A quick update to my post yesterday on Woodburning Stoves for Heating & Hot Water in Smokeless zones. I’ve just had it confirmed by Rayburn/Aga that they do no wood-fired boiler models which are suitable for smokeless zones. So that means that I should update my Bin your Aga – buy a Rayburn post to “Bin your Aga and Rayburn [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Solar Hot Water’
23 Mar
Woodburning Stoves for Heating & Hot Water in Smokeless zones
We’re slowly narrowing the field in our wood-fired heating search. Following up on my previous posts on Woodburning Stoves for Heating & Hot Water and Using a Wood-Burning Stove in a Smoke-Control Area, I’ve found an interesting thing: The Dunsley Yorkshire is the only stove with a back boiler that can be legally used in a smokeless zone They cost £1922.30 [...]
15 Feb
Get paid for your Solar Hot Water
This sounds a bit too strange to be true, but it does appear to be above board. I’ve emailed them to check and we’ll see what the response is. Anyway, what am I talking about? Good Energy – suppliers of 100% renewable electricity – are just starting to roll-out a Renewable Heat Incentive. On this [...]
12 Feb
Shopping List – latest update
Steadily firming up the shopping list for our new house – here’s the latest list, with links. Kitchen Multi-fuel or Wood-Fired Range (possibly with Back Boiler), will need to be smokeless Various non-powered kitchen gadgets: Mouli, Hand-Powered Blender, Thermos Slow Cooker, Low-voltage (LED or Fluorescent) under-cabinet lighting Water Purifier Large Pantry, pref double-sided DC Fridge or Brownout Protector Equipment for Waxing [...]
8 Feb
Wood-Fired Ranges in a PassivHaus
In my PassivHaus Renovation post I said that: Any non-solar water heating to be Gas Condensing boiler or CHP – wood fired stoves are not permitted (this conflicts with my peak-oil resilience planning) In return I got a comment posted by Andy Simmonds at the AECB stating: The AECB standards do not proscribe wood stoves, nor [...]
3 Jan
A Passivhaus (Passive House) renovation?
The picture on the left is a thermograph – showing the difference in lost heat between a conventional house (on the left) and a house built to PassivHaus standards (on the right). Which house would you rather be living in when Russia cuts gas supplies? The PassivHaus standard, as interpreted for the UK by the [...]
23 Dec
Underfloor heating or radiators?
Assuming we’re not going to be at the point of only heating one room anytime soon, how do we heat the whole house? Traditionally I’d have said easy – just radiators. The hot water can come from our wood-fired range, topped up with Solar hot water and our emergency Gas boiler. But I’ve always had [...]
3 Dec
Rayburn Solar Thermal System
Rayburn Range OK, so this is an interesting development – you can get a Rayburn Solid Fuel / Wooburning Stove & Boiler packaged with a Solar Hot Water System and twin-coil cylinder. They call it “The Rayburn Solar Thermal System”. Seems like an interesting combination for those of us concerned with both emissions and future fuel scarcity [...]
27 Nov
Resilience: Woodburning Stoves for Heating & Hot Water
A lot of time is spent discussing how we’re going to stay warm after the peak, and increasingly people are installing woodburning stoves and / or solar hot water systems as a part of their solution for heating and hot water. There is a great discussion on this over at Powerswitch and a whole heap of useful links: [...]
