Interesting idea. With a well, you'd have water at about 50 deg, right? Certainly not as much heat as water flowing from a boiler, but with sufficient volume, I wonder if it would work? I'm sure you could pump quite a bit of well water for less than the cost of the fuel to run a boiler.
It depends on where he is, where I am frost level is about 3ft down and - 22f at a max, 50f water might not make it before it froze.I think hiring a kid with a shovel has to be cheaper.
around here few kids will shovel, and those who do want a fortune, after my slip and fall accident i tried to hire some to shovel my 12 by 50 foot front flat driveway. with 3 inches of snow kids averaged 60 to 75 bucks, nice soft lightweight snow. a guy with a plow wanted 125 bucks.heard later kids quote 1/2 of plow cost
if initially installed properly the underside of thje slab is insulated with foam, so heat is directed upwards.
this is the ideal use for a dedicated tankless water heater, filled with anti freeze and circulated by a pump.
ask some neighbors, if theres is heated they may be able to refer someone.
no doubt the person being foreclosed upon soldf everything of value they could in the home.
around here they strip all the copper water lines and sometimes even the wire. homes look likew a bomb hit afterward.
scrap prices have dropped a lot,
I remember putting a miller furnace in my garage. The air it sucked in was so cold that it could never put out any heat, or at least not in a reasonable amount of time. I wasn't about to leave it on all the time so it could have warm air to heat.
The driveway only needs to be above freezing DURING a snow to melt the flakes as they fall. How often does it snow? After the driveway is dry the heat can be turned off again.
That's why they make salt and sand.
And 4wd with snow tires.
But inertia is involved. You need to start pumping in heat quite a while before the snowfall to get the slab up to temp. Then keep it operating for some days to allow for drifting/snow blowing off the roof or trees/etc.
Check with a plumbing company which does steam heating. If it is a closed system and the water gets above boiling, steam will be created and there could be an explosion! Need a high temperature / high pressure relief valve.
Then you might want some sort of anti-freeze solution in the pipes in case you choose to leave it off. But you would not want this solution flowing back into your house water supply!
And pipes leak. Would need to keep it full of water/fluid. Need an indicator to see how much water is in system.
Heated water/fluid expands when it heats. Need an expansion tank.
You can heat with solar, swimming pool heater, multiple electric water heaters, natural gas/oil boilers, or wood burning "OWB" boiler.
Then need a pump to circulate the warm/hot water.
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Why heat the great outdoors in a trailer park, ransley? You do like to dream though, dont you? Bubba
re: Possibly a friend might be able to help, at least get more ideas.
Not sure why you would suggest he ask "*a* friend" when he just essentially asked hundreds (thousands?) by posting his question here.
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You drinkin again bubbass, what no customers during the day of heating season turn ons, Or are you on drugs again, well at least you confrim yr an asshole, I wonder how many potential clients stay away from heating guys with the name Bubba.
Why would it get above boiling? Home heating systems reach 180 and a high limit switch turns off the burner. Same thing with an indirect fired water heater and glycol. You set the desired temperature on an aquastat.
Expansion, yes; explosion, no.
Water can get above boiling if you have a do-it-yourself job and a product like the following which is a coil which goes into a woodstove...
These systems run anti-freeze, not water. Get it done properly or the tubing will burst, I heat my garage floor with water and never had a freeze up, but a driveway would have to be on glycol. A neighbor down the street has a heated driveway, he still has to shovel so I'm not so sure they are worth it in the upper midwest. But maybe in the lower midwest they would be just the ticket.
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