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Comfy Homestead
Добавлен 20 фев 2022
Hello friends, my name is Mykola. I’ve been passionate about building and fixing things for as long as I can remember. I love to think about creative projects and then working with my hands to make them become a reality. I love teaching and empowering my friends to become more self-reliant in order to build and fix things around their homes.
Over the years I learned a lot and built a lot of things. Some projects turned out better than others, but I’ve always aimed to learn from my results (good or bad). This helped me push myself to take on more challenging projects and continue to grow and develop my skills.
Comfy Homestead is a place where you can learn to level-up your handyman and handywomen skills. A place where you can develop your personal growth by taking on your home improvement projects, while trying techniques that are a bit further than your current comfort zone. Comfy Homestead aims to help new home owners and people interested in becoming more handy.
Over the years I learned a lot and built a lot of things. Some projects turned out better than others, but I’ve always aimed to learn from my results (good or bad). This helped me push myself to take on more challenging projects and continue to grow and develop my skills.
Comfy Homestead is a place where you can learn to level-up your handyman and handywomen skills. A place where you can develop your personal growth by taking on your home improvement projects, while trying techniques that are a bit further than your current comfort zone. Comfy Homestead aims to help new home owners and people interested in becoming more handy.
Adjusting Sliding Doors
In this video, we will address three issues that are currently not working well with our sliding doors:
1. The current door setup does not enable the doors to fully open. This limits the available space we have to go in and out of the room
2. The doors don’t have door guides. Without these guides, the doors easily swing away from the wall.
3. The doors are missing handles
1. The current door setup does not enable the doors to fully open. This limits the available space we have to go in and out of the room
2. The doors don’t have door guides. Without these guides, the doors easily swing away from the wall.
3. The doors are missing handles
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Installing a whole house water filter and water softener system
Просмотров 20 тыс.Год назад
Today we are installing an Express Water whole house three stage water filtration system as well as a Fleck 5600 SXT water softener system with 64,000 grain for the entire home.
Simple way to change your light switches to a dimmer, a timer, and a motion sensor
Просмотров 2,1 тыс.Год назад
Today we are looking at how you can easily change your light switches around the house and install a light dimmer, a light timer, a timer for a bathroom fan and a motion activated light.
Build your own custom kitchen drawer organizer
Просмотров 625Год назад
Today we are building a custom drawer organizer. It is a very simple process that enables you to organize your kitchen items and accessories. This approach can be used to add order to any drawers around your house. For the material, I am using 1"x 3" Fir wood and 1-1/2 brad nails to keep everything together. I hope you find this useful and that you can use this system to organize your own drawers.
Build your own Kubota BX23S / John Deere 1025R Mower Deck Dolly / Caddy
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.Год назад
A very simple DIY project for your sub-compact tractor's mower deck. This mobile mower deck dolly / caddy is very simple, practical, convenient, and easy to build. It enables you to keep the mower deck in a vertical position in order to easily service it in a comfortable position. It is also convenient because you can move it around the garage and keep it out of sight during the off season. The...
Installing the Radiant Floor components
Просмотров 53 тыс.Год назад
Today we are installing the main components of the radiant heated floors. Specifically, we will be installing: - 8 zone manifold, - Water pump - Y-strainer - Air scoop - Expansion tank - Float air hy-vent - 1 zone switching relay - Temperature and pressure gauges The entire system will be connected to a 50 gallon gas water heater using 3/4 inch PEX pipes. In the video, we discuss the different ...
Ring Alarm Retrofit Kit Installation
Просмотров 9 тыс.Год назад
The Ring Alarm Retrofit Kit installation is actually very straightforward. The first thing you need to do is to identify which existing sensor around the house is connected to which wire in your current alarm panel. Once you identified the sensors and wires, you are ready to move them to the Ring Retrofit panel. It is important to note that the Ring Alarm Retrofit Kit is really optimized to wor...
How to install your own smart doorbell
Просмотров 4 тыс.Год назад
Installing a Smart Doorbell Today we will be looking at how to replace an old analog door bell by a new smart doorbell. Specifically, we will be looking at the Lorex 2K Wired Video Doorbell. The installation is very straightforward and consists of three simple steps: 1. Remove the old doorbell, install the new doorbell and connect the wires. 2. Add a chime accessory to your existing doorbell ch...
