Installing a low cost under floor radiant heat system in my house

[@BobCaseyAerial]

I know there was alotta work that went into this. Installing radiant heat system can get complicated but you made it look easy. Not to mention doing this for the viewers. Your camera angles are great also it must’ve been time consuming to do an edit for an hour and a half movie/video. My hats off to you Jesse. The world needs more like you. Self motivated and a Jack of all trades. You should have over a million subs the way I see it. So thanks man for everything you do to share your jobs and vids with us.

[@jmuller86]

thanks, I appreciate the good comments

[@rigormortispoo]

Agree 100% with you Bob. He also seems to be fearless and there appears to be nothing he won't take on. I'm 67 and can't believe how Jesse has managed to learn all these skills at such a young age.

[@MrLoudog7]

I couldn’t have said that better! Good job . I just found your channel and subscribed.

[@jimanderson4495]

Jesse…. First off, your uploads are NEVER too long for me. Secondly, I really like your narration. Telling us exactly what’s going on in detail. Thirdly, I’ve appreciate your craftsmanship. Thanks for your time producing these videos.

[@jmuller86]

Thank you

[@CranialAccess]

My parents bought a huge old farmhouse built in the 1850’s. Remember my Dad getting so frustrated trying to sweat copper pipes. No plastic or pex back in the early 70’s! Great job Jesse!

[@whattheschmidt]

I love sweating copper, it's all I did when I just redid the bathroom on my 1963 built home (had copper but the shower had to be completely redone). Copper is the longest lasting proven tech! Fun using heat to put it together imo.

[@denisewilson8367]

Learned to sweat pipes together at age 7 with Grandpa and I putting in our 1st indoor bathroom!

[@jdub229r]

Work of art Jessie. Good luck selling your existing home, can’t wait to see more of the new house build.

[@chrisE815]

Love watching you build, man! Always pick up tricks while listening to you narrate.

[@freetolook3727]

I find it amazing that when we go to sell our house, that's the time we do all the improvements that we have been putting off over the years.

[@joconnor3567]

So true

[@Arbh1]

😹😹

[@harveylong5878]

otherwise the next buyer starts clicking off $$ amt on the asking/selling price for outdated/inadequate systems

[@johnsilvernale6472]

@@harveylong5878 in this sellers market here (Montana) you just move to the next offer...

[@paulhammond7489]

Always nice to see some new skills and techniques and not be afraid to go out of the comfort zone. It's also great to see someone actually applying PTFE tape the correct way for a change, you'd not believe how many times I've seen that done wrong here on YT.

[@RustyNail5856]

very nice video. Jessie. Good luck selling your existing home, can’t wait to see more of the new house build.

[@jamescole1786]

Wow, great job & kinda complicated too! Glad you know how to install but also how to explain the controls...better practice your presentation for the next owner! Maybe you can make a map & list steps so new people can always be comfortable. Thx for showing us armchair viewers how it is done in your climate. Nice, clean job! Oh yes, good luck with your son the explorer..curiosity is good! Sounds like you are all over this issue. You are a good dad also! Very nice to see & hear responsible parenting. Love your videos. Be safe.🧑‍🔧

[@jonathankeith2547]

I noticed you ran the outlet of the storage tank straight up. I am not a plumber but in Australia, which is a much warmer climate than where you are, we usually run the hot side of a storage tank down 300mm then loop it back up to help prevent thermal siphoning of the stored heat out to atmosphere through the metal pipe

[@psullivan40]

Well that's because you're in the southern hemisphere, the bottom of the earth where everything is upside-down...I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. 😄

[@robertdominiczak6523]

Hi Jesse as you mentioned your new to this, it’s good practice to keep your electric controls away from potential water leaks, but you have not made any mistakes. Love your videos.

[@jeffntexas8920]

Thanks for taking the time to make a video. A diagram would sure make it easier to follow what you did.

[@daddybob6096]

You're a brave guy Jesse, taking on a project of this magnitude, i admire your determination Jesse, though this will pay off in the long run by heating that old house and encourage a sale. Well done. Bob NZ.

