How To Insulate PEX Pipe for Outdoor Wood Boiler DIY : Homestead Upgrade

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Жыл бұрын

Outdoor wood boiler piping is EXPENSIVE but not if you do it yourself. In this video, we'll show you how we managed this homestead upgrade to insulate our outdoor wood boiler PEX pipe. This DIY project is easy to complete and will help keep your boiler warm in the winter! Well easy if you learn from our mistakes.
If you're looking to heat your home with an outdoor wood boiler, then this DIY insulating PEX pipe project is the perfect solution for you. By installing this project, you'll be able to keep your boiler warm in the winter and minimize your energy costs!
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@CynthiasCraftsandmore Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing! Blessings to you and your family!🕊✝🙏🏼💖

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

Thank you Cynthia

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

Made mistakes BUT we figured it out. If you havent already be sure to SUBSCRIBE. If you're already subscribed...a HUGE thank you friend!!!

@jankotze1959 Жыл бұрын

That will work friends, well done, enjoy the hot water this Winter,

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jan you know we always love seeing you in the comments ❤️ Yeah it’s a bit more work than we thought it would be but it’ll alllll be worth it when it’s blowing cold in a month or two 😉

@ihfarmer8164 Жыл бұрын

Kenny you’ve got a rocking head of hair still 👍😂. Glad you guys were able to do this yourselves, I have been wanting to hook my outdoor wood stove to my shop for heat for a few years, but the cost of the underground pipe has always kept me from doing it. Good information you guys are sharing here. Take care.

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

His hair is sooo thick (I say he’s thick headed) 😆 I was floored when I seen the prices and was like uhhh noooo we can do that cheaper 💴

@theadventuresofkennydebbie Жыл бұрын

Almost to 1,000 Nice video. 👍🏻

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

Thank you. We’ve been stuck around 960 for a few months I don’t think we’ll ever get the 1,000 🤣

@LuizHenriquePinho87 Жыл бұрын

Hello I am from Brazil Happy Sunday to you my New freind

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

Happy Sunday to you as well new friend Luiz

@bluebirdhomestead Жыл бұрын

10:46 Sorry the tape did not work out for y'all, hopefully you guys found a better solution :)

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

We did 👍

@YogiHollowFarm Жыл бұрын

This was awesome. Love that you came up with a cheap alternative. We have been thinking of an outdoor wood stove for hot water and heat

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

We had to that was just too much for what it was. I’ll letcha know how this one works out for us, it’s a used one. We’re all electric now so I’m sure it’s the best move for us…electric went up 35% over last year and half.

@YogiHollowFarm Жыл бұрын

@@AbundantAcresHomestead eeeewwww we are all electric also and replaced the wood stove with a pellet stove. It was a quick way to heat inexpensively in that moment…when we first moved in. All we have is pine here to burn. So now the outdoor wood stove would work with that

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

Sounds like you got it right going with pellets. We have an abundance of wood and with the 2 tornadoes that hit us this year we have a TON of it down

@ArkansasPilgrim Жыл бұрын

Every turn in a coil of tubing (or anything, for that matter) is a twist when you try to straighten it out. The heat exchanger for the furnace works just like the heater in your car. Water cools your engine, then the radiator (a heat exchanger) releases the heat to the air that's blowing through it as you drive. The heater does the same thing. There is a little "radiator" (heater core) inside the car that releases the heat to air inside the car, rather than outside the car like the engine radiator. The heat exchanger in your house system releases the heat in the hot water to the air that is being blown through it.

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

Kenny tried MANexplaining it too 😆

@ArkansasPilgrim Жыл бұрын

Since you have 2 layers of insulation, the air gaps that are between them will make the toal R-value more than 8, because it's the air spaces in the insulation that actually makes it insulate. It's probably not much of a difference, but every little bit helps!

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

Agree we figured only what insulation value of the blankets offered

@CajunHydroponics Жыл бұрын

Great way to save some coins yall! I have seen those boilers up north. They don't have them around here. Pretty cool how they use them. Even for heating floors! Glad to see you got to talk in this video and not just work Kenny lol JJ. Yall take care and good luck with the rest! Gro Dat!!

