You can use this heater to warm up your engine during winter! I added valves to be able to have only hot water in summer without heating up the floor. And having my heating system connected to the vans engine,it works even the other way around. Meaning that without the heater i can warm up my floor while driving. You doing a great job! Bon appetit and more cheese please!🔥🤘🧡

So glad you mentioned Humble Road George... he is cool... I mean warm

If you want straighter boards at the home store, find the largest length available and cut them down to size in the parking lot with a circ saw. So instead of getting a 8ft 2x4, get a 16 footer. These longer sections come from the lower trunk of the tree, which tends to be stronger and straighter than the 8 foot sections which are more likely to be from the taller sections of the tree and prone to warp.

You guys did a marvellous job of planning and executing this heating of your van. Your choice of homes (van) will result in certain losses of heating system efficiency compared to a traditional dwelling. In a traditional home employing radiant heating with floor joists, etc. the radiant tubes are in contact with the underside of the subfloor so the metal plates conduct heat from the tubes into the subfloor, then the finish floor material and finally radiates the heat into the conditioned space. Insulation is typically placed about 4-6" below the radiant tubes in the joist space creating an air gap. You have an air gap between the insulation and the flooring. This is imposed on you by the van's construction. Air gaps are not a good convector, so some inefficiencies are introduced into your system.The net result is that your supply water temp will need to be slightly warmer than in a convential system . Due to the small volume in the space you likely won't notice any difference, and your feet will be warm in the morning.You came up with an excellent solution to implementing radiant heating into this space. I'm a retired Mechanical Engineer and have designed several radiant systems in more traditional buildings. Bravo once again.

I'm glad you talked to George of Humble Road. I've been watching and re watching his videos for years.

You two work so well together. Of course all of your cheesy jokes and little added pop-ups make it even more fun to watch. Lots of great information 👍

Finally, something good to watch on Sunday. I have 4 chihuahuas that cuddle under the blanket and keep me warm ☺ Ps I ❤ George !

So good…love the chemistry you two (four?) have…so entertaining! Don’t have a van. Don’t want a van, but we watch you anyway…fun!

I'm here watching wondering why your channel doesn't have a million subscribers mainly because the kind of content you upload deserves million views.Just bumped into your channel thats how I'm staying for life.All the best man

Wow great video. A lot of these van builders try not to show this. Thank you.

Just wow! You’ve taken it to another level. DBVB.

You guys are awesome! I was feeling sympathetic for you working in the cold too.

When you trace your pattern on to the flooring you can trace with a razor at the same time to pre score and it helps w chips! Great work Team!

information utuber is always welcome

Excellent job you two! I love how thorough you are being with this build. I think radiant heat flooring is a great idea. The insulation is terrific and so worth it it. I am a little concerned the floor joists are only glued down. The marine adhesive is very good but there are many stresses on those joists. When you take the floor up again, think about securing the joists with a few screws, Simpson strong ties or even galvanized pipe strap. In my SUV, I have the butyl/closed cell all over and havelock wool stuffed into the small or oddly-shaped spaces. I use a butane stove heater for heat. Because of the insulation, thick flannel blackout curtain (headliner to floor) and my insulated window shades, it stays comfortable without much heat.

Glad you managed to get it working - you are 100% right about these heating kits, the companies that sell them don't actually tell you how to install them for this usage (mostly because this is not entirely what they were designed for...) It's mostly just a guessing game on our end to try and figure something out that works, but it's doable and in our completely unbiased opinion...worth it! 😉 Enjoy the heated floor 👍

I was searching for info on this awhile back... youtube suggested it today! Thanks for making a great video!! You have some of, if not the best, van build content on the platform. Keep crushing!

Lol, I appreciate the 'alu-MIN-I-um'

Excellent video! Thank you! The sound and video effects add a lot of fun! The build is looking fantastic!

This one is to help with the youtubes algorithm.

Van Floors are COLD!!!!! You will be so happy for this time and expense. Thank you for sharing!

You guys are so cute ! Definitely cuddles for warmth, + the dogos

Beautiful, you are the only ones to do this kind of heating. well done bye

Good video. That's going to feel great in socks or bare feet.

You are so fun to watch and I’ve gotten many ideas from you. I do believe that ideally the PEX goes everywhere, including under solid things like cabinets, etc., because solids retain heat and emit it. Open the door and heated air goes poof but solid items are like temperature batteries. They store the heat and gradually let the heat into your van.

