I'd love to make a true walipini someday.this one is a bit of a hybrid - not being totally bermed in. I have sketches for one I'd like to try to make someday though, and a site where it'd fit too
Thanks! I'm happy with how it turned out! 😄 A lot of work, but well spent. It's a nice place to work in the winter too. I was butchering a couple of chickens in there yesterday. Not a great job to do indoors with all the feathers, but too cold outside now.
Good question. No, I'd imagine that any composting heat being added to the system is quite minimal. I experimented a bit with composting in there, but found that the fruit flies that invariably found their way to the pile wasn't worth having to deal with. So I just keep all my composting outside in a pile on the ground that worms come to and go from as they please.
@@PraxisPrepperWhy not flush black water disposal waste in the cold sink trench full of peat, hay, wood chips and manure to make topsoil and heat water hose underneath?
@@Wolverine_Workout Been there. Done that. ruclips.net/video/BU8FbPrGeTM/видео.html That was at my last place. I'd def like to get back into doing it again at my new place too. That's a LOT of organic nutrients to take advantage of if done properly!
It’s a greenhouse so sunlight is mostly warming that area, at least when the sun is shining, you probably have a thermal mass absorbing peak heat and radiating it at night, perhaps the concrete wall unless you have a separate thermal mass, do you have a cubic metre chunk of granite painted matte black in there outside the field of the camera and in direct sunlight ?
Given that this is a greenhouse, I didn't think it was worth mentioning sunlight as a vector for heat. I presumed that one was obvious. Having run this greenhouse both with and without hot gray water being added to it, I can say from experience that the heat in the water makes a big difference in keeping it above 32F.
Wow! Now THAT is some stalking-level attention to detail there! ;) Yeah, I moved it there because it can disperse better across the greenhouse. It's more central now. It's actually a bit of a trick getting the slopes just right for broad dispersal... And the worms keep messing my slopes up!
I really like the greenhouse and the method of using your gray water, very inspiring. Also the thermal camera is a nice toy, and don't get me wrong I am a lover of gadgets. Still this is one of those things that come under the heading of luxury item, something only the very well prepped should really consider as the best use of limited resources. While not as cool, you could use a standard IR temperature gun to do the same thing, though a little more work. When you designed your home did you make any provision to dump waste heat from the attic down into the greenhouse, ie is the system passive/ active or straight passive? Have you considered doing water storage in the space as well as a both a preheater of water in the summer and an active source of thermal mass as well.
Our attic pumps down to the tunnels under our floor to transfer the heat down into the slab. The exhaust air from the air exchanger does dump to one of the two greenhouses we have, but not the one pictured in this video. Waste not want not.
@@charlescoffey9523 Yeah, there's so much food and energy wasted all around the world every day that if we just got on top of that, we'd have more than enough of both for everyone... although the reality is that whatever we would save through smart planning, people would just find new ways of using/wasting and then they'd be back where they started again.
@@PraxisPrepper I wish I did not agree but I do though I do think the problem is solvable. All it would really require is a firm dedication to individual responsibility in a civilization. This means teaching that as a moral concept from the time children are small and expecting it from all competent adults. I think most of those we term preppers follow the standard of the old Sinatra song, "I did it my way" , alas for most, life is someone else's fault up to and including God. We have all had evil done to us by someone, yet in my own life, I know that no matter the challenge, everything I have both screwed up and succeeded in was because I did it my way and was totally my responsibility. I am certain you see it the same way, which is one of the reasons I follow your channel.
@@charlescoffey9523 There are TONS of ideas that I believe to be true that I (like you mentioned of yourself) wish were not true. ;) I agree with you on the solutions to this issue as well. It's only possible to solve this from the bottom up by teaching responsibility to our children and to then have faith in them to make good decisions.
Well, I don't think I would want to have my washing machine attached to this system because, if I were to use the sanitary cycle (which I do for towels, underwear and non-wool socks), the water is 176 degrees when it comes out of the machine! Now I know it would cool somewhat since it is so cold here in the winter, but I bet it would still be too hot. Maybe there could be some type of diverting mechanism put in place to send the super hot water to the septic but the rest to the greenhouse?
I always wash with cold water, but you bring up a real factor. For me personally, I just dump water out there and what grows will gorw and what doesn't want to grow, wont. 175F water would probably leave a fair sized dead zone around the outlet though. If it were dumped into a large basin with crushed stone, that could help to blunt the temp spike. I actually DO have a diversion valve hooked up so if I wnted to I could switch the water back into the septic system. I use these really reliable valves called Jandy valves. I've installed a number of them over the years and they've never leaked on me.
