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Top 5 Tiny House Heating Options for Winter Living - Off Grid & On Grid
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
- We're sharing the best options for heating a tiny house, the pros and cons of each heat source, and the product links below if you want to learn more!
Thumbnail photo by Donald Lebel from Domaine Floravie. Domaine Floravie is an incredible tiny house resort on the shore of the St Lawrence River near Rimouski, Quebec. To learn more, visit their website here:
www.domainefloravie.com
Choosing a heating option for your tiny house can be overwhelming. There are so many options out there! To start, you'll want to ensure you have a well insulated tiny house, and an HRV system (heat recovery ventilation) to ensure you're always getting fresh air in your house without losing precious heat energy.
Next, you'll want to use a BTU (British Thermal Unit) calculator to enter the climate and volume details for your tiny house so you can find out how big or small your heating system needs to be. At this point, it's a good idea to also decide if you want to be on the grid, off the grid, or have the ability to do both.
Once you have this information, you can start considering options like a wood stove or fireplace, a propane heater, electric baseboard or wall heater, a solar air heater, or in-floor radiant heat.
We've included links below for the heating systems we've seen used in tiny houses we've visited over the past few years. We're not sponsored by any of these companies.
EcoSolaris Solar Air Heater
ecosolaris.com...
Martin Propane Heater
www.bismar.com/...
Dickinson Marine Propane Fireplace
dickinsonmarine...
Envi Electric Panel Heater
www.eheat.com/...
Cubic Mini Woodstove
cubicminiwoods...
Morso Wood Burning Stoves
morsoe.com/int...
Electric Ceramic Wall Heater
www.homedepot.... Heater
Nu Electric In-Floor Heating
www.nuheat.com/...
Lunos HRV (heat recovery ventilation)
www.lunoscanada...
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The main thing really is to put good insulation in the house. This is basic. After that it seems that we have a pretty good choice of options. Thanks for sharing those options.
The difference between sick & not!
Great video content! Apologies for butting in, I would appreciate your opinion. Have you thought about - *WoodBlueprints. Com* It is an awesome exclusive guide for building better sheds and woodworking without the normal expense. Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my mate at very last got astronomical success with it.?
And double pane windows!
We heated a 384 sqft sitting on a full basement using a Toyo Oil Heater. We only use about 150 gallons a winter.
Is that your house? I clicked because of the thumbnail. Its gorgeous. Saved to my happy campers playlist.
One common cold weather feature for homes large and small a double door entry. Small space large heat loss out of doors just a thought. Perhaps a small three season porch turned mud room come cold weather.
Please do more videos like this going over tiny home feature options! Like toilets, water systems, electric systems, other utilities. Thanks! Love the video
This world needs to be more simple :) Love these videos
Thank you :) :)
Thanks, Matt. This was very helpful and informative.
Every year my Korean wife and I spend some time in Korea, where they use radiant floor heating exclusively. It is super comfortable and trouble free. Wish we had it here in our house in Texas. Yes, we do occasionally have cold winters here in Texas!
Happy Camping
If you have a propane heater, like the ones that hang on the wall, just leave the pilot light on and watch how much that makes a difference in the chill in your tiny house. Especially when you are gone.
Very informative, precise, concise, organised and presented. I say that often and I mean every time, as I'm learning new things with each video.
We realize your reference here is to tiny houses on wheels and you have done an excellent job of covering the serious contenders, however for those who may be living in a somewhat larger tiny space, there is another option. We live off grid in a 400 sq ft cabin in Alberta and our main source for heat, hot water and cooking is our old kitchen cook stove, running on wood and coal. We supplement in the porch with propane heat at night, when the temps drop below -20 C but the cook stove heats the cabin very well and will produce significant heat for 10 hours on one fill of coal. There is never any need to stoke it through the night and our coal consumption is approx 2 tons / year, depending on the severity of winter. Current pricing here is $80 / ton, so a very affordable option for low budget living. Perhaps another option to consider for those headed down the tiny living road.
Thanks for all you do, we look forward to your every posting.
Rob and Sylv's Alternate Life except coal is dirty and very bad for the atmosphere.
