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Excellent set up man, very impressive, you should be proud. I think I saw a motorhome in your video, do you travel much? I have sprinklers on my roof, but no way to start them when I’m out of town. Just curious if you have given ithat any thought?

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You are a genius

great stuff, thanks for sharing, the concrete hold downs are brilliant and in the KISS idea, simple easy and cheap, and effective as hell

unless they are made of metal with metal water pipes, they wont last 10 seconds with a forest fire a 100 feet from the house

I really like your system but to be really effective I think you would need some around the house spraying the walls as well. Should also be noted that embers can get in attic vents so people should have a way to close those off when there’s fire danger.

Im installing mine tomorrow ,we are a plumbing/carpentry family . I was running pex double crown side loop and the foam insulation [pool noodles] over the pex which keeps sun off . i was doing a loop so water preasure would be equal in the entire system .pex when it has water in it it cannot melt or burn .like a fire fighters hose laying in flames.i didnt plan on going through roof but was going to put a pole in a metal pipe or angle iron cemented into the ground and use that to connect my pex to for the horizontal bracing .i get a lot of snow here in bc canada kootenay area and we have a lot of trees . Thankyou for your video i find nobody is as smart as all of us and if we all use each others ideas we can come up with the best designs and a bit of tweeking .my gen i was going to make a 3 inch thick cement box with exhaust port and natural gas connection inside of house basement . comment getting long so cant go into too much details ,i do my best planning at night laying in bed before sleeping .lolo .id love to hear back on if your farthest sprinkler has less coverage than your closest 1 as it should as far what i know about piping water ? thanks ..Gene .

love the bed leveling idea. I've just been stuffing pieces of 2x4's under my bed to level it. lol.. well it's still easier than trying to park the van in a level spot

Great idea. Add a folding trailer hitch for ease of use.

The too close landscaping will create a radiant heat when burning that will vaporize the water coming out of your sprinkler system. I'd next focus on creating a defensible space of at least 100' with no landscaping. I know it's tough to get rid of beautiful landscaping but that is what determines if your house is going to burn or not. The sprinkler system is a panacea not a solution.

Some government official will turn up and turn this off if there's a fire- to reduce your carbon footprint. Nice work though!

I don't know much about this gentleman, but my guess is that he's an engineer.

I would like to see the #1 simplest, most economical way to connect the Wave 3 to a 16 oz propane canister, as I have many of them.

Nice work. I like to make stuff out of scrap too.

Great system. However, it looks like you could do more to protect your home during a wildfire. Your propane takes, for your generator, are too close to your home. During a fire you should move them to at least 30 feet from your home. You have a lot of trees and tall shrubs within 100 feet of your home. You should look at giving yourself more defensible space.

amazing

you should have a pump and accumulator tank

although it’s not really my style of decor, I really like the layout you did here. I imagine you have to sit on the toilet when you’re using the shower right? is it awkward to shower in that size space or does it work well for you?

I’d run that to a ground rod hooked to that copper pipe for lightning strikes. Of course where wild fires are the worse, lightning isn’t as much of a worry but we still get wildfires in lightning prone areas.

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Hi how has viewfinder hood performed over past year ? Would you make that steel bracket for me so I can have same setup?

This is amazing. Well done! Do you have the dimensions of your bed and bathroom?

Nice job, was wondering the total water flow rate? We can calculate the amount of energy it takes to phase change the water to vapour and from that work out what kind of fire power this can dissipate, assuming all the water went into cooling the house/garage and not miss. A fire break is the old fashioned tried and tested way to stop a wildfire reaching a house. Perhaps keep a chainsaw handy if there is a line of tall trees nearby as if a wall of fire gets a decent sized tree going each tree puts out a boatload of BTU. I would suspect tall tree fires puts out more BTU than a sprinkler can dissipate. But it did look like you only had some small shrub and short trees near you so probably not an issue. I guess this would do great keeping the house cool on hot days and if the ambient temperature was high due to a wild fire again it would do a great job keeping the house and roof cool from indirect heat. Does the roof water run off into the gutter or can it divert onto the land around you?

Is this setup cheaper than a metal roof?

