ASK This Old House | Rot Repair, Heat Pumps (S20 E13) FULL EPISODE

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@Pixel-tl6fo 6 ай бұрын

I just was reading about hydronic heat pumps because I wanted an all inclusive option. Thanks for covering them - always great hearing what Ross has to say!

@alexanderlakey8483 6 ай бұрын

We have an air to water heat pump in the UK, doing DHW and heating, via radiators. It saves us 25% over the traditional gas boiler we used to have. We added 10kW solar in March and now we are using 20-25% of the total electricity from the grid that we used to, and on sunny days are exporting surplus electricity raising credit to pay for our winter bills when the system will need more energy to run the heat pump. It's been a massive game changer.. our house has never been more comfortable, and is really good for the environment. We now only pay a couple of pence (cents) per day for gas, which is only used for some stovetop cooking.

@__m__e__ 6 ай бұрын

Takes huge whiff of wood hardener 😂😂

@saulgoodman2018 6 ай бұрын

I do that too, when I open something up.

@ddogg14 5 ай бұрын

tempting, but not a good idea with stuff like this. Waft, people, waft!

@toin9898 6 ай бұрын

I love love love my air source heat pump. It works completely independently until it hits about -12ºC (10ºF), after that point it needs a little bit of help. That works out to needing the backup heat (resistive electric) for only about 100 hours over the course of an entire year, in Canada. The huge bonus is my house is nice and frosty all summer long.

@dentmastersofnymichael3316 6 ай бұрын

I work on the railroad and we use a product called spikefast and it is a 2 part epoxy that is fairly thin and fills voids in the railroad ties. Sets up in minutes and is very durable and can be sanded and drilled. Sticks to anything and needs very little prep

@larryjphotosjanssen8532 6 ай бұрын

Tommy what works great when you need to shape the filler and it may be vertical use parchment paper on the outside to form it. The filler sticks to the parchment paper before hardening but once it hardens the parchment paper peals right off. Thank you for your many years of helpful advice! Larry from Little Chute Wisconsin.

@jcchan08 6 ай бұрын

I’ve been watching TOH for a couple of years and never knew Ross is Richard’s son

@__m__e__ 6 ай бұрын

Bondo for concave repairs, liquid wood and wood epox for convex repairs. One part filler for nail holes and nothing more.

@spencer2365 6 ай бұрын

Anyone know how hot the water/glycol mix is coming into the house? Has to be pretty hot if it’s going to heat and domestic. Or does the basement unit also heat?

@henryostman5740 6 ай бұрын

In cold and dark upstate NY, I doubt if solar will be much help in the long and cold winters, even if the panels are not under two feet of snow.

@toin9898 6 ай бұрын

The idea is not to generate solar power for all of your needs year-round, it's to take advantage of the summer sun to cut your power bills to practically nothing during that time and then use those savings to cover the winter bills.

@jasonsgroovemachine 6 ай бұрын

I don't always watch TOH videos, but if it's Mark I do. I think it's because of all the things people do on TOH, masonry is something I do the least of.

@timmersoft 6 ай бұрын

Bondo, just call it Bondo lol

@luckybestwash 6 ай бұрын

"We want to be sure the unit stays above the snow" uh in upstate NY that entire box will be covered in snow

@saulgoodman2018 6 ай бұрын

Geo thermal, air to water heat pump, you'll never get your money back. It may save like 2k a year. But they cost 10's of thousands to install.

@johnroberts2444 6 ай бұрын

Hi TOH ,me & my twin sister turned 58 years old today !!!!! 😊

@johnroberts2444 6 ай бұрын

@Navy1977 Thanks my friend, I really appreciate that ! 😉🙏

@MH-qq3kj 6 ай бұрын

In AZ the heat pumps are fantastic!

@johnroberts2444 6 ай бұрын

@Navy1977 I hear ya there my friend! 😂😜🤟

@1976Datsun 6 ай бұрын

8:54 Those are goofy instructions but they are actually what Bondo says. Very weird. Inaccurate. They should just tell you what the ratio of the two should be. Bizarre. From the Bondo site - "For a 3-inch diameter puddle of filler, squeeze out a 3” long strip of hardener. ". They don't even say how thick the "puddle" should be. No way to be as exact as Tommy implies it should be. Less and more don't really mean anything.

@howtodoitdude1662 6 ай бұрын

Dark pink is ideal for Bondo.

@johnhawkinson 6 ай бұрын

No, there are multiple sets of 3M Bondo instructions, but several of them DO say 3" diameter, 1/2" thick. A real problem is that Tommy was wrong to say you can just use a smaller circle. A 2" circle is 44% of the area of a 3" circle, but a 2" line of hardener is 66% of the length of a 3" line of hardener. So you mess up the ratio if you use a 2" circle with a strip of hardener across the diameter. A bigger problem is that Tommy suggested hours, but properly mixed Bondo sets up in ten minutes. You have to really use it up quickly and only mix what you need.

@1976Datsun 6 ай бұрын

@@johnhawkinson Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure what the "No" at the beginning is about though. No, they're not goofy? No, they are accuarate? No...what? I quoted the puddle instructions from the actual Bondo Wood Filler instructions in the link that TOH put in the "More" area.

@johnhawkinson 6 ай бұрын

@@1976Datsun The "No" was "No, they are not inaccurate, they are accurate." But I agree they are weird and should give the ratio. If you follow the link in the More section to the Amazon listing and zoom in on the 2nd image of the can, item 3 under directions says: "Remove a 3-inch diameter circle, 1/2 inch thick of Bondo…". My memory is there are some instructions that don't specify the thickness, but there are some that do (hence my reference to multiple sets of instructions).

@1976Datsun 6 ай бұрын

@@johnhawkinson I quoted directly frm the link that you told me to go to, there is no thickness specified. Click through, scroll down, click on the Bondo Wood Filler link. No need for memory it's right there on the page. Since the instructions don't specify the thickness of the puddle, they are inherently inaccurate. And imprecise. Results will vary widely between different people. Edit - misread your first sentence. Thanks for the explanation.

@shanew7361 6 ай бұрын

If you have an extra $50k+ sure ill take a geothermal unit or heat pump set up like in the video 😂 most people don't.

@ramdizzle9133 6 ай бұрын

It used to be a show that was about fixing and saving. Now it's just about the most expensive stuff around.

@joeschmo5710 6 ай бұрын

Exactly. They disregard the ppl that raised them. They cater to rich ppl

@jcchan08 6 ай бұрын

You are correct however places like New York offers huge incentives to do ground source air to water heat pumps. Air to air makes zero sense for a place like New York. It’s way too cold in the winter where the COP is close to 1.0 (similar to electric resistant heating)

@jo_nathan_nation6544 6 ай бұрын

Dude they are just showing options. Chill.

@mthelm85 6 ай бұрын

My first thought when they didn't even throw out a ballpark range was that it must be way too expensive to make sense