[q]Looking at a house in Fairbanks in Alaska, where it is 9 cents a kwatt. all appliances are 120 vac (ie: dryer,hot water tank heater, fridge, etc.) Except the oil furnace. Would it be wise to change the hot water heater and dryer to propane? Or would I be better off getting a wind mill […]
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Wood Fired Boiler and Storage
[q]I looked at an old cast iron boiler the other day it was the type used to heat those old brass radiators in the ’40’s, I think it was originally coal fired, probably weighed 1200 lbs. What I thought might work would be something like this boiler, converted for wood, an insulated jacket around it […]
Setting up an Oil Hot Water Tank
I’m new to the site, and am just starting to sift through the plethora of remarkable information that you all are passing among each other. I’m brand-new to the deeper intracacies of HVAC, although I am an avid do-it-yourselfer and have had one, and now two, WVO cars for the last three years, with all […]