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

I couldnt believe the price of the tube! Our neighbors have in floor wood boiler heat. I tried getting him to shut it LOL

@CajunHydroponics Жыл бұрын

@@AbundantAcresHomestead lol that PEX is crazy priced alone. I been searching for the best cheapest way to run the water out on the farm. PEX was not it by cheapest lol. Poor poor Kenny! Lol

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

It wasn’t cheap but definitely cheaper than the lines already done. How many feet do you have to go?

@CajunHydroponics Жыл бұрын

@@AbundantAcresHomestead ibam just running water line. The 1st main line will be about 200 feet. Then I have about another 200 just for the watering system for the blackberries. Then I will have to run other main lines for the different areas for fig trees and other fruit trees. Will probably end up with around 1000 feet. But I don't wanna be running hoses all over trying to water things. Rather have too many main lines than trying to run 200 feet of hoses lol

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

@@CajunHydroponics cha ching!

@thatguy3630 Жыл бұрын

What size pex is that? Crap man that is expensive, good for you figuring out how to do it yourselves!

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

We used 1 inch pex. I know I couldn’t believe how expensive it was!

@rickjames6948 6 ай бұрын

If you are putting that mess, in a trench, use a 2" PVC pipe. Run your cheap Chinese PEX inside that. Protect the PEX, insulate with free AIR and save a ton over what you spent.

@AbundantAcresHomestead 6 ай бұрын

I could see that would have worked as well but we already had the drainage tile so to buy pvc would have added to the cost.

@randyvoiles6579 Жыл бұрын

Wrap them separately 💪

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

It’s already done 👍

@wowyummyyy Жыл бұрын

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 💯💯💯👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊 ❤️

@rickjames6948 6 ай бұрын

Why don't you use pipe insulation? Get the rubberized material for like HVAC.

@AbundantAcresHomestead 6 ай бұрын

The aluminum material we wrapped is pipe insulation.

@OhMostBobulousOne Жыл бұрын

I know it's a little late now, but the foam pipe insulation that can be found at your local Lowes that comes in 6 foot lengths is probably a good way to go. I'd wrap it with that foil stuff on top of that, (the stuff you used on attempt 2) and duct tape it together. While doing all that, I might consider including an electrical supply at the same time, you may need it out there.

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

We looked at the foam pipe insulation first. I’m sure it would work but the cost to do both 80 foot runs…expensive. We did add an electric line to hook our pump and light up, we probably should’ve shown that in the video. We definitely had to run electric out to ours. All awesome advice!

@jeffbute8431 8 ай бұрын

Bad idea

@MissouriOldTimer Жыл бұрын

that looks like quite a job, probably something I'd not love to do. lol

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

I thought it would go quicker. It wasn’t my favorite job but for that price…yeah we’ll do it

@Johnnyclean 9 ай бұрын

Why is the boiler so far away from where the water will be used?

@AbundantAcresHomestead 9 ай бұрын

How our house sits and the way the winds blow is why we chose the location. If we put it closer the ashes could land on our house and the smoke would definitely smoke us out (we open windows for fresh air, occasionally even through the winter). The only other option would've been our front yard.

@joeclay6401 10 ай бұрын

What was your heat loss?

@AbundantAcresHomestead 9 ай бұрын

It was 180 at the boiler and 176 at the house, so 4 degrees at just under 80 feet. We trenched 3 foot down and came up to 2 foot where it came into the crawlspace.

@cedricsimmons2033 Жыл бұрын

Hello and good afternoon the worst thing you can do is put your pipe in drain tile if water gets in it you will be heating the ground look for ants and green grass is a sign you are heating the grass in the winter time if you use thermopex you will save wood and your back and lay your Pex out in the sun on a hot day it will uncoil and lay flat

@AbundantAcresHomestead Жыл бұрын

Thank you…thermopex wasn’t an option for us due to shipping confusion AND the outrageous expense $💸$. 80 feet would’ve cost more than we paid for the boiler. We have a TON of down trees so saving wood isn’t an issue for us. We had 2 tornadoes so there’s more wood than we could burn.

@rickjames6948 6 ай бұрын

You are wrapping to STOP thermal losses. Why use an ALUMINUM material? Let that marinate for a bit.

@AbundantAcresHomestead 6 ай бұрын

The aluminum material was insulated