I take "no user serviceable parts" as an insult to my capacity for learning and a personal challenge. I have "repaired" hundreds of items which would have been sent to a landfill. Just in the last month, a cell phone, an oven/range, two table lamps, a laptop, a furnace, a water heater, a commercial coffee brewer, a window air conditioner, a car tire pressure monitoring system receiver, a clothes dryer I'm sure I'm forgetting a few others and tomorrow I'll add a refrigerator. To replace or have "professional" repair of all that works have been $5000 or more and a huge pile of waste to the dump. I can guarantee that an equivalent battery can be easily had for only a few percent the cost of the device and, at most, a screwdriver and a little soldering to swap it.
Yeah, I'd imagine it's possible. No screws to get into the housing though. Would need to cut one's way in. I'm typing this sitting next to a toasty warm fire... You still win with the beach though!
@@MosaicHomestead A "true" prepper would not buy one, he would grind down a piece of steel with nothing but a rock, then build a blacksmith forge with bellows air to force the temperature up and use that. LOL, sorry just could not help myself, I have a low sense of humor.
Oh I should add, if it turns out you have a thermal camera you are just tossing out due to battery failure, please consider sending it to me or even just give it to someplace like a goodwill, rather than the landfill. Those batteries can be replaced, it is just not easy to do so or while not as convenient they can be used with an external supply, in which case it could been incorporated as a part of your local security system as an IR monitor. I hate the thought of good electronics in the trash.
Finally a Walipini Video, every Off Grid Homesteader needs it.
I'd love to make a true walipini someday.this one is a bit of a hybrid - not being totally bermed in. I have sketches for one I'd like to try to make someday though, and a site where it'd fit too
@@PraxisPrepperBuilding a Walipini Earthship Barn that will house and feed livestock. Using a Hydroponic Barley Fodder Feeder.
@@PraxisPrepperBuilding a Walipini Earthship Barn that will house and feed livestock. With a Hydroponic Barley Fodder Feeder Tray.
That greenhouse IS a beauty!😍Well done Praxis💕
Thanks! I'm happy with how it turned out! 😄 A lot of work, but well spent. It's a nice place to work in the winter too. I was butchering a couple of chickens in there yesterday. Not a great job to do indoors with all the feathers, but too cold outside now.
@eliciac9 taking notes.
That's the idea of my sharing the videos. I'm always happy to share my successes so they can be copied and my failures so they can be avoided.
Thanks Praxis
Always happy to share! :)
Wow! That has come a long way since I saw your last video about it! Looks great!
Yeah, the green really livens the place up a lot. Thanks! :)
Thanks for this. Buying our property soon and year round greenhouse (in Iowa) is a priority.
Nice job
Thanks!
Great info
Glad you liked it!
@PraxisPrepper the hot water comming out looked cool. I need to use my scope to look at my house. Thanks
May i ask if you have or may do a Hydrothermal Compost Tea Radiator inside a wormbin to a mist or sprinkler?
Good question. No, I'd imagine that any composting heat being added to the system is quite minimal. I experimented a bit with composting in there, but found that the fruit flies that invariably found their way to the pile wasn't worth having to deal with. So I just keep all my composting outside in a pile on the ground that worms come to and go from as they please.
@@PraxisPrepperWhy not flush black water disposal waste in the cold sink trench full of peat, hay, wood chips and manure to make topsoil and heat water hose underneath?
@@Wolverine_Workout Been there. Done that. ruclips.net/video/BU8FbPrGeTM/видео.html
That was at my last place. I'd def like to get back into doing it again at my new place too. That's a LOT of organic nutrients to take advantage of if done properly!
It’s a greenhouse so sunlight is mostly warming that area, at least when the sun is shining, you probably have a thermal mass absorbing peak heat and radiating it at night, perhaps the concrete wall unless you have a separate thermal mass, do you have a cubic metre chunk of granite painted matte black in there outside the field of the camera and in direct sunlight ?
Given that this is a greenhouse, I didn't think it was worth mentioning sunlight as a vector for heat. I presumed that one was obvious. Having run this greenhouse both with and without hot gray water being added to it, I can say from experience that the heat in the water makes a big difference in keeping it above 32F.
You moved the pot, is it better over that side ?
Wow! Now THAT is some stalking-level attention to detail there! ;)
Yeah, I moved it there because it can disperse better across the greenhouse. It's more central now. It's actually a bit of a trick getting the slopes just right for broad dispersal... And the worms keep messing my slopes up!
@@PraxisPrepper And you thought that the drones were just in NY 😈
@Lee_Proffit New JERSEY Lee. And you call yourself an American... or Britt. ;)
@@PraxisPrepper CBS report NY as well.