How to close the sprinkler system before winter
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Today we will look at how to winterize a sprinkler system in your garden. This is a simple project that you can easily do it yourself. You will need: - an air compressor - an adaptor to connect the hose from the compressor to the sprinkler system - have access to the valve to shut off the water supply to the sprinkler pipe - have access to the sprinkler valve box outside in your garden Before y...
How to drain (flush) a hot water tank and redo PEX pipes and fittings
Просмотров 356Год назад
In this video we will look at how to drain (flush) a hot water tank. We currently have two 50 gallons gas hot water tanks connected in series. We will drain and disconnect them in order to have two stand alone hot water tanks. One hot water tank is going to be used to heat our radiant floors in the basements. The other hot water tank is going to be used as the main hot water source for our home...
You better be putting antifreeze in with the water with the power goes out same freezes cracks the floor
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Happy to find a video this helpful. Thank you so much. I am using this in my new bus build out to an rv. Thanks again!
Damn... You shouldn't fill the brine tank to the top
is there a way to add ethernet to the wifi doorbell.. prefer not to use wifi
How to know you have enough water in the system?
What size of pipe you use?
You should advise people to SWITCH OFF ELECTRICITY SUPPLY FIRST!!!!!!!!!
Great video !
Noticed the water supply pipe to the manifold way too small.
Will you show how to install a SHELL WATER SYSTEM?
Well Done. Thank you.
That's my spring project for this year.
I have a question. When you turn the thermostat up, do you hear the pump cut in? What may be the issue if you don't hear the pump cut in. Thanks for the great video.
I am going to do this weekend's project. I recently purchased a home, and it utilizes well water. I need to filter my water, and I can see that this is the best way.
sorry I cant hear you !
Is that black iron going into a shark bite?
Is that black iron?
We modeled our radiant floor system off of your video and it’s working beautifully! Our next step is to add the thermostat that controls the pump. How did you know what switch relay to get and how to wire it to your thermostat?
Yes second that good video.
So do you only fill up the system once then it keeps recycling? Kinda like radiator heating?
yes
Did u turn the breaker off ?
And why do you use a gas water heater instead of a boiler, it's also more convenient and can be controlled via the Internet, and more compact.
You were very helpful thank you.
Enjoyed the detailed walk through. Do you have a rough estimate on price? I’ve looked at pre built systems and they are outrageous. But I’d like to build my own. Just curious if you had a price breakdown? Thanks
We just installed a setup nearly identical to this video and got all our parts (not including the pex tubing or water heater) for around $1000. The manifold was a big chunk of that.
Great Video! Thank-you. Quick clarification! I understood from the video that at the start, the incoming hot water was going into the wrong manifold, is that correct? In the final installed system, the hot water is shown going into the opposite manifold (the one with the non-white cap), which seems like a mistake. Can you please confirm if my understanding is correct?
At 1:50 you said the water would come out of the manifold at the regulators. At 2:10 you mentioned your pump pulling water out of the manifold with the regulators in it. Between 4:36 and 5:02 you swapped the manifold positions. So my question is.....does the manifold with the regulators get incoming hot water?
this is the only video on internet explained diy system. thank you very much pieces switch sensor and thermostat, trying amazon..no idea: for my house next year 4" concrete electric boiler..no idea how to configure actuators wired up to open close??? what? 4 long sensor from each concrete zone hooked up to a switch box capable of connected to 4 different thermostats? what kind of thermostat? maybe they sell switch relays with 4 thermostats in and somehow wire each actuator to each thermostat and not the switch relay? then thermostat would open or close actuator. no matter what its always just one switch and 1 pump going on or off.??? it can't be that difficult. and WHAT ABOUT EXACT FITTINGS BETWEEN EACH COMPONENT YOU SHOWED??? IS it 3/4" pex or 1"? because the amazon boiler air scoop says 3/4" FIP. your video looks like 1" pex on the wall??? please list the exact connection pieces between each device. thanks
The huge problem with this is radiant floors in concrete take several days to heat up and cool down so your thermostat will make your house act like a wave up and down. This is why real radiant heater boilers stay steady and even have wifi to the weather forecast and adjust days in advance. Its best to use a tankless water heater that you can adjust to keep it steady.
