Are you going to use the exhaust heat as well? I can imagine routing the exhaust into the crawl space could add a bit of floor heating at no additional cost. It might even persuade the furry friends to find other accommodation.
@@Chris-yy7qc Usually a crawlspace is closed off from the living section of the house. I'm not talking about the cellar, a crawlspace is the appr. two feet between the foundation and the first floor. Usually there's a sealed hatch to the water- and/or gas meter that gives access to the crawlspace, immediately after the front door. There are often vents in the brickwork that allow air in and out, exhaust gasses will be blown out eventually. The advantage is that the warm gasses add a bit of residual heat to the concrete floor, before they are vented into the atmosphere.
@@Chris-yy7qc Usually a crawlspace is closed off from the living section of the house. I'm not talking about the cellar, a crawlspace is the about two feet between the foundation and the first floor. Usually there's a sealed hatch to the water- and/or gas meter that gives access to the crawlspace, immediately after the front door. There are often vents in the brickwork that allow air in and out, exhaust fumes will be blown out eventually. The advantage is that the warm fumes add a bit of residual heat to the ground floor, before they are vented out.
@@arthurswart4436 A crawlspace is not airtight by any means. Its not designed to be and small cracks will naturally form when the house ages. Injecting toxic exhaust gas into a crawlspace is just a hidious idea.
@@Chris-yy7qc Very well, I'm not a builder. Just thought it would be an idea to use the heat in the exhaust fumes. Guess someone else has to figure that one out.
I wouldnt advise using a garden box made from highly flammable plastic. If something goes wrong inside the heater, that box will burn like a christmas tree. Then taking moist outside air and shoving it into the house is really the worst thing you can do. When the air cools down at night all this moisture will condense. And thats how you grow mold.
It looks like the end of air in take is big round black filter sitting in the outside box so pulling in the cold outside air. I wonder if more efficient if you pull air from air intake from inside the house by running that black air in take tube into the house. May require another hole in wall but seems to me that would take more energy to heat up the cold outside air,
Taking moist outside air and shoving it into the house is really the worst thing you can do. When the air cools down at night all this moisture will condense. And thats how you grow mold.
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what kind of pipe did you use to isolate the heat inside the wall. thanks.
Are you going to use the exhaust heat as well? I can imagine routing the exhaust into the crawl space could add a bit of floor heating at no additional cost. It might even persuade the furry friends to find other accommodation.
And then having the exhaust fumes leak into the house?
@@Chris-yy7qc Usually a crawlspace is closed off from the living section of the house. I'm not talking about the cellar, a crawlspace is the appr. two feet between the foundation and the first floor. Usually there's a sealed hatch to the water- and/or gas meter that gives access to the crawlspace, immediately after the front door. There are often vents in the brickwork that allow air in and out, exhaust gasses will be blown out eventually. The advantage is that the warm gasses add a bit of residual heat to the concrete floor, before they are vented into the atmosphere.
@@Chris-yy7qc Usually a crawlspace is closed off from the living section of the house. I'm not talking about the cellar, a crawlspace is the about two feet between the foundation and the first floor. Usually there's a sealed hatch to the water- and/or gas meter that gives access to the crawlspace, immediately after the front door. There are often vents in the brickwork that allow air in and out, exhaust fumes will be blown out eventually. The advantage is that the warm fumes add a bit of residual heat to the ground floor, before they are vented out.
@@arthurswart4436 A crawlspace is not airtight by any means. Its not designed to be and small cracks will naturally form when the house ages.
Injecting toxic exhaust gas into a crawlspace is just a hidious idea.
@@Chris-yy7qc Very well, I'm not a builder. Just thought it would be an idea to use the heat in the exhaust fumes. Guess someone else has to figure that one out.
I wouldnt advise using a garden box made from highly flammable plastic. If something goes wrong inside the heater, that box will burn like a christmas tree.
Then taking moist outside air and shoving it into the house is really the worst thing you can do. When the air cools down at night all this moisture will condense. And thats how you grow mold.
Interesting. So its fine to suck outside air and heat it up? You didnt want to try recirculating the house air?
It looks like the end of air in take is big round black filter sitting in the outside box so pulling in the cold outside air. I wonder if more efficient if you pull air from air intake from inside the house by running that black air in take tube into the house. May require another hole in wall but seems to me that would take more energy to heat up the cold outside air,
Taking moist outside air and shoving it into the house is really the worst thing you can do. When the air cools down at night all this moisture will condense. And thats how you grow mold.
Too loud.