So cool that you live off grid. I live in northern Alberta also.
@@jo-lynnhodgson8746 COAL is NOT dirty and its NOT bad for the atmosphere. Your stupidity is bad for the planet. Coal is a beautiful fuel when used correctly and its a shame its not available nationwide. If you had coal available, you'd never use wood. The industrial world ran off coal as a main source of energy and heat or centuries. Only the availability of natural gas and propane made it 'extinct' because you don't have to shovel propane and natural gas....but you can haul coal in a wagon with a horse, or a truck. If coal was available in all over there would be a lot of off grid people a lot happier.
Steven Harris - tisk, tisk, mind your manners sir. The fact is coal remains one of the world 's great polluters due to greenhouse emissions, although this is mostly due to ongoing industrial use by heavy polluters such as China and India. That said, you are correct that when used on a small individual scale coal is an effective heating fuel, much like peat is in some Northern European countries. What I find is that a great majority of off grinders are also environmentally conscious people and would not consider coal as a fuel source because at the end of the day it is a dirtier fuel (to the environment) no matter how you dice it.
One thing that has been forgotten in the modern age is that heating with fire is best when there is a heat sink to soak up the heat while the fire is going, then give off the heat when the fire is out. 60+ years ago, fireplaces were made of large amounts of rock, brick, or cement. Today, lighter weight heat shields can be used as the heat sink that stores heat while you are awake keeping the fire going, then keep the space warm after you have banked the fire and gone to bed. I used to keep a 2000 SQ FT home heated all night with a good sheild that was placed behind my wood burning stove.
Thanks for the info. I don't have a tiny house but I do have a sailboat that will become my retirement home in a year or two. It is heated with a diesel fired water heater that heats the water in my hot water tank if I am not connected to shore power and also sends hot water to 3 zones in my boat where there are hot water to air, fan driven heat exchangers. This system can also be used to provide in floor radiant heat off grid. Diesel fired heaters by Webasto and Espar are very popular but they are not cheap. They are also available as air heaters rather than hydronic heaters.
Bottom line, you live in a tiny house. If it is well built, sealed with a Heat Recovery Ventiltation System and exceptional insulation (best investment in "heating systems" you can make is in ultra high efficiency insulation like spray applied polyurethane foam insulation throughout.) you can approach a Net Zero heating and cooling requirement.
always have more than one heat source
How about an ac with a heat pump
If temps drop very low a heat pump will use strip heater to make up for what it can't do in really cold situations.
Farting also works.
Run around in circles really fast
@@jerrymaxey4664 learned this one in the army, sergeant just points at a hilltop and says "run over there, it's warm in the top"
I built a airplane hanger house once and used in-floor Radiant heating. I used a combo boiler that gave me on-demand domestic hot water and also provided thermostat controlled hot water that circulated in the the pex tubing water lines in the floor. The temperature of the floor was always maintained at about 70 degrees and the whole house felt very comfortable. I did have a thermo mass of about 4 inches of concrete in the floor to hold the heat, but this can work on wood floors as well. I have seen simple systems done with a simple gas hot water heater instead of a boiler to make this work. Thanks for the video...
I was hoping someone would point out that you can do in floor heat with a gas boiler. We had it in Germany. Enjoy.
Traveling Terry that is great... For an airplane hangar house.... Not conducive to a tiny home. An airplane hangar is the size of a regular home+ not a tiny home.
Traveling Terry Have you or can you do a video on this?
Tim Fuller I would love to see a how to video! Looking to do an extremely simple version of this.
Sorry but no, It was years ago in Alaska and it's already built....there are lots of how to videos available if you look...good luck..
I would really appreciate a similar presentation on options for heating water. I don't live in a tiny home but I live in a small, 1,200ft hundred-year-old house in northeast Florida. Tiny homes inspire me to simplify and economize my lifestyle.