[@scottmetzger283]

Oxygen barrier pipe prevents oxygen diffusion into the system. This needed to prevent continuous corrosion to cast iron components. When we (wife and I) installed radiant heat into our house ecm pumps were brand new on the market. They are great for keeping a 20 degree C temperature drop across the system (source to load). You may want to verify you don't need a double check valve on the water feed (lots of states/municipalities require this). Most feeder valves are single check. Overall the installation looks great. Keep up the good work!

[@douglasmorton6121]

Impressive! I used to help my Dad doing HVAC, and I later did a lot of plumbing working for a GC. That said, your understanding of your particular system is amazing! I followed most of it, but wouldn't have wanted to delve into a project like that without assistance or direction. Well done Sir!

[@jmuller86]

thanks, i do have a little help from my friend Eric who does this kind of stuff for a living with geothermal

[@TravisMontesano]

thats awesome, thank you for sharing your hard work. I'm in a house built in 1893 what a pile of work it is too.

[@AW-Services]

Watching from North Devon UK🇬🇧 I love American plumbing, It's almost like old British ducted room heating. Very surprised you don't have wall mounted radiators. another great video Jesse. You've made Sunday enjoyable. Keep up the great work.

[@brianjohnston9822]

Some older home either had or may still have but most new homes have forced air heating. It is more convenient to install forced air especially since most modern homes have a full basements. With electricity being so affordable a lot of homes and apartments have electric baseboard heat. That is what I have in my place.

[@Guysm1l3y]

@@brianjohnston9822 A lot of cookie cutter homes have electric baseboard too in my area of the US. It's wayyyy cheaper as far as installation labor and who cares if the homeowners get stuck with crazy winter electric bills when you're slapping up 50 identical houses in a development. Forced air is so much nicer in my opinion because you get filtration and it's easy to add air conditioning inline with the same ducting. My home has natural gas hot water baseboard radiators and I had to resort to adding in mini-split AC units which is not ideal since you can't practically have a mini split head in every room. But the lowest quote to retrofit ducting in my moderate size house was $18,000.

[@jmuller86]

@@Guysm1l3y i could retrofit a house to use this system I am using and use an air to water heat pump. instead of trunk lines between floors, i would just use a few pex pipes that are insulated. open up one bay in the wall and put all of the second floor heating and cooling inside that bay. thats what i did with my house, just never got a cooler. you can buy a brand new 35k btu air to water unit for 4k and then just a bunch of fittings and pipes, and some labor could be half of the 18k quote you got. plus it would have radiant heat which would set it far apart from any central air system

[@brianjohnston9822]

@@Guysm1l3y I agree that forced air is the way to go. Canada has an abundance of electricity. The province of Quebec has one of the cheapest rates in the world. I could heat my cottage all year very cheaply. Natural gas is getting expensive, and many politicians are pushing us away from gas. Most new apartment buildings are steering away from central air primarily to allow tenants the ability to control their own heat. The limitations comes with the inability to have cold air in the summer.

[@carlyonbay45]

Your voice is so relaxing .

[@bridge297forseniors6]

Jesse, Fantastic video, thank you for taking the time to put it together.

[@bitsandpeace]

Congrats Jesse!!! Been watching your videos a long time. I knew you had what it takes. Now you're off ... Great Job 👍. You're awesome...you have fantastic videos and you deserve all the success that is coming your way. God bless you and your beautiful family!!!!

[@chrisbarr1359]

Very impressed with your knowledge and ingenuity building this heating system Jesse! It will also looks very impressive to any potential buyers!!

[@frankkirby5763]

Thanks Jessie looks good to me. Enjoyed the video. Best of luck to you. I like the final design of the radiant heat system.

[@davidstevens1522]

Where i live , codes would require all the wiring (high voltage) be in conduit. Lucky for you that saved you time and money. Cheers

[@TBPollock]

I just plumbed my mini house with PEX. Worked out great even though I'm an 80y/o DIY'er with no particular plumbing experience. IMPORTANT TIP! Do Not buy a cheap crimper, the kind with long handles that require muscle power. Buy a good one like Jesse was using so you don't have to be Arnold Swartzenagger to crimp, particularly in awkward places. Trust me on this!

