To make conversion, I'd like to address the ugly term "idle"
Seems like no one here wants their boiler to idle. It's a dirty word. We want to have our boilers running @ 100% to hurry up and burn all the wood in the firebox, and heat our storage.
There are also those who don't have storage for one reason or another and wish they did.
I have 500 gallons storage, considered minimum here in America. I think about norm in Europe.
How wasteful is burning without storage? How much more maintenance is required? Lets face it, 1000 gallons of storage takes up alot of space, is expensive. Tarm, bio-heat, whoever - would like to sell you 4-250 gallon tanks for a small fortune. You can stand up two 500 gallon tanks and make your basement look like a Russian nuclear missile silo. You can put in unpressurized storage with heat exchangers and pray you don't get a leak.
I'd like to double my storage for convenience reasons but the wife flat out says NO. Maybe sometimes we overcomplicate matters. I know I do.
Seems like no one here wants their boiler to idle. It's a dirty word. We want to have our boilers running @ 100% to hurry up and burn all the wood in the firebox, and heat our storage.
There are also those who don't have storage for one reason or another and wish they did.
I have 500 gallons storage, considered minimum here in America. I think about norm in Europe.
How wasteful is burning without storage? How much more maintenance is required? Lets face it, 1000 gallons of storage takes up alot of space, is expensive. Tarm, bio-heat, whoever - would like to sell you 4-250 gallon tanks for a small fortune. You can stand up two 500 gallon tanks and make your basement look like a Russian nuclear missile silo. You can put in unpressurized storage with heat exchangers and pray you don't get a leak.
I'd like to double my storage for convenience reasons but the wife flat out says NO. Maybe sometimes we overcomplicate matters. I know I do.