Marimilitarybrat if you use a wood or corn stove build or buy a copper tube heat recovery loop in the exhaust flue of your stove. Or Best today is on demand hot water heater simple and cheap. Or use both to get every BTU out of every dollar you spend. Wasted heat is half the battle. Always seal air leaks and use a thin solar foil in your attic to keep your heat from going out the roof. A roll to do your whole 1200 sq foot attic 249 on Amazon. Pay back 1 winter. And saves you 300 every winter after.
Marimilitarybrat I would think that with your climate solar thermal would work well for water heating. It's tried and tested technology, relatively affordable and very reliable as there are so few components and only really an easily replaceable pump to fail.
Navian on demand can heat water and heat the tiny house
Thanks for one of the best summaries I've seen of all the options!
Thanks for this nice comparison.
In the propane section you mention the extra task of changing bottles, procuring them and such. But that also applies to wood-burning of course. That's even more work since you have to keep filling the fire with wood, going outside to get more and such. Also the cleaning of the ashes the next day is an additional task with wood-burning.
You stoke the fire before you go to bed and you turn the air way down low on it. That's how it keeps you warm all night long.
Bennet Fox Those tiny, miniature stoves will burn a full load of wood in only about 3 hours max, putting out very little heat. They’re more of a novelty than a real heat source.
That is your recipe for a chimney fire 🔥!
Build a fire and smoulder it, 80% of the heat will be lost in the wood gas smoke creosoteing up the exhaust pipe...
There is health and safety reasons airtight stoves were banned decades ago...
People lost thier lives and homes choking down their fireboxes like that.
@@HastyHeatLLC you obviously don't know how to operate a stove if smoke comming back in and creosote build up is your problem. 80% heat loss, I think not.
Jason Morehouse What “@Hasty Heat” was (correctly) explaining was the fact that up to 80% of the AVAILABLE heat is lost (in the form of smoke, combustible gasses, and creosote) as it goes up the chimney. Modern, efficient wood stoves are designed to dramatically reduce this, (as it’s inefficient and bad for the environment) by means of a better air-to-fuel mixture, preheated and diffused combustion air, baffles, minimum draft stops, and several proprietary designs which contribute to cleaner, more efficient combustion. However, there’s still some issues with “user error” (as you eluded to) with the result of smoke spillage into the home. But there’s also many other contributing factors that, no matter how ‘good’ of a job you do, it’s still going to be a disappointing failure. Regardless of the stove brand, model, or design, it relies on the chimney as the ‘engine’ that makes everything work. Whether it’s too short, too small of a diameter, too many elbows, or even too large of diameter, all of these things are beyond the user’s control. The chimney will allow smoke spillage into the home. But wait! There’s more! Even if the chimney is perfectly designed and built, there can still be issues with smoke spillage into the home. One cause is negative pressure in the home. This scenario is achieved with the use of kitchen fans, bath fans, clothes dryers, etc. which all are designed to exhaust air to the exterior of the home. This creates negative pressure inside of the house and the replacement air is sometimes pulled inside thru the chimney by overpowering the natural draft of the flue. Yet, There’s still more to consider ... “Stack effect” is a known occurrence where sometimes the house makes a better chimney than the actual chimney itself. Here’s why: The same natural law that makes smoke rise (aka draft) can be applied to warm air inside a heated home. Heat (in the form of warm air) always rises; you can’t stop it. This will cause negative pressures in the lower areas (where the stove is typically installed) and can sometimes overpower the chimney, causing it to reverse and spill smoke into the home... All of the afore mentioned scenarios can result in smoke spillage into the home, excess creosote formation, poor heating ability, chimney fires, home fires, and loss of life. Be safe!
Bennet Fox, the way it keeps you warm all night is you sleep under a whole lot of quilts for warmth.
Great information!! Love my off the grid wood stove, your right about putting wood on at night!!
A lot of alternatives , good options!!
Thank you!!
All the Heat recovery ventilation units i've seen are huge ! good to see a smaller sized unit.
Also you can use a solar hot water heater usually with glycol or something that's not water-based so it doesn't freeze but that also supplements your radiant heat to allow off grid use
A pellet self feeding is a great way to go. But still have a 2nd & sometimes a 3rd source to. Better safe then sorry if you run out of wood or electricity.
