted bruce the husband i have to have radiant floors he didn't even care if we put a roof on the house windows in the wall he wanted a radiant floor he wants to wake up every day and he wants to walk on a warm floor so it's one of those things where does it cost more yeah but good things cost money you hear me say that all the time and the infrastructure's here too what i like about this is you know 50 maybe 100 years from now this system can still be going we'll probably have to change our boiler out maybe these solenoid valves will have to get changed but it's all replaceable yeah this isn't this isn't going anywhere for 100 years and the other thing is there's nothing to get dirty there's nothing to make noise there's no indoor air quality issues it's just a super comfortable very healthy way to heat up guys if you don't know steve basics steve is on our buildshownetwork.com every friday he's publishing videos from jobs like this this is one that he's designed that he's been super involved with so as you look around and see what's going on here steve's probably got a video on it super smart architect i've learned so much from steve go to the link in the description and sign up for the newsletter and go check out steve's work on buildshownetwork.com also steve and i are going to make another video today on a few other aspects of this really interesting remodel so come back for another episode and lastly follow steve on instagram i'll put a link for his instagram feed in the description below if you're not currently a subscriber subscribe below new content every tuesday and every friday big thanks to warmboard for sponsoring today's video super impressive system i gotta say they've got it figured out i'll have a link below to warmboard if you're interested in learning more from those guys go to that link and check them out guys follow me on twitter instagram otherwise we'll see you next time on the build show [Music] you

Channel: Matt Risinger

Views: 554,127

Keywords: Matt Risinger, Build Show Network, The Build Show, Build

Id: qWvoYMf5iC4

Length: 13min 15sec (795 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 13 2020