insulated pipe

[mmchris]

I was wondering whats the best insulated pipe is and if there is some that are the same, and where I can get it, and what the pice is per foot, this is for a outdoor wood boiler, Thanks Mark

 

[ericjeeper]

I made my own a whole lot cheaper

Buy a roll of 1 inch barrier pex from ebay. Then by the armorflex insulation slide it over each tube butt it tight. Then I used shrink wrap to tie the two tubes together, then I bought the 16 inch wide foil faced bubble wrap and laid the tubing on that like a hot dog on a bun then wrapped it.. and covered the entire length in shrink wrap. then shoved it all into a piece of non perforated 5 inch field tile. My tile is buried only 1 foot deep and the ground is frozen tight above it.

 

[ericjeeper]

photos

Here are some photos going from my house to my buried storage tank.

 

[Husky137]

I bought the thermopex from Central Boiler when I installed my OWB. A complete self contained system. Roll it out in the trench, hook up both ends, fill trench and never worry about it. Roughly $12.50 a foot, which seems pricey, but most of the DIY options run close to 8-9 a foot with a lot of extra masturbation.

 

[MS-310]

I sell MICROFLEX it loses about 1 deg every 100 ft, 11 bucks an foot. You get what you pay for. Its the way to go, drill 5" hole in your basement and run it up to the stove so you dont have an problems with water or any thing else.

 

[ericjeeper]

none the less

whatever you buy or make. Make sure that Both ends of the tile are sealed off from rainwater or ground water. I used a can of spray foam and bombed both ends as deep as I could to try to keep any groundwater out. Once you get groundwater within the tile. you are done. I had less than 4 dollars a foot in what I have encased in tile.which is only about 40 feet

 

[Fish4Brains]

I used a square styrofoam product. I think I had about 4 buck a foot into it
When its just below freezing the snow does melt on top of the pipe. Not sure about heat loss never measured it, Bought it local let me know if you want the contact info

 

[mmchris]

Thanks for the information, MS do you sell and ship to wisconsin, I look at your hose and where thinking about using that, We have about 400 feet of pipe in the ground now and where having all kinds of problems, they where insulated about 5 years ago and the ground now freezing above them, so where going to replace the hose and go from there, thanks

 

[MS-310]

Well it would cost you alot to ship so I can find an good dealer over there.... HOw many feet you need. IT comes in 328 feet rolls, is one run 400 feet?

 

[mmchris]

MS 310

Sure if you can give me a dealer over here that would be great, we didn't measure it out yet, but a 400 foot roll should work, thanks Mark

 

[Butch(OH)]

I used Urecon. About $8 per foot and the sweep 90 for the stove end was around $100. Once installed you pull 1" pex through the conduit. Expensive, but permemant and can pull in new pex if ever needed. I have not measured the loss in degrees because I have no way to do it but it must be next to nothing as I have absolutly no ground or snow thawing over the lines as some have noted here. A section is down below the stove in the pic.
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[woodfarmer]

what would happen if you just buried the lines below 4'?

 

[MS-310]

I should here back today where there is an dealer for Microflex in WI

Jack

 

[HOT SAW]

what would happen if you just buried the lines below 4'?

You wood have a owb that wood eat more wood than you could feed it,you could mow the lawn going from the owb to your house.

 

[MS-310]

mmchris,

Whats your zip code?

 

[mmchris]

MS-310

zip code is 54173