People don't usually run out of wood, pellets or propane accidentally, that would normally require a little negligence. But I totally agree with having a 2nd & sometimes a 3rd source, things do go wrong.
Good info. You could also stress using better quality glazing on windows and doors and weatherstripping as well as better insulation like closed cell sprayed insulation (if applied properly) or closed cell rigid panels in walls, floors and roof. If you want to pay the price, you could put in radiant heating (electrical) in the bedroom floor (bonus if your bedroom is over the kitchen/bath). If budget is not critical, you could have a wood heater and gas or electrical as a back-up to keep the house warm when you go to bed. Perhaps some would say that defeats the simplicity of the tiny house. It's a matter of its importance to you and what your budget will allow. Also circulating the warm air in a house can make it more comfortable throughout.
This was a great video. Please make another about toilet options and/or plumbing options in general. Thank you!
Really great ideas and info. Thanks for sharing! 😊
You're very welcome, happy this was helpful :)
I concur on the wood heat, this is especially true in a tiny house with, a tiny wood burning stove. For maintaining a fire all night you have to have a large wood capacity which a tiny wood stove does not have. I live in a small, not tiny, house. My wood stove is great but small and if I do not feed during the night it is out and cold in the morning.
i had wood, kero, electric, and now a wall mounted blue flame propane heater, hands down the best is the propane, simple, reliable, affordable, clean, convenient, instant, and it doesn't take up any space, i have 336sf i use a 20,000 btu its almost double what it calls for, on a thermostat it last a long time
I think you skipped some common ways to heat your tiny house. You mentioned electric in floor heating, but there is another type of in floor heating. If you have a instant hot water heater there is also a hot water in floor radiant heating system that uses a second coil in the heater to circulate under your floor. This also has its own thermostat and is a closed loop. These systems can be powered either by propane or electricity. And the only extra cost would be the installation of the system. The good thing about this system is it doesn’t raise your humidity and since these units are usually installed on the outside of your house eliminating the danger of gas leeks inside your home.
One other advantage is unlike the solar system, it would heat your house day or night and doesn’t depend on sunny days. I personally like my propane heater system because because I am off the grid and it saves my house batteries for mostly my electronics and lighting my home at night.
I like what you're doing with your heating. I was thinking those tinny stoves would be quite a pain in the butt as a main source of heat. No room for coals to build up which is necessary for overnight heating.. I can see a cycle of fill it up burn for what maybe a few hours? empty the ash fill it up and repeat. I think they're fine for a backup or for tent camping on a cold weekend...
Wayne Davis thank you. I have to admit I got the idea from my friends. Class a motorhome.
I am in the process of creating an OFF-THE-GRID heating system that will incorporate several heating options.
it's based upon an in-floor (PEX) system.
My heat source comes from two sources
- First is the roof (or solar) heat collection system
- this will warm (heat) the coolant before it is circulated to the boiler
- Second is the Propane Boiler (if necessary)
- this will bring the temperature of the coolant to a usable temperature .
My goal is to also have a solar powered 12volt DC circulating pump that will move all the liquid with the need for being on-the-grid.
My issue will be at night when there is no sun, for this I am installing batteries to collect the unused energy collected during the day.
Now for those times when I have little or no sunlight.
I need to explore the possibilities of a mini-propane DC generator that will run when everything else fails.
One weak spot in a "water" based in-floor heating system is the fact that it can freeze and rupture which imperils your comfort not to mention the likely possibility that it will seriously damage your structure. I would only use such a system in a fixed residence and not in a movable house like a tiny house. Plus they can be inefficient if not properly designed and installed.
@@sadsak123 i thought light in general is enough for solar panels, light still crosses clouds... no?
This is a very informative video, but hubby said "IF we ever go tiny when I retire...we are NOT going to live North". I agree, ha.
Sizing your heat requirement is super important. Installing a wood stove that provides too much heat can make the house too hot, and create a challenge in staying comfortable and warm. Infloor heating would be really nice for a small cabin or tiny home.
