Finland is pretty good
How are you holding up in the -46 celcius (- 51 fahrenheit ) now ?Finland is pretty good
How are you holding up in the -46 celcius (- 51 fahrenheit ) now ?
Happy you like, but I think I'll skip on the popsicle experience stepping outsideIt's awesome! Sun is out, went ice fishing a few days ago, excellent hiking weather, and it's a nice warm 24C inside the house.
On a serious note, you must be going through a bunch of firewood atm
How big is your boiler and how much thermal storage? How many kg of wood per day? I'm currently collecting all my pieces to put together a system. I found a pair of ASME 535 gallon boiler tanks for $600 and will be taking a trip to pick up a used gasification unit soon. My expansion tank was a 370 gallon buffer tank I picked up for $250. That tank probably cost $3K when it was purchased. The boiler tanks saved me from converting 500 gallon propane tanks.Actually, not really. The house behaves exactly as designed - I make one fire a day in the gasification boiler, and one a day in the masonry fireplace. Takes care of all the heating and domestic hot water.
How big is your boiler and how much thermal storage? How many kg of wood per day? I'm currently collecting all my pieces to put together a system. I found a pair of ASME 535 gallon boiler tanks for $600 and will be taking a trip to pick up a used gasification unit soon. My expansion tank was a 370 gallon buffer tank I picked up for $250. That tank probably cost $3K when it was purchased. The boiler tanks saved me from converting 500 gallon propane tanks.
The guy selling me the boiler is 80 years old, his wife made him quit burning wood. He phoned last night and said he had a wiring, relays, pumps, stacks, heat exchangers and a whole pile of extra stuff he is giving me. Boiler is 7 years old and only burned about 4 cords per year in it. $1300 which is cheap for a gasification unit, the refractory has a little wear but still in good condition. He had a converted 500 gallon tank with internal coil for thermal storage but I didn't need it or want to haul it back as I would need to drag a trailer for it.
Boiler has 3000L (800 gallon) of water (mixed with glycol - about 180kWh stored when full) heated to around 80 degrees,
the masonry fireplace stores 60kWh, and you can also add the concrete floor to the equation since it's floor heating (10 cm/4 inch thick over the entire living area). Living area is 120m^2 (1300 square feet) and the separate boiler room is 15m^2 (161 square feet).
Number of kg of wood per day, I guess around 50 to 75kg total for both the masonry fireplace and the boiler. It's a mixture of birch, pine and spruce, so the estimate is just that. The gasifier has a filling volume of 230dm^3, and I never need to fill it fully. The masonry fireplace keeps going with about 10kg per day. Gassification is definitely the way to go - good price you found!
Edit: in case anyone wants to read up on my system, it's described here:
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At first I thought you had a misprint at 80 degrees but remembered you are a Finn and thus use C.
I've been studying for a long time over on Hearth.com It seems many are weighing the wood when they fill, they know about what the efficiency is of the boiler, what the delta is from temp sensors on storage, how well stratification the tank is and can easily determine how many lbs of wood for the batch burn to bring storage to desired temp.
If using low temp emitters like radiant and down to 110F (43C) it is about 625,000 btu's (180Kwh).
I run radiant in the shop with a condensing boiler with a pretty good turn down ratio. I installed it over New Year's weekend a year ago when the original condensing boiler developed a leak in the heat exchanger.And by the way, radiant can go much lower than 43C and still be effective, especially when it's not super cold outside. 30C (86F) is still good to go.
I'm actually considering wind......... someone help me.
Some fine looking land. Amazing price.We recently got 30 acres in northeast Texas for $4800 per acre ($144k).
10 minutes to a town with a super Walmart, 25 minutes to a town with Home Depot/Lowes, Sams Club, etc...View attachment 188974
Thanks!Some fine looking land. Amazing price.
Re: Maine. Agree - Fantastic place to live. Amazing place to live and great suggestion, @green mountain boys. Happiest I've ever been since we moved here a few years back. And people here have welcomed us as if we'd been born here, contrary to what some would caution.Cheap, undeveloped land. Try Maine. It is quite easy to find land for $1,000. - $2,000./acre. The property tax rate is good so, cheap land x moderate property tax rate = low property tax bill. Also, you can put some of your land into a discounted property tax program for timber growth if you choose.
I recently saw a property in Maine for sale. Almost 700 acres with interior gravel roads to get around, 360 degree views, 300 acres of blueberries with last years' reported yield of 800,000lbs, old post and beam barn looked to be in good shape. Asking $500,000. and the property taxes were about $1,800./year if I remember correctly.
The downside... winter snow/cold, mud-season, bugs, distance to civilization and in some places wind.