Wood Pellet or Log boilers

CEON44

I'm thinking about potentially getting a wood pellet boiler or even a log boiler installed in garage, to compliment, or offset my dependency on oil fired heat. Anyone use this type of system and recommend the equipment and/or installers? Any ideas on cost? Also any ideas on potential savings?

motorguy

CEON44 wrote: »

I'm thinking about potentially getting a wood pellet boiler or even a log boiler installed in garage, to compliment, or offset my dependency on oil fired heat. Anyone use this type of system and recommend the equipment and/or installers? Any ideas on cost? Also any ideas on potential savings?

We've a wood pellet (biomass) burner as our primary heat source and an oil boiler as out backup source.

You could use a hopper bin with the biomass burner which means you could probably get away with filling it once every few days and leaving it to do its thing.

If i were going to the trouble of installing one, i'd be using it as your primary heat source.

Cost? Not sure. Ours is quite a complex system as we've underfloor heating zoned in every room over 3,600 sq feet of living space, and then we've the added complexity of water heating solar panels on the roof of the house. We've a 1,000 litre thermal store in the garage which the biomass burner heats, then the house calls for the hot water as it needs it to heat a room.

A "standard" biomass burner heating a house with radiators would be a more common thing.

Oil prices are quite low at the minute so i'd say you're looking at maybe a 15% saving on oil prices, rising to maybe 25% when oil prices are at their winter peak.

Biomass burners burn at a higher efficiency rate than oil, so theres a small saving there too - probably a few percent.

We did it because, like you, we wanted to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, and also to keep our heating costs down.

I think theres grants available so the install cost might not be much.

We used Green Energy Technology -

http://www.get-renewables.com/



You might also want to look at insulation in your house and how you can cheaply improve that.

GlynD

motorguy wrote: »

We've a wood pellet (biomass) burner as our primary heat source and an oil boiler as out backup source.

You could use a hopper bin with the biomass burner which means you could probably get away with filling it once every few days and leaving it to do its thing.

If i were going to the trouble of installing one, i'd be using it as your primary heat source.

Cost? Not sure. Ours is quite a complex system as we've underfloor heating zoned in every room over 3,600 sq feet of living space, and then we've the added complexity of water heating solar panels on the roof of the house. We've a 1,000 litre thermal store in the garage which the biomass burner heats, then the house calls for the hot water as it needs it to heat a room.

A "standard" biomass burner heating a house with radiators would be a more common thing.

Oil prices are quite low at the minute so i'd say you're looking at maybe a 15% saving on oil prices, rising to maybe 25% when oil prices are at their winter peak.

Biomass burners burn at a higher efficiency rate than oil, so theres a small saving there too - probably a few percent.

We did it because, like you, we wanted to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, and also to keep our heating costs down.

I think theres grants available so the install cost might not be much.

We used Green Energy Technology -

http://www.get-renewables.com/



You might also want to look at insulation in your house and how you can cheaply improve that.

With all these savings how did you manage to get yourself into a debt situation of £100 million?

CEON44

motorguy wrote: »

We've a wood pellet (biomass) burner as our primary heat source and an oil boiler as out backup source.

You could use a hopper bin with the biomass burner which means you could probably get away with filling it once every few days and leaving it to do its thing.

If i were going to the trouble of installing one, i'd be using it as your primary heat source.

Cost? Not sure. Ours is quite a complex system as we've underfloor heating zoned in every room over 3,600 sq feet of living space, and then we've the added complexity of water heating solar panels on the roof of the house. We've a 1,000 litre thermal store in the garage which the biomass burner heats, then the house calls for the hot water as it needs it to heat a room.

A "standard" biomass burner heating a house with radiators would be a more common thing.

Oil prices are quite low at the minute so i'd say you're looking at maybe a 15% saving on oil prices, rising to maybe 25% when oil prices are at their winter peak.

Biomass burners burn at a higher efficiency rate than oil, so theres a small saving there too - probably a few percent.

We did it because, like you, we wanted to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, and also to keep our heating costs down.

I think theres grants available so the install cost might not be much.

We used Green Energy Technology -

http://www.get-renewables.com/



You might also want to look at insulation in your house and how you can cheaply improve that.

Thanks Paul for the info. i'll check more into it all. Would be good to get a grant

motorguy

GlynD wrote: »

With all these savings how did you manage to get yourself into a debt situation of £100 million?

LOL. Indeed.