[@jmuller86]

Yea this one handed one gets into alot of places where my regular 2 hander doesnt

[@denisewilson8367]

Buy the expander that fits on your drill and use pex rings for a no leak system. Never use shark bite crimps bcuz they are known to leak & illegal behind closed walls where I live, bcuz they leak.

[@joedominick7517]

Jesse, Great video thanks for showing us the secrets of radiant heat install

[@teddythomas281]

This is some of your finest work Jesse. I learned a lot. You did an excellent job.

[@ewanstewart8011]

First yeah all the way from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I see you are wearing your Sunday best a Holy tee shirt tada👍🏻

[@Boomhauer333]

Hooking it up for the future new owner. Good work Jesse! Most people wouldn't bother doing all that before selling.

[@outlawedblues]

Excellent video very informative. Only thing I would suggest is to keep the electronics on top away from drains. Only takes a little water to ruin a circuit board.

[@colin8532]

Excellent video, you did a very nice, clean install. Very impressive Jesse

[@TheNorthernmunky]

This is exactly how we do our central heating systems here in the U.K. they’re very efficient and take up less space than a ducted system. Great job Jesse

[@the2060ish]

Nice Jess I changed a light bulb this weekend. I hope your new owner has a degree in engineering.. You are very talented person👍👍

[@sylviaprudhomme5417]

Had no idea about how a system like that worked but you provided such good explanations it made sense. Dry good job

[@jdgibs3446]

Great video Jesse. Lots of details and pertinent information. I'm glad that you are knowledgeable and have associates that are involved in your job sites that are professionals. Looking each day as you continue to progress on your house. ☝️🙏🙌🎯

[@shanechis]

Well done Jesse! Good luck with the sale of the house. Great videos and very informative.

[@jesseburns9734]

Great Job Keep up the good work. May God bless you and your Family

[@msheaver]

Many thanks, Jesse, for sharing this! The biggest surprise that I took away from this video was how (relatively) easy it is a retrofit an old home for radiant floor heat. I was also surprised to learn of tankless boilers, although I should not have been surprised since I had already fallen in love with tankless water heating from one of my prior homes. You have succeeded in expanding my horizon just a little bit more! Honestly, my grand goal is to get completely away from forced air, use radiant floor heating and chilled water for cooling, and source the energy from geothermal. There are a few areas I have not yet figured out with this grandiose vision, including humidity control, fresh air exchange and air filtration; it seems likely that a low-flow air exchange system will be needed to address these areas.

[@jmuller86]

I think forced air should be used only for air conditioning and make-up or emergency/backup heat. radiant is much more comfortable and efficient. my new house will be setup exactly like that. i also need to get doing some research about exactly what to use for humidity, air exchange and filtration. I have a feeling it will be an all in one type system. Let me know if you have any ideas. thanks

[@brettzeigerbacher2314]

@@jmuller86 I've been looking for that golden goose for a while now. The best air system as I have determined is the CERV. They aren't very well marketed but their product seems leagues ahead of most of the major brands. That's what's going on my house. I have found no system that will do both humidification/dehumidification together in the same box let alone together with an ERV. So right now I'm looking at 3 different boxes in line for my fresh air intake just to control the shoulder seasons.

[@Melicoy]

In your new house.... Please dont use pinch rings on pex. get the copper crimp rings. Last much longer. I have had floods with the pinch rings :(Beautiful system by the way. GOLD star for a great newbie job. WOW 👍👍👍

[@vivianwilliams2216]

It's a really awesome setup, and it's really cool how you explain how and why you did everything, thanks for sharing! 😊👍💕💕💕

[@jmuller86]

Thank you. It works really good

[@josephdriscoll8527]

Nice video good job with the radiant and set up ,thanks for bringing us along .

[@rotex380]

Great job once again Jesse, it should be a very efficient unit.. next to wood heat.. but your boys safety is the most important factor of all.. enjoyed watching you install it your a very knowledgeable guy.. thanks very much for sharing, stay safe..👍🍻

[@jamespatrick5930]

U are using the indirect water heater as a boiler buffer tank, this is exactly what I like to do! Don’t use galvanized pipe or fittings, it causes corrosion in hot water systems. I put electronics higher up than possible water leaking parts. Good job!