Your original installer did a horrible job.
Is it not best practice to put the water softener before the filters? To avoid having to replace filters so often?
I'm no plumbing expert but you're absolutely correct. A filter isn't meant to deal with the hard water, so putting the softener first optimizes the filtration process as well
@@owg952I was wondering this too but the instruction manual for my AO Smith stuff recommends this order: 1. prefilter/sediment filter 2. whole house water filter 3. water softener
Mine didn't come with chime kit?
Mine same plz advice
Fantastic!!! I'm going to build one for my bx.
Nice, how did you size your pump?
How long was the loop in total? I ask that because I want to understand the power of the pump. How long a loop can one pump run? I have a large floor area where I will need 3,600 feet of pex, which means I will need 12 loops. I wonder if I will need 12 pumps or if I can run all the loops with fewer pumps. Thanks for helping to answer the question.
Clever solution. Thank you for sharing.
I have the same water softener looking at getting the express water filter you have as well. How hard was your water, and why did you put the filters before the water softener? Gotta love how easy pex is to work with but boy does it look sloppy haha. (all lop sided and floppy).
thanks for the video! I have a question....do you need to subscribe to a cloud service to record videos or can you record the videos on your phone/sd card when the motion detector is triggered?
You should have really tight the water heaters manifold style not in series one will always harder than the other
Hi Is there switch that has a dimmer and timer built in one? I need to dim my front overhang lights and would like to it to be on a timer as well. For instance have the front lights turn on at 7 PM (Dimmed) and shut off at 10 PM.
Good install very easy to understand, but if your not using O2 barrier pex then the pipe is allowing air through the piping. Not a problem however if you used cast iron pump and not stainless the pump and air scoop will rust out over time sorry didn’t see all the others saying the same thing before I posted. 👍👍
Good point. I will likely change the current pex to the Oxygen barrier pex in the near future to prevent potential issues.
if you you didnt use oxygen barrier tubing on your mechanical room piping. you should add some Fernox, which is a corrosion inhibitor. the oxygen will seep through the regular pex, and prematurely eat away any ferrous metals like your circulators. even if you did use oxygen barrier pex. fernox or any corrosion inhibitor, and certain propylene glycols will have inhibiotrs as well as antiburst/freeze
I will likely swap the current pex to the Oxygen barrier pex in the near future to prevent potential issues. Cheers!
I'd be tempted to build a protective cage around the orange floor pipes since they would not be easy to replace if damaged for whatever reason, if something heavy bumps into them hard.
That’s a good point. Cheers
This has me thinking about how it will be installed in my build. I am thinking of making a plywood half wall. Like 4 foot wide 1 foot deep. Bring it up about 3 foot. Then do the something similar for the domestic water and returns. This would protect what is going in to the slab and ceiling. Allowing for everything else to be to the left or right.
Are you in the USA. Great video!Did you buy a kit or design it?
Hi, I am in Canada. I bought the individual parts and created the system myself. Glad you found the video valuable :-)
can you give us an update how the system is doin? thanks @@comfyhomecomfyrv
Man amazing job. This is by far the best video I have watched. It's clear as day. You explained everything no cut scenes skipping things. Awesome awesome.
Thanks William! I am glad I could help.
On the first switch, what is that blue tab on the bottom left? (Before the cover plate goes on)
I added a wire nut to isolate the 3 way wire. Hope it helps. Cheers!
Not the wire nut, at 3:23 there is a blue tab that stick out a bit that looks like it can slide up and down, the faceplate covers it though, so it's something that would be set and left alone.
The blue tab acts like a dimmer. You can slide it up or down. You can use it to set the brightness of the lights.
your in and out water temps may be off since the gauges are not in the water flow streams. might want to keep that in mind
Fair point. Cheers.
Beautifl system! I have a similar system with one zone and 4 loops.50-gallonn power vent water heater. I added a 24-hour timer so that the pump has power a half hour out of every hour. This addition lessesens the stress on the water heater. It also makes sure that the water heater does not run continuously as the water would continue to lower in temp. I am heating a 1,000 sq ft shop with an 8x18 door. I keep it at 65 degrees. Last week, it was 12- 18 degrees below zero, with not a problem. 😀 I do run glycol in this system as well as an insurance policy.
