Turn excess attic heat into hotwater

Step 5: Never Fear!

Just make it bigger.

I added 150 feet of 3/4 copper tubing primered and painted to protect agaisnt corosion.

This doubled the original size of the experiment but it began transferring heat.

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[k_man93]

so... how exactly does your attic support all this weight?

[Senseless]

I framed the house with 2 x 6's and then covered all my walls with plywood, glued and nailed every 5 inches for hurricane production.  I centered the mass of this over a 5 by 7 laundry room lined with 3/4 inch plywood and extended well past that with even more 2 x 6's on one foot centers and glued and nailed more 3/4 plywood over it to act as a floor / base, plus that part of the attic is not trussed but framed by hand.

Regular trusses would not support this weight and it would fall though the attic floor...

The house isn't built like most stick houses, I went out of my weigh (no pun intended) to make it take a very high windload and can sleep right through a tropical storm without a creak.

It's like a bunch of shipping containers tied together to form the rooms on the main floor.

I forget the load a standard truss can support but it is well below the mass I have sitting up there.

Overall I used 7 bunks of plywood, bundles, and about 50 cases of liquid nails, then covered that with sheet rock so it appears like a normal wall inside and a side effect is that inside the house is extremely quiet even though I live 500 feet from an evacuation route, US 331.

You can hear the traffic in my vids done outside but not the ones done inside.

For a stick framed house it is very very stout.