British from the original England
I really like the greenhouse and the method of using your gray water, very inspiring. Also the thermal camera is a nice toy, and don't get me wrong I am a lover of gadgets. Still this is one of those things that come under the heading of luxury item, something only the very well prepped should really consider as the best use of limited resources. While not as cool, you could use a standard IR temperature gun to do the same thing, though a little more work. When you designed your home did you make any provision to dump waste heat from the attic down into the greenhouse, ie is the system passive/ active or straight passive? Have you considered doing water storage in the space as well as a both a preheater of water in the summer and an active source of thermal mass as well.
Our attic pumps down to the tunnels under our floor to transfer the heat down into the slab. The exhaust air from the air exchanger does dump to one of the two greenhouses we have, but not the one pictured in this video. Waste not want not.
@@PraxisPrepper Isn't good planning wonderful, if everyone was able to do the same, we would not have energy problems
@@charlescoffey9523 Yeah, there's so much food and energy wasted all around the world every day that if we just got on top of that, we'd have more than enough of both for everyone... although the reality is that whatever we would save through smart planning, people would just find new ways of using/wasting and then they'd be back where they started again.
@@PraxisPrepper I wish I did not agree but I do though I do think the problem is solvable. All it would really require is a firm dedication to individual responsibility in a civilization. This means teaching that as a moral concept from the time children are small and expecting it from all competent adults. I think most of those we term preppers follow the standard of the old Sinatra song, "I did it my way" , alas for most, life is someone else's fault up to and including God. We have all had evil done to us by someone, yet in my own life, I know that no matter the challenge, everything I have both screwed up and succeeded in was because I did it my way and was totally my responsibility. I am certain you see it the same way, which is one of the reasons I follow your channel.
@@charlescoffey9523 There are TONS of ideas that I believe to be true that I (like you mentioned of yourself) wish were not true. ;)
I agree with you on the solutions to this issue as well. It's only possible to solve this from the bottom up by teaching responsibility to our children and to then have faith in them to make good decisions.
Well, I don't think I would want to have my washing machine attached to this system because, if I were to use the sanitary cycle (which I do for towels, underwear and non-wool socks), the water is 176 degrees when it comes out of the machine! Now I know it would cool somewhat since it is so cold here in the winter, but I bet it would still be too hot. Maybe there could be some type of diverting mechanism put in place to send the super hot water to the septic but the rest to the greenhouse?
I always wash with cold water, but you bring up a real factor. For me personally, I just dump water out there and what grows will gorw and what doesn't want to grow, wont. 175F water would probably leave a fair sized dead zone around the outlet though. If it were dumped into a large basin with crushed stone, that could help to blunt the temp spike. I actually DO have a diversion valve hooked up so if I wnted to I could switch the water back into the septic system. I use these really reliable valves called Jandy valves. I've installed a number of them over the years and they've never leaked on me.
I'm watching this video on the beach ⛱️, 😂, you can probably change the battery, just find one that meets the specs.
I take "no user serviceable parts" as an insult to my capacity for learning and a personal challenge.
I have "repaired" hundreds of items which would have been sent to a landfill. Just in the last month, a cell phone, an oven/range, two table lamps, a laptop, a furnace, a water heater, a commercial coffee brewer, a window air conditioner, a car tire pressure monitoring system receiver, a clothes dryer I'm sure I'm forgetting a few others and tomorrow I'll add a refrigerator.
To replace or have "professional" repair of all that works have been $5000 or more and a huge pile of waste to the dump.
I can guarantee that an equivalent battery can be easily had for only a few percent the cost of the device and, at most, a screwdriver and a little soldering to swap it.
Yeah, I'd imagine it's possible. No screws to get into the housing though. Would need to cut one's way in. I'm typing this sitting next to a toasty warm fire... You still win with the beach though!
@matthewellisor5835 I'm always fixing things and building from junk, that reminds me, I have to buy a new soldering iron.
@PraxisPrepper You can get details on where battery is at and cut carefully, extract battery an find a new one, might be a 1080 battery.
@@MosaicHomestead A "true" prepper would not buy one, he would grind down a piece of steel with nothing but a rock, then build a blacksmith forge with bellows air to force the temperature up and use that. LOL, sorry just could not help myself, I have a low sense of humor.
Oh I should add, if it turns out you have a thermal camera you are just tossing out due to battery failure, please consider sending it to me or even just give it to someplace like a goodwill, rather than the landfill. Those batteries can be replaced, it is just not easy to do so or while not as convenient they can be used with an external supply, in which case it could been incorporated as a part of your local security system as an IR monitor. I hate the thought of good electronics in the trash.
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