In a van there is no such thing as overkill when it comes to insulation 👌

Great build, very tidy... with your furring.. joists.. you could have laid them out used a marker to mark your cuts.. construction adhesived them down(leaving your gaps for pex without adhesive) let it dry, then use a multi tool to plunge cut out your gaps..saving all the time of laying out, cutting laying out again etc.. you just waterproof, glue, lay out rows and cut gaps.. you did great though! Also flashing tape from zip systems is 26$ a roll but is awesome to tape down almost anything! Your diffusers would never move.. that stuff sticks to everything!.. it stretches if you like.. it's 6 inches wide and is perfect to use instead of duct tape or any tape really.. plus it's super useful just to have in your tool kit...most rigid insulation can be scored and snapped, and if you heat the pex a little it will be way more compliant making your corners against its will lol. A heat gun..or hair dryer in a pinch will work . Good job guys! These are just good hearted opinions for what they're worth.

Just stumbled through your room here. Super cute dynamic and great content. Best to you both!

Yesss! Adorable couple intro for the win! ❤️👌

This is a great idea and you two did a fine job on it. For me there is nothing worse than cold feet.

Dude! I've never even thought of a heated floor in a van, that's freakin awesome 👍😎 As and edit, 7:05 on a related note, as a kid I drank some paint thinking it was orange juice 🤦

Love it! Super practical for any cold(er) climate! Love to see how it’ll work for you when the build is complete!

Just a thought for future reference. The insulated panels cut very well on a tablesaw. Very nice build so far!

Very cool I’m wanting to use electric subfloor heat elements. I will add it to my horse puppies kennel area. Since they haven’t stopped chewing yet.

Loving watching the progress. Great work guys!

Great video, nice to watch you work so well as a team.

I'm not installing under floor heating but I am using a diesel Webasto water heater for hot water via a heat exchanger, for showers and washing up. I do have a few extra ideas but they are in the planning stage.

This was very informative!

Not joists, "sleepers"...love you guys.

Great video. Really well explained. Loved the pop ups. Do more of those.

Congrats on 30k homie! Been here from the start, next stop 100k!

You guys are going to have one sweet ride!

you need a second heat exchanger for the engine. you can use engine to heat the van, OR! you can use the van heater to keep the van engine warm.

I can’t believe I’ve never come across your channel before! I’ve been watching a ton of van life and Schoolie videos for a few months now while doing research on it. I’m so glad I came across this video. You personality is so fun, I binged a bunch of your videos and subbed

Hey, very nice upgrade to the channel. Last I looked you were traveling with 4 legged companions. That Julie rocks. Excellent work on your heated floor guys.

You guys are awesome. You both have great ideas and thoughts. I love it

Congratulations on 30 thousand subs! There’s new comment people too! I’ve been watching this channel too long haha. This floor is an amazing idea and so much detailed work. Yet you and the fuckin delightful Julie seem to work together seamlessly. And you both speak naturally and not like the process of drilling 300 tiny pieces of wood in very particular degrees according to the stars alignment for only 2 days of that year with the excitement of winning a powerball lottery and with the smiles like the Black Hole Sun video for Sound Garden.

You two are badass! You did a damn nice job!

Thompson is a good water 🌊 resistance product

Video content with such a great vibe. DBVB

Good team work guys , seems this van will be much warmer than the last , well worth all of your efforts , ba bye

Great job 😎👍

14.20 to stop the wood chipping, run some masking tape on the wood first, then draw your line and cut

thank you folks for communicating clearly I appreciated your share

Great video, and amazing to have heated floors with air, to avoid leaks, so awesome, 4sure i will copy your system, let us know if it works in low Temperatures

I saw a guy do heated floors in a Skoolie - he used the 1.5 inch foam and then used a router to create a channel for the pex tubing and heat emission plate to sit in. He had the wooden joists like you. He put the foam (like the purple foam) in between the joists, then routed a channel into the foam, then he installed the metal heat emission/transfer plates into the channel then he put the pex pipe into the channel in the emission plates. I think he did it this way to save on cost, as he had one type foam insulation and it is actually how the layers should be installed. For house floor heating all diagrams show insulation with a channel for laying the heat emission plate into - then into the heat emission/transfer plate channel you put the heated pex lines. But I think your way might also work, but not as well as his method.

Wow! Great job!

My van heats from hydronic floor, boosted by air coil near side door. Same circulation goes through DHW tank and through valve setup to engine & cabin heater. From spring to fall 9000 BTU heat pump provides both heat & AC, run from 7.2kWh LFP battery & 900Wp solar and 3kW inverter

Wow. Alot of work. Well done. Hope it works out great for ye 👍

Thanks for sharing guys :) it's not the blade which causes tear out in wood unless extremely blunt. It's normal, the way blades work being jagged one side and conforms more the other way. So use tape on both sides of the cut or use a reverse blade direction (vertically in a jigsaw) if cba/rough and ready. Or cut from the other side but that'd only help marginally :) also best use a scribing blade for curves, it's just narrow to change direction-depth and razors are the same except for being finer probably-finer and thinner the teeth/blades means they're safer but cost more or replaced more and don't work effectively on thick mass like hardwoods. The thickness is only valid for circular saws and and the like, as they're longer into the wood at higher continuous speeds causing friction, making the device jump back usually onto the person irreparably or if fixed like a table saw, the wood is then catapulted from between blade and fence enough to make the same damage as a bullet albeit more brutal/blunt. For drawing templates, make something with thin ends and a writing utensil on the other-find the thickest part of the cut (wheelwell depth in this case) and folkow it parallel scribing onto the cardboard :) sorry if I missed you doing that :)

Have another comment for the Algo! Great video! First one I have personally seen of an installation of radiant floor heating. Would have loved to see how you hooked all the other parts together too! Keep up the good work!

