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[Hoist!]

Well, it's snowing again in the NE. In NYC it's a crappy combination of snow and hail, the hardest to melt. I wanted to take some shots and show you folks how a Radiant Snowmelting System operates. I have my entire property heated with underground piping (like a radiant heated floor) and a sophisticated system I designed to support it! Here's some pics of what it looks like working! Don't get jealous, with all the toys you guys have, think about this one. I haven't shoveled in years! Hoist!

First, the snow everywhere else.

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My sidewalk in relation to my neighbor's.

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Shots of my property

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Last one. My driveway from the other direction. My bikes never get stuck in my garage! Ever!

[djkak]

Well, it's snowing again in the NE....I haven't shoveled in years! Hoist!

That looks like a great system, Hoist. I’ll bet she really pulls the BTU’s out of your boiler. Is it expensive to run, or do you just burn your neighbors lawn furniture?

BTW, great looking place.

djkak

[Ceej]

That rocks, I was designing a future home of ours with Geothermal in mind and wondered about doing the same thing. Nothing worse than a 30 something sunny day in the winter with dry roads - perfect for a ride - but...an iced over driveway!! Great job and thanks for the pics! Enjoying sun here in michigan today but its in the 20's - I've already squeezed in 300 miles this week in full gear. We had a warm snap last week so things melted good enough that I've been running around in the 68 camaro the past few days enjoying the new engine and such that went in over the winter

[Chief]

With all that concrete, you must own a riding pressure washer. Probably chrome too. 

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That looks like a great system, Hoist. I’ll bet she really pulls the BTU’s out of your boiler. Is it expensive to run, or do you just burn your neighbors lawn furniture?

BTW, great looking place.

djkak

Hey dj, thanks man. I have (3) 140,000 BTU Hi-efficiency Condensing boilers piped in parallel in a common loop. These low-temp boilers also provide for my heating (radiant, of course) and Domestic HW requirements. Cost is a relative thing. I would say, with the price of NG these days, it runs about $20-$30 per storm, depending on the amount of snowfall. I designed the system for 2"/hr at 0 deg F and 50 MPH winds. Emergency and critical area design for this area! With the money I save heating my house and Dom HW this way, I basically don't use any more gas than before I installed this system. My heating bill was cut in half. So, the snowmelting is basically free, based on my old high-mass, 1-pipe steam/C.I.radiator system! It's a fairly pricey install, but isn't my back worth it?! Hoist!

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With all that concrete, you must own a riding pressure washer. Probably chrome too. 

No, just a push along one Chief! Sears, not chrome! I did all my property in Masonry to accomodate the snowmelting system. A small 15x20 patch of lawn in the yard is useless. So it's all Masonry now! I have use of the entire property since we made the entire yard a stone patio! The only part that's not, is the front lawn and an 18" wide strip along the patio for a small garden. Hoist!

[jeffj]

Kewl system, I always say "my next house I will do something similar" well haven't in the last 2 homes

Since moving to Iowa and getting back into snow removal, I really wish I had a similar system even more

My three car driveway seems like a Walmart parking lot, sure glad I bought the 2stage snow blower

I liked your pictures of your place 


jeffj

[twincam]

hey Howie, the low here today is 53 the high is...........93!!!!!!!

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That rocks, I was designing a future home of ours with Geothermal in mind and wondered about doing the same thing.  Great job and thanks for the pics! Enjoying sun here in michigan today but its in the 20's - I've already squeezed in 300 miles this week in full gear. We had a Nothing worse than a 30 something sunny day in the winter with dry roads - perfect for a ride - but...an iced over driveway!!warm snap last week so things melted good enough that I've been running around in the 68 camaro the past few days enjoying the new engine and such that went in over the winter

Thanks ceej, that's what led me to start thinking about doing it. One year we were away and got a big snow storm. I came home a week later to 6"H of ice covering my entire driveway. It took 3 weeks before i could get rid of all of it. That was it for me. So when I renovated the house 3 years ago, I decided to put in this State-of-the-Art Low-Mass Hydronic Radiant System. Indoors and out. One system takes care of everything. I have the outside isolated by a plate-and-frame heat exchanger, with propylene-glycol on the outside, heated by the boiler water on the inside! It's a very sophisticated system with a DDC automatic control system operating everything! How's that for OCD! Hoist!