Another great video guys! Really educational. :)
+Gen Smiley Thanks Gen 🙂🙂
Thank you for this video! It couldn't have popped up on my play list at a better time! I have been studying this because I would like to add to my existing system and looked at the wood stove from cubic and the propane heater from Dickenson. Well put together and useful information! :D
Opps! I forgot to ask, what is the radiant floor system, running a wire in a pattern on the floor or mats and what brand is best? Thank you!
"Couldn't have popped up on my playlist at a better time" You DO kmow that this is a common odservance/complaint among people who don't even use Cortana nor any other "useful" audio responsive system... don't you?
You might ve interested in watching "Stare intomthe Lights, My Pretties'
Meanwhile, there is an electric floor heat system shown briefly on This Old House while Rich and the Homeowner/Architect are at a Builder Home Show - it is respomsive to zones. Most Recent Episode or perhaps one prior
Surprised you never mentioned any Rocket mass heater systems which can be used under floor or above floor level and use up to 90% less wood than conventional woodstoves .
My thought also!
jack simper, wouldn't that be too heavy for a tiny house on wheels? I understand it would be ok to use in a tiny house that is not going to be moved, but the one he showed was a moveable trailer type of house.
A Rocket like Space x! 😂😂 x
We burned wood for over thirty years and we miss the type of heat this type of heat provided. Right now we are using a gas fired fireplace unit that has the ability to completely heat our home in the even of a power outage.
If we do build one more home it will be a super insulated one that doesn’t not require a very large heat plant. We built a house in 1990 like this and it worked very well but the size of the house was much too large for our current needs. As a result we will do an advanced design of this house but with a much smaller footprint.
We also employed a massive heat sink into every design we built and will also do this once more. In addition a earth shelter greenhouse will be placed on the site. The one question is if we plan to incorporate the greenhouse into the living structure or not.
Your presentation put out a lot of very important information that will help people decide on what heating system to use thank you
the best advice , for on grid time....floor heat... off grid...wood or gas...you can have both also, the cost of wholesale pricing for floor heat is quite low, when you build your tiny house or small house, start a proprietorship company, get a GST number and open account(s) with a credit card to back it up and save $$ buying wholesale !! it's just that easy :)
I've done it for many diff. projects over the years, works just fine, great for windows too.
Living in the western prairies, you NEED good heating and venting.
I live on the left coast and electricity is priced in tiers, the bottom tier is the lowest usage (and price), to get commercial pricing you must buy commercial quantities.
So interesting. But I'm glad I live in a warm climate.
I have a 10 ft X 16 ft insulated building and I have used an oil filled electric radiator heater to heat my little house on some of the coldest days and nights here in Okla. I use it for backup now as I have a propane cabinet heater now.
Thanks for your insights! Well thought out! I would think that in-floor heating would be wonderful, but hard to fix if broken?!
Usually they're all hard to fix if broken. You can connect all the wires under one floor board to make it much easier to fix.
Wood pellet heaters used to be popular when I lived in Colorado. The auto-feed feature seemed to make sense too.
This guy knows his stuff , good job bro
so much useful information. thank you for the video😊
Wow..thanks abunch for such good information i didnt know about👌great job.
Kudos for the video content! Sorry for butting in, I would appreciate your initial thoughts. Have you tried - *WoodBlueprints. Com* It is a great one of a kind guide for building better sheds and woodworking without the normal expense. Ive heard some decent things about it and my cousin finally got astronomical success with it.?
@@duncandean6457 thanks a bunch 💨👍
You can provide heat to secondary water filled radiators if you put a series of copper coils rapped around your wood burning stoves chimney . The radiant heat usually wasted going up the chimney heats the water in these copper coils and with a small electric pump the hot water can circulate around the radiators - providing heat to all areas of your tiny house.
This was helpful for my decision making.
The average temperature in apartments in winter: Italy - 17 degrees, Germany - 17 degrees, France - 17 degrees, the Netherlands - 16 degrees, Great Britain - 15 degrees, Japan - 10 degrees.
