big green has arrived

[MaineGuy]

Sweet your way ahead of me. I got my plumbing done.

 

[waynewagner33]

Plumbing was hardest part for me cause I've never done it before I took me too very long days but now my garns at 180 and I couldn't be happier

 

[MaineGuy]

Keep us updated. I had to reroute a bunch of piping because I'm basically eliminating my oil boiler and my Garn is pretty much a level down and about as far away from where my oil boiler (which was in my garage) as I could have moved it. My house was built backwards from most. We started with a garage and lived in an apartment like space above it. Then added the house later and had left all of the heating system in the garage.

 

[MaineGuy]

Are you going to use the electric back-up? I installed the element's and plan on hooking them up some time. Once I get everything else done.

 

[waynewagner33]

Yea that's my next project elements are in just gotta run wire from panel and do the controls I have a few other thins I have to button up like insulating heat exchanger and piping and drag old boiler out of basement not sure how that's gonna work out

 

[waynewagner33]

Anyone wanna come check out garn more than welcome admission will be helping lift old boiler out of basement

 

[MaineGuy]

It was good to see controls mounted. I'm trying to figure out where and how to mount mine right now. I wish I had a wall handy like your setup it would make it a lot simpler. Just curious how many burns to get to 180? What temperature did you start at?

 

[MaineGuy]

I'm contemplating turning my old boiler into a giant radiator for my garage.

 

[waynewagner33]

Started at 55 when I was precleaning and not even a full load of maple brought me up to 120 for a much needed shower today I got to 180 in about 2 hours started at 105

 

[MaineGuy]

Did you preclean and drain it like my instructions say? I filled mine this past weekend and I'm waiting for my precleaning stuff to arrive.

 

[waynewagner33]

Yea I did then got in with brush and power washer cleaned everything then shop vac it was a messy day

 

[MaineGuy]

Sounds like you needed a shower after the shower inside the Garn. Took me 2 days to fill the first time looking forward to filling it again. Luckily I have a well that's 400 feet deep. I still only ran the water into it for 1/2 hour at a time. Didn't want to hear the wife scream if we ran out of water. Still not sure she's as excited about the Garn adventure as I am.

 

[waynewagner33]

We'll a 5 hour long shower could change her mind

 

[MaineGuy]

I'm thinking that hopefully helping split and stack half the wood we normally do will warm her up to it a little.

 

[waynewagner33]

How much do u expect to burn

 

[MaineGuy]

Honestly I have no idea. I'm hoping around 8 cord which will be half of what I burned in my OWB.

 

[MaineGuy]

And I'm hoping that means a little longer burning season. We were burning 20+ cord a year for my house (about 2800 sq ft) plus my father in laws house next door (about 1000 sq ft) and that 20+ lasted about 4 months.

 

[maple1]

Started at 55 when I was precleaning and not even a full load of maple brought me up to 120 for a much needed shower today I got to 180 in about 2 hours started at 105

I don't know how much wood the Garn Jr. holds - but that's pretty impressive sounding.

You're way more on the ball than me - I've got 2 winters burning in with mine, and I'm still not totally finished with it. And it took me a whole summer plus parts of the spring & fall to get it in & burning. Nice work - you should really love this thing.