[@Leonard_Smith]

Thank you for such a comprehensive explanation of your radiant heat system.

[@Guysm1l3y]

Using the hot water tank as the reservoir for the hydronic heating is really interesting! I have a similar setup EXCEPT the hot water tank is set up as a 3rd zone in the boiler controller, so if either the upstairs, downstairs or domestic hot water thermostats call for heat the boiler starts up and feeds water to the system in question. It will supply to either or both radiator heat loops at once but it will only do heating OR hot water, not both at once (and the controller logic prioritizes hot water since that has less thermal inertia than the entire house). I REALLY wish they would have set it up like you did, like you said that way the boiler doesn't have to kick on every time a zone calls for heat and it would smooth out the usage demand. It was a retrofit of a literal 1962 boiler and standalone gas water heater system and I (nor the installers) thought of that. Good video!

[@jmuller86]

yea that was the goal from day 1, find a way to set up radiant heat that doesnt make my boiler run the whole time. I knew i had a really powerful boiler at 199k btu and i knew you could use storage tanks but i never understood how a tank would do anything other than pass the water through and still make the boiler turn on. i found out recently about indirect heaters and thats when it all clicked and i started ordering parts

[@Andrewmichaud14]

Great install! I'm currently doing the same thing in my old house atm. If you want to make it even more efficient you can add radiant foam padding to cover the underfloor pipes, should help keep some of that heat in. Also not too worried about the water/glycol flowing back into my domestic system since the domestic side is at a higher pressure than the heating loop. Another option is to run your heat loop through a plate heat exchanger and turn your water heater tank off during the summer but keep your circulation pump on. Hook the other side of the heat exchanger to your domestic hot water going into your tank or instant hot water heater, this will pre-heat your incoming water and cool down your floors. Can also hookup a flow switch so your pump turns on whenever cold water is going into your domestic hot water heater. Cheers!

[@OverKillPlusOne]

Until you have a failure of the domestic water, or you shut it off to replace a hot water tank or fix something. Then your heating loop contents will happily flow right back into your domestic water.

[@Andrewmichaud14]

@@OverKillPlusOne most systems don't even need glycol, especially under floor joists like this, and if you are changing a water tank then you can just turn the supply water valve off.

[@AlanT252]

Great video Jesse. You should definately have a t&p valve on your radiant side. It’s there as a fail safe. If the zone valve for the primary fails open and the boiler doesn’t shut off you could be looking at some pretty high pressures in the sealed system. Unlikely, yes, but it happens. Those tanks go off like a bomb if the pressure gets too high.

[@jmuller86]

I thought the expansion tank was supposed to take care of that?

[@AlanT252]

@@jmuller86 The expansion vessel can only take a certain amount of expansion. Once it’s taken up all that it can the tank will continue to build pressure untill it explodes. The expansion vessel is only designed to take up the normal expansion under normal conditions. The t&p valve is there for when there is a fault condition. Think of it like an air compressor with no safety valve. In normal operation it’s fine, but if the pressure switch fails and doesn’t shut the motor down when it’s reached normal pressure, it will just keep building and building untill something goes kaboom. Should be easy enough to tee a t&p valve in on the radiant side of the circuit.

[@timmyzsixx62]

That is 100% correct you need your safety valve on your tank bud...it only protects you does not effect the system at all

[@ellymay9146]

Jesse, What a beautiful job you did. Thank you for sharing this. I am married to a 79 year old man...😊 that can still do a LOT of things but i am worried that his slower days are coming. We live in a 960 sqft home with a crawl space and have only used a wood burning stove for the past 30ish years. We do have a boiler in the house but it stopped working 30ish years ago. I have been thinking about this kind of heating for a while now but have absolutely no idea where to start. Can you point me in the right direction please. ❤

[@jmuller86]

Just follow this video. This is about the most simple setup you can have. I did another temporary radiant setup video I did about 2 years ago on my new icf house with an electric heater. It was very affordable

[@kennethmclean3679]

Wow! you amaze me with all the jobs you are able to do. It looks too scary for me to attempt. Nice work.