The Russians are shocked by these figures. According to Russian sanitary standards, the temperature in the apartment should be at least 18-20 degrees Celsius. According to Russian legislation, for each hour of deviation in air temperature in a residential building (in total for the billing period), the monthly fee is reduced by 0.15% of the fee determined based on the readings of metering devices for each degree of temperature deviation. Thus, at a temperature of + 17 ° C, payment per month should be reduced by about 87%, and at + 16 ° C, payment is not required at all. If in Russia they used to heat the same way as in Holland, Great Britain and Japan, then the Russians would not have to pay for heating.
In the above countries, the temperature does not meet sanitary standards!
Another option is a Thermal Battery. It stores heat though a phase change material and is off grid friendly getting it's heat from the sun.
Shindinru Much cheaper and easier to use a thermal store, water is an excellent storage medium for heat. 1000 litres takes up one cubic meter, so relatively little space, and can hold upto 80 kWh of heat energy, more than sufficient for a small well insulated home over a 24 hour period.
@@spencerwilton5831 - 1 cubic meter is a lot of space in a tiny home. A thermal battery also can be mounted on the outside, taking up no internal space.
love radiant heating options!
No pellet stove heat? Why eliminate that? It's clean and easy and puts out great heat for the value of fuel.
pellet stoves are usually fairly large (for tiny houses) + uses a lot of electricity (if offgrid)
Jesper Andersen Only about 250 watts of power consumption. Maybe 400 watts at startup with the igniter. But that’s only for about 15 minutes. Light with a match, run the pellet stove on high, and you’ll only need 250 watts. Not bad!
@@bighammer587 what kind of pellets are they?
Norman Henrickson The best wood species for manufacturing pellets is Douglas Fir!
But if you lose electricity, the auger stops and your heat stops with it.
Very useful video. Very well explained when starting to plan. Thanks to Mat and Danielle.
LOVE
loled at the siren reaction
Really helpful info, thank you!!
In floor radiant heating or in wall or in ceiling can be propane Heat so you can be off grid with it it's just as comfortable as electric maybe more so but of course then you have the tanks to deal with but it's very simple and allows for off-grid use of radiant heat
My tiny house uses a propane rv water heater to heat the radient floor heat. Anti freeze is in the radient floor heat. A point of use electric water heater is used for hot water.
the matter with gas heating, it does not delete humidity. Bath oil heaters are super efficient for that. 100 watts electric blankets are also super cheap to use.
There's a recent report on wood burning stoves that discusses the issues of micro particles that are given off into the room space. These micro particles are burn wood particles and some are saying they are as dangerous as asbestos. So in a small houses the micro particles could be more concentrated for the user than those in a standard sized house which has a larger space.
Thani you! Very helpful episode 🙂🙂
Amazing information love it
Thanks for the advice.
Very nice video and all the information was great. God bless you and all your family brother
Wood boiler works good too. It heats my house and garage and runs the hot water as well. I can fill it at 10pm on a winter night and not have to touch it until about lunch the next day
Just an opion on 3 ideas for heating: pellet stoves -- limited fuel choices to burn and at the mercy of the market. Real wood burners let you burn everything from junk mail, pallets, trees, etc. Kerosene; expensive [market] and smell. Not sure why gasoline prices have gone way down, but kerosene hasn't budged in my area. Still over $4/gallon. Propane catalytic heaters, very efficient, adjustable and ok with small spaces. Yes, I said at the mercy of the market, but some fuels are more reactive to market conditions faster than other fuels. Just some thoughts.
how about using charcoal in a woodstove ?
no smoke and burns for a long even heat ?
Great info, wish I knew this when I built my house. I really wanted in-floor radiant heating but my builder and I couldn't come up with a suitable option and my house is now built. I have the propane heater you showed but it needs help with the temperature drops below -15*. I love the idea of the solar heating. and the HRV. I wonder if either is hard to do once the house is already built.
A propane combi boiler is another brilliant option. Instant hot water and central heating and it fits in a kitchen cupboard.
I would say look into the diesel heaters like the ones they have for vans. You can get the 1200 name brand or the cheap eBay ones that have good reviews. It puts out a dry heat.
Very informative....thanks!
Self feed pellet wood stove ,i think be good resource to use as well as the solar and wind electric heating
that was wounderfuly usefull !
