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Using a House's Concrete Foundation To Cool a PC

Posted by timothy on from the thinking-deeper-than-built-in-cable-drops dept.

Agg writes "Well the slab gets poured on Wednesday so I thought I would sink 6 meters of copper pipe in the slab so that I can run my water loop through it when the house is finished. I hope to have water year round at about 16deg [about 61F]. No need for radiators or fans with chilled water coming straight out of the slab!"

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  1. Resale value of house? by jawtheshark · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How are you going to explain that if you want to sell that house???

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    1. Re:Resale value of house? by Cmdr-Absurd · · Score: 4, Insightful

      How are you going to explain that if you want to sell that house???

      Call it radiant floor heating?

    2. Re:Resale value of house? by Goaway · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I don't know about you, but if I buy or make something, it's for me. I'm not there to take care of it for the next owners. If I wanted that, I'd rent.

  2. Why Stop at Concrete? by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you were pouring the concrete, why didn't you put it outside of the concrete? You would probably incur less structural risk ... although I doubt a pipe that small would have much effect. More and more people are building new houses with geothermal exchange to help mitigate costs in heating and cooling.

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  3. Re:Sell it? Get it past inspectors by lwsimon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, that 6m of copper tubing will probably make the house explode, right?

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