We’re looking for a good systems that covers every aspect. After looking at this setup I see there’s a lot of thought, time and money put into this extravagant system. I do have a few concerns however. I watched a video of a cabin with a sprinkler. It had cameras set up to see how it fared in a wild fire. It didn’t do well. It still burned. Those wild fires roll through between 1200 to 2800+ degrees. The water from those yard sprinklers would evaporate. Fires also blow in to the sides. How would the sides of the house be kept from burning? And the fire proof cabinet, the whole purpose was defeated once the hole was cut for the fan and then having to keep the doors open during a fire. Why then even use such an expensive cabinet? Copper retains heat and gets really hot. I truly hope this system works. The set up is really nice but one thing I would change for sure is I would use agricultural hi-flow sprinkler to heavily douse everything including the space about 30-40ft around my house. Have a 1800gal tank for emergency water, will last 12 minutes with one sprinkler. Would douse everything if the fire is within a mile coming our way, turn it off so the tank can refill then turn it on again when the fire is closer. If need more water then use the pool water, about 12,000 gal. We need to decide on the medium to deliver the water. Not doing copper. We also need to decide where to put the sprinklers to get the roof and the sides of the house. Which sides would be most vulnerable. How to protect our sheds out of reach of the sprinkler. What are we willing to sacrifice if not able to wet…. lots to think about. Hopefully we can decide something before our house burns down. And hopefully it works.

Good setup. I've done a similar thing at my county home. I run the spriklers with a pump from a 1000 liter IBC tote that fills from my rain gutters or from my well if need be. When the sprinklers run, a fair percentage of the water recycles right back into my storage tote, thereby reducing the drain on my well.

I've been searching for sprinkler setups for our place, nice work you clearly put thought into it, thanks for sharing.

All that and you have trees over hsnging yor roof.. bushes surrounding the tank.. do you want a beautiful landscape or a house after a fire?? Not only the roof but under the roof needs protection.

Love your video! Going to basically have the same setup. Did you use the yellow propane tape on all your fittings? From what I understand you don't need it on the flaired connections. Do you believe you can over tighten the connections?

Awesome work! Can you “harden” the propane tanks too, as it looks like they’re exposed to fire.

Fantastic set up! I've been thinking about doing something for extra security but this is beyond my skill set. Someone needs to start a business installing these on homes. We don't know if it will help but we'll worth the investment

Man, you talk excruciatingly slow, I had to play the video at 1.75 speed to watch it. I did basically the same system except I pulled from the swimming pool and powered the pump off my roof top solar system. Note that I'm also got the sprinklers on a timer that spays the roof on hot days to cool by evaporation and so the attic is cooler and less energy gets used overall (so more is available to power the house. A couple of years ago my entire neighborhood burned BUT NOT MY HOUSE! since I set the sprinklers manually on before we evacuated (located north of LA)

Impressive copper work there .👍 I was going to say , why bother protecting the roof, then I saw the tar stuff. I’m in Aus and no one has roof material like that . Saying that, many people here still think it’s necessary to put sprinklers on a corrugated iron roof. I can’t see the point of that. It ain’t going to burn ! I think the next few years are going to be very nasty’ down under’ for fires. I’m planning on setting up a system. Good video. 👍

Very good job on everything. Thanks for sharing them.

Good job but......all that effort to protect a fire retardant roof while you have trees right next to the house? while the roof is being watered, that wooden trellis is likely to burn the place down. No amount of water will stop the firebrand from loading on top of that trellis. If you want to get serious, you'll have to tear down that trellis completely and get it out of the equation.

What is the weight capacity?

Nice DIY system! Hope you never have to use it but if so, you will be prepared! 🙂

What about the exterior walls? Are they protected?

Very nice. Very professionally done. No corners cut. Folks, a simple system like this can save your home.

Wow 78k is really low miles to start with

That r&r is no fun Would suggest to many to at least add a 1” body lift. Otherwise, accessing spark plugs is absolutely brutal due to west the frame rails is situated as compared to the motor 2” is better and aftermarket insulated better as is an improved trans mount refresh and new motor mounts

You should patent your invention.

I see you only used it on one side of the down tube. I’m think about using a 3/4 or 1 inch piece and putting it on both sides. I also added 2 additional rivnuts so there are 4 screws holding the battery bracket.

Is there any device can sensor sun heat to make the sprinkler automatically operate when sun heating?

super creative with the walker legs to level the bed

Magnets on any screen is never a good idea I’m afraid. And sticking things to a screen always ends 😅n tears

Love this!! Great job!!

Wonderful idea

nice work!

Man that is awesome engineering! Can't think of anything you missed in the entire system. Also, I thought it was hilarious, all the high dollar copper pipe and fittings, generator, fire cabinet, electric box to isolate power to your home and make the local grid safe for emergency workers and custom made reinforced cement roof hold down blocks.........then you made the roof boot from a cat food can! I think we'd get along great as neighbors lol, probably the same sense of humor.