[@danwheeler5130]

very impressive jesse now your making me rethink my house lol (i'm jesse's Dad)

[@ksook13]

Very impressive work Jesse.

[@horstszibulski19]

Plumbing will always be witchcraft to me...rarely got it watertight in the first time and all the different measures... :-D Thx for the vid, really interesting and nice to watch! :-D

[@AndrewGray87]

The ports on those webstone iso flange valves are for filling/purging the system. The air scoop is only designed to remove small amounts of air that comes out of solution as the system is running, not for removing all the air on your initial startup. So typically you would isolate the pump and put a hose on the supply side where you fill with water, and then run a hose on the return side outside and run water until it's a steady flow with all the air burped out of the system.

[@13soxs]

Great video Jesse, my only concern, would be all the electrics surrounded by pressurized water!!

[@thomasbailey8306]

Looks good Bud. I would love to have radiate floor heat. But I live in a Double wide LOL..Great job on install. Thank You for sharing.

[@denisewilson8367]

With a closed & insulated foundation under your dbl wide you could retrofit radiant heat.

[@andrewpipitone1572]

Good video. I did radient heat though my home when building. I made a mistake using those cheap chrome manifolds. ;- ) Good video.

[@crfuzz1144]

Hey thanks for the video/inspiration. Convinced my wife we could put in radiant heat with our oil boiler based on this setup. Planning to pick up a cheap indirect tank from FB marketplace today!. Getting parts together for a summer project in my old farmhouse!. :)

[@jmuller86]

Thats good to hear. You can add alot of comfortability to an old leaky house by adding this onto your current setup, its also more efficient because it helps the house hold the heat instead of it going to the ceiling like with radiators or forced air

[@gazza6348]

G'day mate. Wow got a lot of experts today jesse all the best buddy 👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@rickmervine9952]

Congratulations on 100K subscribers!

[@acreageliving]

Jesse you did a great job! I know how much work this is, i have redone some of my underfloor radiant and closed it off from my outdoor wood boiler! The parts sure add up fast too! I plan to redo my entire underfloor set up because of the previous owners crappy install. THe lines are not even attached to the floor lol. One thing I have learned though living in a house with radiant heat, is you want the bedrooms on their own zone! Its 80 in the bedrooms and 70 in the living room/kitchen. The manifolds are also under the bedrooms though. I will be fixing that when i redo the rest of the radiant! Most set ups wont have as big of difference in temperature as mine, but there is alot of picky sleepers out there who like a cool bedroom or vice versa!

[@scrappinbig2239]

That is a good system you are installing and you made it look nice and secure . I hope you have or plan on marking the loops where each of them go so that the new owner will find it easy to trace down if there ever was an issue to arise . So I'm fairly new to your channel and you mentioned that your home is over 100 years old and was curious as to what it looks like on the outside. I don't know if you have already have a video showing what it looks like , if so let me know what # video it is on. Would like to see it . Looking forward to your next video !

[@mar1video]

What a great video ❗️ Thanks for sharing ❗️

[@anthonyenosis1]

Great video! Maybe add some foam or other type of insulation where those loops are installed. Will ensure that precious heat your paying for is pushed up into the floor and living space instead of disputed in the air of that basement.

[@bitorajac1]

awesome work, i did the same thing. id only recommend to some veiwers is to have the controllers (electrical) above all the water. but looks great

[@bobjoncas2814]

...good one, keep safe and have a great week...

[@stromxtc2033]

Excellent, another tool in your brain box. Always love looking at these manifold systems, they are truly industrial art. Your new system is going to be even cooler (excuse the pun 😉).

[@Bobaliking]

My only concern after your tidy up is that you have steel pipe going into a copper tank and to my understanding that can cause electrolysis and joint failure. May be use brass and copper.

[@JamesLeatherman]

I recognize those AIM Radiant components. My wife and I ran a radiant system in our new build in Greenville back in 2002. We pulled pex through probably 3000 sq. ft. of joist space.

[@jmuller86]

greenville ny?

[@JamesLeatherman]

@@jmuller86 Yep - actually, Erling put us in an AIM video back then. Maybe we were the only married couple crazy enough to take on a job like that.

