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coast of Maine | One of my self installs was done on the super cheap.Friend gave me an oil fired water heater(common here) put it mid room along a wall,metal bestos chimney thru roof.Used 275 gallon fuel tank used.About 8 ft along wall away from water heater.Copper line with filter and fire-omatic valve on both tank and heater burner,2 circulators,a line from water supply into water heater, 2 circulators,both tied to a wall thermostat.(line voltage thermostats) a small expansion tank in return(maybe it was a gallon or 2) couple ball valves in pex lines,2 zones out and back.one circulator per run,floor was a wash bay 18x95 -16 ft ceiling,I think all in the most $$ spent was on the chimney.Most other stuff scrounged or had cheap.You can add a larger nozzle to oil burner but we stayed with a .85 GPH.Slick ,Cheap.maybe 10 years,,then a GMC pickup diesel ,self cranked(lousy computers),burned shop and wash bay down.Post fire I plugged the pex inlets into the floor and added antifreeze with thought of using in rebuild,They were stlll fine,abandoned the idea,used another building for a shop.Built a dry storage over that old concrete and pex lines are still in there. | |
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How to do Floor Heat?