Thank you very much for this video. It was very informational and helped me a great deal when it comes to picking a hesting unit for my house. It made me subscribe haha Thanks again!
Can you buy multiple solar radiant heaters?
Very helpful information! Thank u! What about a mini split, that gives ac and heat, what are ur thoughts about those?
really interesting, informative and useful
Air source Heat pump - mini-split would take a bit more space, jet use 1/3 of a resistive heater.
South facing, wider angled triple glazed low e Windows could help as well.
Helps to talk about climate minus 40 degrees or 32 degrees. Need to calculate cost of unit and ten year fuel cost combined that includes climate
It depends on hyow tiney your house is, but if it's too tiny, a wood stove is not a good option since it will severly limit the already limited space. You need to keep a certain distance from the wall & combustibles.
Excellent video - very clearly explained - thank you so much. Would love more videos like this. Maybe one on solar?
Thanks for summarizing these heating options for small spaces. Kinda sad though you didn't talk about infrared heating.
wonderful video .... a comparison of cost of operation would also have been helpful
Great video, very informative.
An informational and well-organized rundown on heating modalities for tiny homes. I was hoping to see something about hydronic radiant floor heating.
Direct vent propane is like burning dollar bills. Buy unvented. Electric is the most expensive. Cheapest thing is super insulation.
There's also pellet boilers for heating the air AND also for heating your water.
There are a couple of more Cons for having a Wood Stove....1.is that insurance would be harder to find. 2. Creosote build-up that could result in a chimney fire. 3. in general your tiny house will need to be cleaned more often.
Both the chimney and the house will require regular cleaning.
yeah... right. just TRY to get 'insurance' on a tiny home. The wood stove does not matter and you just don't tell them....but you generally dont even TRY to get insurance on a tiny home.
Thanks for informing us for the many options...thanks!
Haven’t been able to find one so I guess there isn’t a stove that will burn both wood and propane but either a wood or propane stove that you can also run a water line through to do a radiant floor heating system as well as add on a solar water heater which is pretty much just like the solar air heater that would give you multiple ways of heating your home. Add an insulated drum of water to the system for thermal mass or even better if you’re gonna be still for long enough make a compost heater either which would allow you to leave the house for your periods of time without having to worry about pipes freezing. With a little bit of ingenuity and some connectors to connect into the radiant heating system any decent heat source could be used to provide the heat. You could even plumb into a recirculating hot water heater for when you’re plugged in. Course I never tried any of this its just a combination of that ideas from green houses as well as hot tub‘s and aquaponics systems don’t ask me about a budget but I think that would work what do you guys think
and a video about wall/window thickness & insulation would be good
I've never heard of a solar air heater-- looks like an amazing option!!!
PROPANE: also do not forget a insulated thermal blanket to wrap around the tank in cold climates as tank sits outside?
What if the construction is concrete and cement?
Great video. Please do a video with Cooling Options for Summer Living! Looking for suggestions for a system (or systems) that will work in both extreme climates.
the wall mounted propane heaters also come in heating/cooling units that can be run off propane or electric.
Fantastically helpful video!
build right. need foundation in cold climate. build per ''passive solar rules'' 4- 6'' foam 4x8ft sheets. foiled back, poly sheets both sides. attach outside of frame , wall and roof. much heat is lost thru 2x4 or 2x6 '' framing. ......double pained windows. . wood stove, should do it .
Great info. Thank you for the video.
Very informational, thanks!
Great information and what about water floor heating
Make a video review on tiny house insulation options?
Omggg thank youuu! Been looking for a video like this for sooo long
So if someone is living in the foothills of NC and wanted in floor heating, prefers the house temperature between 65 maybe even as high as 68........... Would this be a good option?
Insulate pipes.
With photovoltaic cells and a small windmill it should be possible to heat a tiny home. I think it don't make sense to use fossil energy for a new build house.
I just bought a house build 1920 with 300m2 space to live. I insulate the roof, new windows and heat it with a mix of solar, wind and wood. The invest for this mix to heat the house and water lay around 30 td EU. renewable energies are the future for me and my family.