[@jeffsteinmetz7188]

Good content. The details are very helpful.

[@sidschwan8031]

Nice job Jesse you sure no what your doing.

[@kiiiisu]

havent watched yet but i bet its good as always, and i love these longer episodes! better than hollywood movies lol

[@russorpcom]

This was an interesting and well explained video. Thanks for posting!

[@firewalker1372]

Very nice setup man.. nice having a basement, beats laying on your back underneath a house trying to install something like this. 1500 is not bad at all for a system like this.

[@RubenKelevra]

10:20 I think you missed one point: The hot water will be pulled out pretty quickly from that tank. You need to run the tank at boiler temperature and have an additional temperature mixing valve: The cold side of it is pulling return from the loops while the hot side is pulling hot water from the tank. You just set this mixing valve to the temperature you need for the subfloor heating. Your point with the different temperatures in the tank is valid, but only if you consider that you can't put any more insulation on the tank... well - just put some extra around it :)

[@christopherscott8853]

I think his loops will air lock by where he installed the air purge.

[@Bo88y22]

Master of all trades.👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@scottsatterthwaite4073]

Retrofit a radiant system like this under a hardwood floor. Fun!

[@arnoldromppai5395]

good job. one tip tho, on your next instal, all fan coils and the tank, you need to install tee's on the in an out, with ball valve on all feed an teturn line and install boiler valves on each tee like you have theone valve on the tank, you need them for coil maintenance, you on demand water heater comes with them, you turn off the ball valves so you dont pump any diers though the lines, only though the copper coils, you pump the dieier out of a bucket at a mix of 4oz to a gallon of water, you hook up short washing machine hoses to the valve, one to dump back in to the bucket and one from the little 110 volt pony pump you let it pump though each coil for about 10 min. then flush with clean water pushed though, as the coils get a coating of any thing from iron to just normal oxidation witch really cut back on the heat trasfer, with out installing theboiler valves you have to cut your linen off an clamp on a hose, big pain, this is done once a year minimum, if you have hard water its every 3 months, you slowly loss heat..

[@jmuller86]

Ok. i will def check on that. Thanks for letting me know. And I will put an isolator /drain valve on it

[@DelButch]

Great Video so far ,,but I don’t think we’d get away with mixing black steel pipe galvanised elbows with brass fittings in the UK ,,but I am enjoying all the plumbing work

[@jmuller86]

I thought the same thing but I couldnt find a reason not to be able to use all of them together

[@pmiller7886]

Black steel corrodes super fast...water plus heat = rust. Inspector would never let that fly. Galvanized period if using steel pipe. Sorry to say but that's wrong. Bigger point is the t and p discharge, never ever remove blow off valves in a hot water system. Never. Love your channel, but this setup is no bueno compadre. Master plumber and contractor for over 35 years.

[@dennisnilsson7654]

@@jmuller86 There is something called galvanic currents. It occurs when you mix galvanized pipes and copper pipes in the same system.

[@DelButch]

Brass and iron = oxidisation ! In a couple of years where brass meets iron you’ll get black crap that can and will block the pipe and eventually the chemical reaction will leach the copper from the brass and the brass can just crumble ,,but as your not going to be living there ,,, it’s just good practice really ?

[@johnturner4400]

@@DelButch what about steel radiators? They have brass fittings in them?

[@CharlesNewkirk-lb6uh]

Nice video! Yes clear and straightforward.

[@josianrodriguez1249]

SALUDOS JESSE, FROM CLIFTON N.J. YOU DID A NICE JOB. ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO AS ALWAYS. G.B.Y.A.

[@DagarothBlackrose]

Dude, that shirt is epic. Nothing says "I work on my house in my spare time" more than that. I have a very similar one, except its red, LOL

[@cbdoil4082]

I have a boiler with a hot water storage tank for domestic hot water. Mathematically I should not be able to run out of hot water. But you can. It is great. It did spring a leak however. Smith gave me a brand new one under its lifetime warranty. Never thought of doing this. I hope it works well for you.

[@fredrobinson6990]

Good job on a complex system.

