- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Is anyone using one for their house heating? The first downside I see is, it seems essential to utilise a large capacity of water storage.
Looking at it, still waiting on people coming back to us. Agree it works on heating a large storage vessel a couple of times a week and drawing heating and hot water from it.Is anyone using one for their house heating? The first downside I see is, it seems essential to utilise a large capacity of water storage.
I've a 50kw atmos wood boiler heating a new well insulated (which is key) 2500 square foot house. In Summer time i only need hot tap water so the boiler gets fired up once a week but in winter time it'll be fired up 3 times per week to provide heat for the radiators. Its essential you have a large buffer tank to store the heat and utilise the boiler. The buffer tank I have holds 3000 litres. To be honest it's good in summer but it can be a nuisance in winter as unless you have the time to fire up and refill the boiler. 15mins gets the boiler up and running, it'll burn for two to three hours before needing filled with wood again, I usually need to refill two or three times in total to get the whole buffer tank heated up to 90°c. The stats in the house call in heat from this tank from there on. It's ok as long as you have time in the evenings in winter to refill the boiler when it's going. I'd still have one again as it gets rid of the timber we gather up on the farm and it's free heating
That is the theory however in practice not always so simple. We have an 80kw with 4000 litre tank heating 2 old stone farmhouses with loft insulation and double glazed. In winter it is burning 24/7 but does keep us warm.Am I getting this correct… so normal burning wood, I have had a boiler in the past and still have just wood burners, you might have them going non stop for weeks on end, am I right in thinking with these, you light them, run them for a few hours, then they go out and you light them again next time you need heat ?
That is the theory however in practice not always so simple. We have an 80kw with 4000 litre tank heating 2 old stone farmhouses with loft insulation and double glazed. In winter it is burning 24/7 but does keep us warm.