Thanks Mark. Agree, these systems are very good and they heat really well. I wish all our floors had these. Really comfortable overall.
The timer is for the pump or water heater? There is a bit of confusion as to what you have on a timer. How do you regulate the temperature with in the shop. This is what I understand. You have 1000 square feet with 4 loops of 250 square feet each plumbed in to a 50 gallon water heater. Your pump runs 50% of the time. At this point I have no clue if your water heater is just on like normal and you cycle the pump 50% of the time and it keeps it at around 65f?
@@kameljoe21 " I added a 24-hour timer so that the PUMP has power a half hour out of every hour."
@@bluegorillacookies Still does not explain how he keeps it at 65f all the time. The problem with putting a timer on the pump is that you do not put less stress on the water heater. Using this example if the tempature of the water in the slab is 50f and you run it though the water heater for an hour and bring that water temperature up to 51f. By limiting the water flow and stopping the pump only allows you to heat up 50 gallons of water for 30 mins then push it in to the slab then cycle it for 30 mins and moving that heat around. This does not increase the speed in which you heat the slab up at all. A radiant heat floor works just like any hot water circularizing system found in some high end homes or in commercial settings. All water heaters are set up for this. You have incoming cold water, outgoing hot water and recirculating line. The hot water lines all loop back to the water heater where there is a pump. The pump keeps the water temperature at the setting you have it set. This could be 120f which makes all the water in your system 120f all the time. The water heater shuts down when it reaches the set temperature. When it senses a drop in temp it heats it back up again. The only change from one system to the next is how the water heater shuts off when it reaches the temperature inside the home/room. Really to keep the floor temperature stable you need that pump running the entire time the water heater is on. For example the pump should shut off when the water heater is not on. Other than that there is no reason to have the pump cycle.
@@kameljoe21 I just told you what the guy said in plain English. I'm not an expert by any means, but I imagine he means there's less stress on the water heater because it's not cycling on and off as much as it were if the pump were circulating water all the time. For example, with well water, there is a pressure tank that acts as storage so that when you turn on the faucet, the pump doesn't have to turn on for 2 seconds and then off again. I know a water heater isn't a well pump, but the water heater acts as thermal storage, like a pressure tank is storage of pressurized water. Instead of the water heater on 100% of the time, it could just turn on when the pump is running, and when the pump stops and the tank is back at holding temp, it could chill. The slab also takes time for it to heat up and cool off, so keeping it (around) 65 isn't that hard to imagine. You said, "For example the pump should shut off when the water heater is not on. " But not necessarily. If the water heater has 50 gallons of hot water in it, and the room is dropping in temp, that 50 gallons of stored heat can be used to bring it back up to temp.
Great video. With only a 10 degree drop in return water temp...shouldn't the flow rate be reduced to allow a more complete heat dissipation, or am I missing something. Sounds like the system needs a timer on that pump to regulate the time the heated water is allowed to do its job. Or is the concrete such a poor conductor that it requires the maximum heat possible just to maintain the desired temp. Lots to consider.
Hi there, the pump does not run continuously. The thermostat (located in a different room) controls the pump. When the temperature drops below the set point, the thermostat calls for heat and the pump starts to push/pull the water through pipes in the floors. The hot water tank also does not run continuously, it turns on only when it senses that the temperature of the water is below the set point.
10 degree drop in temp for infloor heat is ideal.
Its actually less heat dissipation the slower the water goes. Faster flow equals more heat.
@@suspicionofdeceit People feel better when they feel heat. Yet if you were to put temp gauges on them and cycle the slab water first with no additional heat you would see that it is 70f and when you add heat the return water will slowly increase as the slab warms up coming back as 70.1 70.2 and so on till it reaches the set room temp ( numbers are made up yet serve a point to future readers)
Good job of explaining all the components...How the system works, etc... I've watched dozens of videos and found yours to be very clear and easy to understand! Just had to share that...
Thank you Frank. I am glad I could help :-)