[@doctorjohn-burgtekie]

Nice job, well laid out plan and install.

[@williammutscheller7735]

It looks like you installed a Fill-Trol Tank/feed valve in addition to an external pressure reducing valve. In essence, two water feeds in-line instead of just one. I would recommend you use the external fill/backflow preventer and replace the Fill-Trol with a tee and an Extrol tank.

[@dokmanian]

first 20 minutes I would have been to 47 Home Depots 623 time looking for all the parts and after a lot of bad words I would have given up and got a space heater.You do great work looks great Jesse I love how you stop and explain everything you do and even your mistakes. You are a great teacher. Would it help if you put insulation on the pipes?

[@kjterz]

good progress.....very labor intensive.........

[@kylejones2075]

You're giving me some good ideas. Looks good thanks for sharing.

[@denisewilson8367]

Add harkbite are illegal behind closed walls in my area bcuz they are known to leak. We use the expander & pex band which never leak. Good luck.

[@joshuasheaffer9913]

Definitely stick to Not sweating anything. also using a pexa like Rehau everloc is alot faster and easier on the hands than all them crimp collar fittings. Important thing is you got it done.

[@orionwarren4244]

Beautiful job! You know, I watch both you and Andrew C's channels but I gotta say, you both are extremely motivated young men but you seem to be more plugged into the 'day job' side of things than he is. Just my opinion!

[@bradstubbings9871]

Awesome video and awesome job

[@casycasy5199]

nice job if your still in the house in the winter let us know how its working

[@sydneymcconnaughhay5947]

Your my hero, from Florida Great viedo 😁

[@jerryleejohnsonjr1377]

Very informative, thanks Jesse.

[@johnturner4400]

Why is it that the most work we do to our houses is when we are about to sell them?

[@ebutuoyebutouy]

Lol! So true.

[@TheAnalogKid2]

most likely, the new owners will renovate the house and demolish all your efforts.

[@christopherscott8853]

I bought a house and during a walk through I mentioned that the bathroom tile has to go. The seller overheard and yelled at her husband with an "I told you so" voice that he wasted all that money on tile. They installed it a few weeks earlier. Lol.

[@bigblockstang9368]

Same with cars and trucks in my line of work.

[@LightGesture]

The funds in repairs are recouped. I did my house up reeeal nice long before i sold. But finished lots at the tail end. Always in mind the next owners. "Willow Wood Wonder." Its now a cheasy named airbnb in Omaha... :P

[@tucobenedicto109]

Just watched orange pipe right of the right manifold, metal clamp? Bottom of the peerles aqua bank boiler in clamp? nice job.

[@richmill6043]

Sweet job there. But I would have added a couple of unions. A leaking fitting will take a while to repair it would seem.

[@jmuller86]

i could take any fitting out of the pex in a matter of minutes, its easy. Draining the system would be the time consuming part

[@richmill6043]

I was just referring to the hard pipe plumbing on your way water tank. Enjoy all your vids. Wa biting on more from your new home build,

[@jmuller86]

@@richmill6043its not a bad idea to have more unions

[@vishalb84]

sir, that's a piece of art

[@zachary3777]

I hope your basement is well insulated because that is more of a radiant ceiling heating system for the basement.

[@jmuller86]

yea its a conditioned space and we wanted to heat it, this system has worked real good this whole winter

[@zachary3777]

@@jmuller86 good to hear!

[@networkcrasher]

Jesse - was wondering if it would make more sense to mount those zone valve manifolds 180 degrees at the beginning? That would have left the part of the bracket that sticks out further on the top. This way you could run the tubes for the bottom manifold behind the top one making for a cleaner install and easier access to the valve components long term.

[@jmuller86]

Yea that might have worked better, I really had no idea where everything was going to go at first, kinda made it up as I went lol

[@networkcrasher]

@@jmuller86 nah man, you did a great job. I enjoyed watching the process. I feel like you also tried to make the system as nice as possible - even though you're planning to sell. That's a great way to go about doing it so the next homeowner doesn't have issues. Who knows - the new home owner may contract you to do other projects down the road! Either way, my comment was mostly geared towards your next install as a different way to tackle the valves