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Comfy Homestead
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 20 ก.พ. 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.
Building a Big Custom Closet for My Daughter | Step-by-Step Transformation
Today, we’re building a brand new closet for my 5-year-old daughter. The closet will have 5 custom sections: 2 for hanging clothes, 2 with shelves, and a middle section with shelves and a small vanity area.
I’m using 18mm pre-finished birch plywood for the sections and solid birch for the face frames, finished with a clear coat for a clean, natural look. The height of the closet will be 93 inches, with varying depths based on section placement.
Watch the full transformation and get inspired for your own DIY projects! 😊✨
I’m using 18mm pre-finished birch plywood for the sections and solid birch for the face frames, finished with a clear coat for a clean, natural look. The height of the closet will be 93 inches, with varying depths based on section placement.
Watch the full transformation and get inspired for your own DIY projects! 😊✨
มุมมอง: 77
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Adjusting Sliding Doors
มุมมอง 290ปีที่แล้ว
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
Installing a whole house water filter and water softener system
มุมมอง 31Kปีที่แล้ว
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
มุมมอง 3.3Kปีที่แล้ว
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
มุมมอง 778ปีที่แล้ว
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
มุมมอง 3.6Kปีที่แล้ว
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
มุมมอง 69Kปีที่แล้ว
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
มุมมอง 11K2 ปีที่แล้ว
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
มุมมอง 6K2 ปีที่แล้ว
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
มุมมอง 6602 ปีที่แล้ว
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
มุมมอง 5992 ปีที่แล้ว
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...
Did you use a 3 phase motor in your system?
I watched many videos in preparation for the infloor heating of my basement. Your video is the best among the videos I watched. You have listed the materials. Any possibility to get the name, model and places to buy those components? Any reason to use 3/4" PEX vs 1/2" PEX. I live in Calgary, AB. Thank you for the amazing video.
What is the model of the “switch relay” thermostat controller?
8 zones but 1 thermostat.... how does that work? how do you control temperature in the entire house from a single point?
Cleanest looking system I have seen.
Research for more than an hour.. lol. Wrong pipe. Deadspace. Useless colored tubing as it's again, not even the right type..
why didnt you mention swapping the manifolds?
Always pump away from your expansion tank.
Great video Mykola. Would you be able to share the parts list? Maybe here or via email if that's easier?
why are the feed and return lines a diff color? I thought it's supposed to be a loop with no couplings? Or are the couplings above the floor?
Awesome build. Think I’ll do this for my son. Ohh! Perhaps for myself 😂😂😂
Nice job explaining all the components, I followed this setup, the only problem I have with my heating system is connecting the Taco 1 zone switching relay. Can you tell me if the relay is connected to the heating source or just the pump? Thank you for advise
I want to install this system but my pre-plumbing has a drain pipe connecting directing into the water supply line, what am i supposed to do with the drain line?
thank you! What pressure do you set the Expansion tank to?
what is the charge to install
You better be putting antifreeze in with the water with the power goes out same freezes cracks the floor
Co fusion g viseo
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?
Purge air from Its highest point. When no more air comes out oit and its mostly water, u good
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
No. If it doesn't filter "that", it isn't shortening the life of the filtration unit. A softener should be the last unit before entering your pipes.
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.