Any reason why everyone is doing this with water hoses rather than hot air ducts? Just thinking about the potential water damage is making my bank account itchy.
One reason is that many heat pumps use water as the thermal mass for heating and cooling. If it were a traditional furnace or similar, it would be more effective to use air, but with a heat pump, water is king.
"It is striking to see that water is 23.5 times more efficient in transferring heat than air. Further, given a specific volume of water flow over a hot component (the volumetric flow rate), water has a heat carrying capacity nearly 3,500 times that of air."
Still pissed my wife wouldn’t let me build this into our kitchen and bathroom when l did the remodel (myself) 17 years ago. Now she wishes she let me do it and stops saying “no need to gold plate the place” lol.
Heated floors are amazing and efficient. It's also an easy way to adopt any cat that sets foot in your house and also trigger the sheer anger for withholding such technology from the supreme leaders.
I have radiant heating in my house. It is so nice. It's not even more expensive except for the initial outlay when the house was built but even that was about the same since we wanted tile floors anyway.
Koreans are the only people I know who had radiant floor heating. The winters are much colder there than Japan imo. I did see a family that had this in Ma, and in their house and in their garage. They must have worked a lot in there.
Nah there's not. The 'staples' are plastic very 'not sharp', because they're pushing into PIR board, and the underfloor heating pipe is tough, and usually aluminium lined.
Yes they make grooved PIR board, but remember you're gonna pour 50-70mm of screed on top of this, and if one bit of pipe comes loose and floats up, you've just fucked everything and are back to the drawing board...
The only time you use the grooved board is if you're not screeding. Did it for the bathroom, just tiled over.
Everything is better on a stick! Hotdogs, chicken, tiny burgers, marshmallows, an oligarchs head, frozen treats, candy covered apples, cotton candy, so many options!
license2kilt
I feel like that tube is being fastened about eight times more often than necessary.
captainfakeypants
Why waste time use lot clip when few clip do trick
vote4mclovin
I can't find the hidden "Tool Gifs" anywhere.
Mikataki
imagine missing just one of those staples though.
carbonar1
Faaaack, that whole setup, gridded foil as well, would have made my life so much easier in the last 10 years. Just ask my knees.
ChanceVLuck
Clearly knows what he's doing. Some would say he radiates confidence.
Fulustreka
He f* knows
waiterwilly127001
It's a neat tool when you need it.
DaisyfromDownunder
A foot stapling machine.
zazznz
This guy's pipe laying technique is spectacular.
ApothecaryGrant
Any reason why everyone is doing this with water hoses rather than hot air ducts? Just thinking about the potential water damage is making my bank account itchy.
Reddot99
One reason is that many heat pumps use water as the thermal mass for heating and cooling. If it were a traditional furnace or similar, it would be more effective to use air, but with a heat pump, water is king.
ssakm
Water holds way more thermal mass than air and conducts heat through the floor. Air warms the room fairly inefficiently and slowly by comparison
zer0vector
"It is striking to see that water is 23.5 times more efficient in transferring heat than air. Further, given a specific volume of water flow over a hot component (the volumetric flow rate), water has a heat carrying capacity nearly 3,500 times that of air."
DJThuglifeSupreme
Water probably holds the heat longer and disburses it better along the concrete
AzraelWalker
Can I hire this guy for an hour to clean up my Satisfactory belts?
getsbetter
He is wearing his safety sneakers.
obie5778
Neato freeto
StephenDeadalus
Still pissed my wife wouldn’t let me build this into our kitchen and bathroom when l did the remodel (myself) 17 years ago. Now she wishes she let me do it and stops saying “no need to gold plate the place” lol.
Kenbamazingbutprobablywontbe
Man... those are not steel toes is my first thought.
Walfas
Damn, I wish I had one of those when I did in-floor heating...
SnakesInBowties
I've wanted one of those for the longest time, just to show off around other men who do things around their own houses.
TsubakiTragic
Bob, you're using way too many staples, think of the declining profits. From now on use just 4 staples, one in each corner. She'll be fine.
sixtimesseven
Heated floors are amazing and efficient. It's also an easy way to adopt any cat that sets foot in your house and also trigger the sheer anger for withholding such technology from the supreme leaders.
LittleAzie
Yes, my terrorfloofs love it.
malakim
Heated floors are absolutely gorgeous, agreed. Only gets annoying if there is any leakage.
