Heating your home with a wood-fired boiler
The co-op ‘went green’ a little while ago by installing boilers fuelled by little pellets of compressed sawdust. Until recently we had to load them by hand, each house regularly lugging 10kg bags of pellets from the car park into the big ‘feeder’ receptacles for the boilers. This now gets done by truck, thankfully cutting down on manual labour and the volume of plastic bags left lying around. Take a look:
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I haven’t seen the numbers on what this costs or what the carbon footprint is like, but I assume they’re both pretty low; the boilers however seem to have required quite a few maintenance calls over the winter; they’re largely untested modifications to an Italian design, and have been used quite heavily over these cold winters. Naturally, every house has a backup electric immersion heater.
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