Thanks for sharing such detailed information. I am going to do a similar project this summer. Hooking the water heater and the HVAC system to the boiler. Most videos will tell you generalities. You went into much more detail where I could not find real answers. Thanks!

I chuckled a little when I saw your mounting setup on the hot water heater 😂.. I like it!

@survivingcountrylife7069

4 жыл бұрын

It works pretty good !!!!

Thanks for this! This is great information. In the process of having one installed at my home because propane heat bills are not fun. I'd no idea the thermostat just taps right in to the house fan circuitry at the thermostat. So simple!

Nice. Looks good.

Nice set up..also glad you are saving money with your investment too..

@survivingcountrylife7069

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Me too. My goal is to have this thing pay for itself over the next five or six years.

Yes Ben, I have mine set up the same temps. but I don,t heat my water with my boiler. My electric bills are 150 to 200 dollars a month all year including all my welding and grinding. I just count all the propane I don,t burn all year. I figure at least 400$a month for six months a year for propane is what I save. I am on my second furnace in 22 years. The first one was still going after 13 years but then I decided to go stainless, and gasification type. I use a lot less wood now and figure the stainless furnace will last me as long as I live. I want to get a water heater element installed on my water heater for next year. I had a homemade one for my first furnace, but didn,t use it with this furnace even though I knew it was the cheapest way to heat my water. The furnace change over and changing over to our new house with all the zone valves went over my head for me to understand, so I didn,t heat my water with the new furnace, what a big mistake that was. Now 9 years later I have decided to get it done this year. The only drawback I have on gasification is you have to have all dry wood testing 15 or less and it has to be split a lot smaller or it will make a lot of creosote and you will have fires going out because of not enough hot coles built up to stay lit for the longer cycle times of the computer control. My wood always tests from 4 to 14 and really burns good. Mostly white ash. Ash borer came through here 6years ago and about killed all the ash. We are getting all of the dead ash cleaned up now for the next 2 seasons. Then we have lots of Poplar, Basswood, and Beech, some soft or silver maple. Lots of wood, but more work than Ash. We have White Oak to. A little White elm to, known here as piss elm. The deader it is, the better it is. Good wood then, but doesn,t stink. Have a great day Ben.

I have an old farm house no insulation but the furnace 2 sizes bigger , same set up but to my oil furnace which haven’t used in 17 years , he’ll with oil prices , but cause your getting all that hot water flow I did my lower level radiant heat off the pex , very easy to do and it all comes off the boiler

Where have you been Ben. Hoping all is well. Miss your videos. Would like to hear from you, just to know you are OK.

I’m trying to perfect a similar system, which uses a coal boiler, already installed in my home which we bought 5 years ago. I need to keep my fan running all the time to maintain a consistent fire in my coal boiler... otherwise, the water temp spikes while the fan isn’t running. Only have 1 thermostat, connected to my electric heat pump. It’s basically nit being used when I burn coal and keep the fan running in manual mode. My boiler water is piped directly through a heat exchanger in the return duct of my heat pump. Any suggestions on how to improve my setup?

If you have not already You probably will experience sediment build up that will adversely affect your water to water heat exchanger at your hot water tank Because sediment builds up regularly in the bottom of your water heater the manufacturers recommend that they be flushed annually... by flushing your tank you eliminate the build up at least temporarily at the port where the drain valve is located but you do not get the build up that accumulates directly under the water to water heat exchanger where you currently have an elbow I would advise replacing that elbow with a Tee and looking at The tank with the heat exchanger on the right have a water Spigot on that right side of the tee so that you can flush not only at the port where it leaves the tank but water will also force under the connection at the water to water heat exchanger and clear any blockage that will accumulate

So Good! Have u ever thoght about solar Hot Water?

Thanks for the video. Very hard to find video's showing the indoor plumbing. If I understood you correctly, if your boiler is sending hot enough water to allow the valve on the pump to open then you always have hot water going through the exchanger in the furnace whether the house is calling for heat or not. Than if the thermostat is calling for heat it is actually only turning on the fan?

@survivingcountrylife7069

4 жыл бұрын

You are correct. Cause that same line is constantly sending hot boiler water through the heat exchanger on the hot water heater as well. Squirrel fan only turns on when the boiler thermostat which is jumper wired into regular house thermostat calls for heat

I guess my question is before I watch your video is this water under pressure the water that your heating in the exterior boiler do I need a a water expander or a blowout valve I wanna build it out of complete slate and stone and sand I don’t have any access to steal and I don’t weld I’m a pretty good Mason though

How much did it ALL cost? Nice.... And for the people below, its a water heater,

I hooked up our boiler this past January and my plumber/hvac guy couldn’t figure out how to wire the squirrel cage blower so that it only comes on when heat is called. Therefore it runs all the time. My second thermostat is only signaling a circulator to bring in hot water when he house heat is called for. Would you mind explaining how your system is wired so that the air handler runs only when heat is called?

@joacchim57

3 жыл бұрын

The second t-stat for the woodburner heat control has the two terminals used for heat (red & white, I believe) connected to the electric furnace t-stat terminals that control the blower (red and green, I think). So when the woodburner t-stat calls for heat it turns on the blower. Hot water is always flowing through the heat exchanger in the furnace plenum, so turning on the blower sends heat throughout the house. He doesn't use a zone circulator like you do, water is constantly circulating and must do so to prevent freezing in the lines coming into the basement.

OMG $600 ? My bill is $145 at the coldest during the winter, but I am in California on the border with Oregon on the coast. I believe my biggest draws are my freezer, and fridge also the 75" TV. My dealer told me to take the guts out of the thermostatic valve, he said it works better ?

@survivingcountrylife7069

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure about taking the guts out. I think things would probably run fine without it to be honest. But my dealer put it in. I run my boiler constantly anyway. Just got done putting about 2.5 wheel barrow falls a day through it in polar vortex

We are currently under a winter storm with no electricity! We have a generator that should run the entire house. Everything is going with the exception of our furnace fan that distributes heat throughout the house. Any ideas on what the problem could be? Boiler and blower is working fine.

@survivingcountrylife7069

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure. If your setup is like mine you need ur boiler pump for water to be running. Your boiler door flap to be giving itself air when it needs to keep boiler temp and then ur squirrel fan in your central air to run to be pushing air through the heat exchanger into ur house. Sounds like you said your squirrel fan is not running. So if yours is like mine it gets its power from main breaker box and there's also some additional breakers on your furnace itself although I think they're for the electric coils. U could try putting your thermostat in manual fan mode and see if ur squirrel fan would run. If that would work then it would push heat through heat exchanger into ur house