ElbowDeepInAJedi
I have radiant heating in my house. It is so nice. It's not even more expensive except for the initial outlay when the house was built but even that was about the same since we wanted tile floors anyway.
seaoforanges1
Koreans are the only people I know who had radiant floor heating. The winters are much colder there than Japan imo. I did see a family that had this in Ma, and in their house and in their garage. They must have worked a lot in there.
bobesser
We put radiant heat in our dog kennel in the 1980’s. The puppers loved it and it really cut utility bills
CreeewDeeeTaaay
Ondol floor?
Brownie19
Clark needed that baby to decorate the roof!
ActionJohnnie
ubiquitouslastname
I’m guessing for Radiant heat flooring.
Escapist83
yep
pibyte
Wrong. That is the required cooling for the upcoming NVIDIA 5090.
Sipulikeitto
You mean the required cooling tubes for the actual cooling turbine PSU of RTX 5090?
JackingMeHoff
Oxygen Barrier PEX tubing
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
These floors are accepted
Eniff
... Is that supposed to be a Storm Light Archive reference?
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
(the odd capitalization in the comment I was replying to made my brain do a connection)
Eniff
Lol. I'm currently reading Wind and Truth. It's so good.
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
Same lol
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
hushpuppyextraordinaire
Now plumbed with gravy
Nalianna
You had me at gravy
LariCheltsy
AnarchX1
Yoink!!
sacrosanctt
That's gravient heat
hushpuppyextraordinaire
Te-he-he
Rips4w
I don't see the benefit of making me destroy an entire floor for breakfast every morning.
hushpuppyextraordinaire
Don’t have to , just meet the gravy with an open mouth at the exit tube.
LariCheltsy
Szj2
That would require a constant source of gravy and a gravy pump. I feel like that would just fill your house with gravy.
LariCheltsy
SunBrolem
Sounds good to me
hushpuppyextraordinaire
Plug the gravy hole exit tube into the gravy pump when not actively eating gravy. Buy your gravy at Costco for volume discounts
zer0vector
They make a foam board with notches that's way easier than this.
Joylove
There’s also a risk of a puncture with this tool as well. Penultimate staple almost went through the hose.
Zamm005
Nah there's not. The 'staples' are plastic very 'not sharp', because they're pushing into PIR board, and the underfloor heating pipe is tough, and usually aluminium lined.
Yes they make grooved PIR board, but remember you're gonna pour 50-70mm of screed on top of this, and if one bit of pipe comes loose and floats up, you've just fucked everything and are back to the drawing board...
The only time you use the grooved board is if you're not screeding. Did it for the bathroom, just tiled over.
Zamm005
It's nowhere near as good as with a screed (takes way longer to heat up, doesn't hold heat nearly as long)
michaeloberg
Also Warmboard which has an aluminum skin with the grooves pre-formed to both guide the PEX and distribute the heat more evenly across the floor.
Whatever bullshit this is, ain't it
JiffyPopPhantom
Warm board is pretty cool. During a winter rough-in its rough. Sucks the heat out of your feet and any snow on it makes it soo slippery lol
GunTotingLiberal
...it's a stapler
JTechnopotheosis
on a stick
bardman135
A neat stapler
VKost
Or strapler
IUpvoteFuturama
ongabonga
TheLeanWolf
on a stick!
TheSaltyCaptain
A stickler?
Johnsky
Everything is better on a stick! Hotdogs, chicken, tiny burgers, marshmallows, an oligarchs head, frozen treats, candy covered apples, cotton candy, so many options!
CyberHexx
TeaOverdose
Jose the green jalapeño on a steek! (is that his name? not 100% sure)
Fulustreka
And isn't it the stapler a tool...?
OldBikerDude
I think his disagreement is with the 'neat' label...
stonecoldstevebuschemi
This guy's a hater.
StephenDeadalus
he’s a tool
Fulustreka
I didn't get it, maybe some joke...
🤷🏻
ticktockbent
There is no joke, he's saying it's not that neat because it's just a stapler on a stick.
Fulustreka
It its f*cking neat and that's why I uploaded this f*cking shhhhht.
MightyZephyr
The joke is that some people are amazed by basic hand tools.
Fulustreka
Ok, so haha 👍🏼