I never got the lines insulated, so they never got buried. That meant that it wasn't a big deal to move them. I decided on a shorter more direct route that would leave less line outside, but would mean I had to cross the living room in the basement with them. That decided I bored two more holes through my foundation and fed the lines through. I used cpvc pipes to run up the outside of the house and the pex line inside.
That left insulating the pex on the outside of the house. I had decided last year that instead of buying the outrageously priced ThermoPex I was going to make my own. I bought 4 inch sewer pipe and used that to encase the lines. I first wrapped them in fiberglass insulation that I had cut into strips and secured with duct tape.
I got all the line wrapped and put in the pipes and the pipes put together.
So far they are just laying on top of the ground because I haven't got around the burring them yet. When I posted about doing this on Arborist.com last year I was told that I would have too much heat loss to make this a viable option. However, I don't think that this is going to be an issue because it snowed last night (it has been about 4 weeks since I composed the beginning lines of this post) and when I cam out this morning there was snow touching the pipe. The fact that there wasn't a few inches of bare ground around it like there was on the naked pipe means that I have made quite and improvement.
The final really big piece of my project was to build a building for my stove to go in. My natural aversion to spending money prevented me from just going out and buying one, though I did at least look into it. When a relative had his property bought out by a coal mine he told me that I could use whatever I could get out of an old machine shed I was in luck. I harvested a couple of sections of the side of the building to be the sides of my building. I decided that the easiest configuration to go with would be and A-frame since that wouldn't require me to build a room. At first I tried to do the math on what kind of angle I would need if I knew all the side lengths of a triangle but not any of the angles, but that led me into the territory of trigonometry, which I evidently haven't retained a working knowledge of. After failing to find the angles I decided that I would use hinges so that I could play with the angles, however I couldn't find any laying around. What I did have laying around was some main drive belts from the Claas combines that I work on. Cutting those into sections with a chainsaw I used them for hinges.
Using them actually worked really well. I not only used the pieces on the top, I also used them to attach the skids at the bottom. I then put braces towards the top of the frame to hold the angle.
One of the unforeseen benefits of doing this was that when I lifted the section of wall I had into place the flexibility of the belts allowed for certain inconsistencies in my carpentry skills. I attached the wall sections to the frame I had made, trying my best to get everything straight.
After getting the sides put on I decided that I should move it to it's final location before I put the front and back on. It took me three different plans to successfully find a way to pull the building without destroying it. I got it pulled next to the stove and then used my truck to set it over the top.
I got it in place and secured the tin where nails had come out and where I had replaced the boards. Since it was covered now I put more fiberglass insulation over it to replace the stuff that had been ruined by the weather.
With all that done I decided to bump my water temps up to 170 degrees from 150. Doing this made the heat coming out of our vents a little hotter and more pleasing. Over the next few weeks I am going to add a front and a back to the building and also an overflow water tank.