Biomass boilers/wood pellets

They are not too bad, if the boiler can go inside property there are better options. Unless your property is huge, I think you've missed the boat on making money from RHI.

I don't think that free biomass works when you are buying pellets, cost of pellets is higher than oil currently. There will be hundreds of Trianco/Bioflame boilers in the uk, most are ok. They will need to maintain boiler for 7 years anyway

pellets should flow fine through augers aslong as there is a restrictor to slow them, our worked fine for a year then started tripping the motor overload after a change of pellet, we altered the restrictors a year ago, no trouble since. resistor on ours is just a sliding bobbin on the auger end bearing shaft

this is hearsay but the company who installed my biomass offered either froling or much cheaper trianco. I went for the froling (£26k for 28kw dual fuel) their installers told me they never had problems with them but lots with the trianco.

Ours will run on pellets or logs.With regard to cost of running on pellets I have my doubts about the true cost vs theory. It seems to use tons. I think that there is a lot of energy used in just heating the boilers own water before any heat is used. Ours in a large outbuilding that gets really warm whilst it's running. Quite handy for us to dry things out but obviously using up lots of energy.

If it's free I would check they are including a buffer tank as efficiency falls off significantly if not.

Sorry to say this as you are probably looking forward to it but with rhi payments as low as they are now I can't see how the company can install anything other than a cheap system that you will regret having.

Froling is a better boiler, but there back up is shockingly bad, one guy covers whole of UK.
The heat load for the property must be very high for the investor to justify a free boiler. If this is the case, why don't you buy it yourself ? If the figures work for the investor, they'll work for you !!

There are quite a few distributors for Froling boilers in the UK with their own qualified engineers.

I agree with Silly Boy, the deemed heat demand needs to be huge for a investor to be interested on a free boiler. This means that you could see returns as high as 25%-20% income tax free if you do it yourself (much better than an ISA). Many go to their bank to borrow the funds also. Happy to discuss if needed.

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