Drying Firewood when RHI payments stop.

[skyhuck]

I would imagine the price of the equipment will mysteriously fall once RHI ends   

[bilke_user]

2 hours ago, skyhuck said:

I would imagine the price of the equipment will mysteriously fall once RHI ends   

Not so long ago when the price of solar panels plummeted simply because RHI  went from sky high to not worth doing

[skyhuck]

1 minute ago, bilke_user said:

Not so long ago when the price of solar panels plummeted simply because RHI  went from sky high to not worth doing

Indeed 

[Woodworks]

It could be argued that the cost of panels has only being going one way for a long time and nothing to do with the FITS

[ash_smith123]

4 hours ago, arboriculturist said:

Those ECO Angus are nice compact units, whereas the GF is a lumbering inefficient beast. Unfortunately not everyone realises until they have shelled out their hard earnt cash.

They are but we do spent a lot more on it than our Attak boiler and in all honestly it’s not as good either. Firebricks are £50 each (4 in the boiler) and in 3 years I’ve changed them twice. I had to repair the fire bricks in the firebox as they fell

apart (another £200) and they did recommend sending it off to the factory for 3 months and £3000-4000 for a full rebuild ?

 You can get the same thing as a eco Angus for half the price. Called Orlan I think, didn’t realise this until I bought the eco Angus. But to be fair the eco Angus guys have been pretty good with after sales. 

[Woodwanter]

4 hours ago, arboriculturist said:

Those ECO Angus are nice compact units, whereas the GF is a lumbering inefficient beast. Unfortunately not everyone realises until they have shelled out their hard earnt cash.

 

If you think the GF's are bad you see a dragon! Smoke like Thomas the tank engine too!

 

dont know much about the eco Angus?

[difflock]

Whether particularly pertinent to this thread or not;

I ran a so-called "Solarbayer" gasifying logwood burner for about 10 years, & I hasten to add, NOT under the RHI scheme.

I now reverted to  heating with kero, a 500 gal fill (2250 litres to younguns) has lasted about 18 months, courtsey of self installed underfloor heating, 15 deg Celsius in the hall stairs and landing, and a woodburning Morso in the Garden room, which easily sustains 25 deg centigrade.

Woodburning only makes sense, either on the Micro scale=woodburner in the room, or the Macro scale, but WITHOUT subsidies.

marcusthehat

[arboriculturist]

36 minutes ago, ash_smith123 said:

They are but we do spent a lot more on it than our Attak boiler and in all honestly it’s not as good either. Firebricks are £50 each (4 in the boiler) and in 3 years I’ve changed them twice. I had to repair the fire bricks in the firebox as they fell

apart (another £200) and they did recommend sending it off to the factory for 3 months and £3000-4000 for a full rebuild ?

 You can get the same thing as a eco Angus for half the price. Called Orlan I think, didn’t realise this until I bought the eco Angus. But to be fair the eco Angus guys have been pretty good with after sales. 

 

[arboriculturist]

Agreed it's difficult to guage the quality of a boiler just from the marketing and there are few people with varying brands on the forums. price is generally a very good indicator of quality.

 

Did you originally avoid a Hertz chip boiler like Duffryn due to the very high initial costing and having to get a contractor in to chip combined with stacking soft roundwood up outside for 12 mths + and the huge space for chip required to make the contractor cost effective.

 

Looks like you split at 20 " then dry ready to feed the ECO - straighforward low cost.

[difflock]

In hindsight I should probably bit the cost bullet, and installed a Froling boiler, or similar quality=purchase cost.

But, when I  was attempting to decide, there were so many snake-oil salesmen, it was impossible to see the wood for the trees. (& pun fully intended!)

sigh.

Edited January 28, 2018 by difflock