Installing a Lake-Based Geothermal Heating System for My Garage

Installing a Geothermal Heat System That Uses the Lake to Extract Heat and Keep the Garage Warm
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00:00 - Intro, unloading the excavator
00:48 - Short explanation about the thermal heating I’m going to install
02:41 - Starting to excavate for the hose installation
16:11 - Receiving the hose and brine needed for installation
17:29 - Constructing a collector hose holder for the excavator
31:43 - Assembling a concrete mixer and making some test weights
43:01 - Making more weights from leftover concrete from the garage side walls
45:33 - Loading/unloading material for thermal heating onto the FH12 truck
47:32 - Using my hose holder and starting to install the collector hose
57:30 - Getting a boat for installation use
59:08 - Installing the collector hose in the lake
1:12:25 - Burying the collector hose
1:15:35 - Connecting the garage drainage system before winter arrives
1:19:53 - Using a skid steer to bury the hose
1:21:06 - My plan right now
1:21:35 - Loading concrete weights onto the boat
1:23:14 - Installing weights onto the collector hose in the water
1:25:25 - Swans coming in for a landing on the lake
1:25:50 - Installing more weights onto the collector hose in the water
1:27:43 - Constructing weights for the hose with the concrete mixer
1:30:53 - Buying higher boots
1:31:31 - Testing the hose for leaks
1:32:45 - Loading concrete weights onto the boat and installing them
1:38:36 - Hose pressure test
1:39:08 - Preparing brine liquid to be filled in the lake hose
1:42:23 - Filling the first hose with ethanol liquid
1:44:17 - Installing more concrete weights
1:51:26 - Pressure testing the other hose
1:51:57 - Filling ethanol into the other hose
1:54:41 - Fault searching the hose
2:02:57 - Welding a plastic PEM hose on the lake
2:08:44 - Filling that hose
2:09:18 - Backfilling the hose trench with the excavator
2:11:42 - Returning the boat
2:13:41 - Winter arrives
2:14:44 - A few months later
2:15:45 - Installing the heat pump inside my garage
3:11:24 - Total cost of my geothermal heating installation