Since I work at Lowe's, I know you shopped there since we sell all of those items 😂😂 This was a great video!

Hell yeah dudes! Ganna keep them toes nice and toasty

You're geniuses. Thank you.

Polyiso has a poorer R value than XPS at lower temperatures. So good choice using the XPS board.

Love the way you doing this. I always had the idea of flor heating in my van. Thank you for this inspiring video. PS: Only this isnane inches and feet mess confuses me every time. 😶

Excellent. Thank You

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Good work!! Love your content, DCMV. Not sure why youre still only at 30k subs. i gave you a thumbs-up.

This was a very good video. Ben you have done well with the upgrades. I was thinking about finishing the wood and you used waterproofing. That seals the wood. Didn't know aluminum cost that much. Looking forward to your next video.

Super informative, thank you! (Also, legit amazing editing, like wow if there's an award I'd submit this vid)

Finally got my version of the heated floors installed. It’s a mix yours, humbles and Darens. Lol. It works really well. Almost to good? I think I need a mixing valve so the floors don’t get to hot. Maybe a thermostat? I just have the heater piped directly to the floor and the easy start timer set to 30 min. Floors get to hot if on for much longer. I’m interested in some type of thermostat vs a timer.

Thompson's Water Seal. Look it up, good stuff and dries clean.

Anxiety and trappin farts is my favorite way to stay warm for sure ;)

To make the bends easier use a heatgun

Al loo min nee yum !!! YES! YES! YES! The Aussification of the USA proceeds apace! Best way to stay warm: be endothermic.

You could have used a bathroom shower waterproofing product?❤️✨Well done for working out that heated floor👏🏻👏🏻

Great video, only just started binge watching van builds again due to being off work injured and stuck on the sofa all day…. I never leave comments on people blogs but I Came across your channel this week and binged shit loads of your videos… very entertaining and also a little more true van life rather than the usual instagram false shit you see. Happy to see your you now have a partner in crime to enjoy your van life and also another dog to keep Roc entertained. Gutted to watch your video on Archie, you can clearly feel how much he meant to you and at least you had a great 10 years together exploring the states. I Will look forward to watching more of your videos over the next few months as I will be off work for a while and these will keep me entertained. Also I checked your Anmly business online and actually went to buy a T-Shirt but everything was sold out ( which is a good thing I hope as that means it’s doing well?). I will keep an eye out for when they return in stock and I didn’t check but do you post out to the UK?

keep the faith

Good work, two small observations. First, if you draw the pattern on the underside of the plywood, there will be no chippimo on the upper side when you use the jig saw. Or, use downcut saw blades. That works, too. Second, do not use red chalk when snapping lines on finished wood. Just don't. Red chalk is for framers that work out in the rain. Red chalk is forever. You are doing finish work, so use white chalk. White chalk is the choice of champions. It will go away with far less effort.

Awesome video, thanks so much. I have a pre-instlled heater in my van that works off the engine coolant. I was thinking about using it for my hot water. I did know these kind of diesel heaters existed, but I have never seen a video about someone using it in a van for a camper van build. I'm really curious how it works and also how you connect it together. You didn't show the process in this video. Read something in these comments about using valves to cut off one part of the system. Anyway, I would love to see how the rest of the system comes together. Love your style in video's btw!

Boiled Linseed oil is very good for water proofing wood leather or vinyl

Love it

I've always preferred the term "Shoilet" over "Wetbath", it has a certain hilarious ring to it.

Love you guys!

Awesome

Great. Hope to see teal world review a year from now.

Interesting.

As a Brit with central heating in every British house. I never knew a water heating system is called 'hydronic' heating. Blow heating was removed yesrs ago from houses.

Such a helpful video! Any update on how this worked out for you now that it's been 2 years? Anything you'd do differently?

You could have bought treated 2x4s then ripped them to the desired width. They are made for not rotting in humid conditions. But very wet until they are dried out....you'd need to cut it with a table saw.....or even a circular saw.

if this system was so efficient, the car engineers certainly used this system, they no longer resorted to the version with fan and radiator

Super cool!

Fun video!

nice

I'd use KILZ interior/exterior primer instead of the one you used

COOL! Thanks!

Nice job. XPS is actually a better choice than polyiso. Polyiso loses R value over time and as the temps drop whereas XPS does not.

Dog warmth, for sure.

use a heat gun to help make the Pex more workable