In-Floor Heating, Off The Grid

Today’s exciting news is that we finally finished our in-floor heating project… and it worked! We knew from the get-go that electric heating wouldn’t be an option; the average space heater runs on 1500 watts, which means that our giant Yeti 3000 battery could only run one for 2 hours. Another solution was needed.

The simple version of our in-floor heating system is: a 12-volt circulating pump (which plugs into our Yeti battery) is immersed in a one-gallon steel reservoir, which pumps hot water from the reservoir through 2 tubing runs that wind through the floor. After pumping the hot water through the floor, the cold water returns to a steel coil which immersed in hot coals, which fills the reservoir with hot water again and the hot water begins its journey once more.

Tune in to today’s episode to learn more about how we built our DIY off-the-grid in-floor heating system, pros and cons, suggestions and recommendations, and more!