Are the newer style gasification boilers less troublesome?

Yep that’s what I was getting at after thinking more about it. All the btu’s not transferred to the water went in the air. Minus what gos up the stack which will always be no matter what.

 

I can't remember all the details from physics class 20+ years ago, but the higher difference in temperature the higher the rate of thermal transfer (thermal gradient). In the case of a well insulated space where the boiler resides, the ambient temperature inside the building will rise and the heat loss will slow as they approach equilibrium (which, in reality, they will never reach unless the building is perfectly insulated).

 

That's what thermal regulators (windows) are for.

 

A while back my wife told me it was hot in the house. I told her to actuate the thermal regulators to desired ambient and walked out of the room.

 

Anybody have any experience with Froling? My phone keyboard dosnt have an umlaut.

 

Not personally, but they have a great reputation, right campinspecter ?

 

The closest and pretty much only indoor gasser dealer near me sells them.

I’m I bit gunshy, my boiler is supposed to be the latest and greatest but the guy that installed it went out of business and now nobody else wants to touch it because it requires proprietary test equipment.

seems highly efficient new technology dosnt have the support here .

 

Froling has a great reputation ! Once someone gets one you never hear from them again on here or the other site ! The only one I heard from lives about three hours from me and said it burned about half the wood his Eco burned!

 

When I was installing the Vedolux I could not find a Electrician who would come near it . The plumbing was fairly simple so I did it and the electrical my self !

 

Oh, I didn't realize you had a boiler...thought it was just the stove in the basement and garage...so what boiler do you have?

 

Oil boiler. Buderus G125 with the blue flame burner and a LT 160 indirect water heater.

 

I agree with campinginspector, they are a very highly regarded boiler. I don't have the space in my basement for one so that's why I went the OWB route. If I had the cash to build a barn, concrete the floor, and put a boiler in that would be the one I'd get personally. Called them last year and they were around 10k just for the boiler with no storage.

 

Was referring more to the boiler itself. If you were able to insulate the boiler well enough, the environment it "lives in" doesn't matter.

It would be nice to have Passive House that required very little heat and AC. If you were young and it was going to be your forever home then I could see spending that kind of cash, maybe. Most of us will never see the payback on that investment. My assumption is, that's why they came up with the Pretty Good House stuff. From a personal perspective I paid twice the money to have my house addition spray foamed over regular batt insulation. One of the better decisions I've made in my life.

 

Storage makes the old smoke dragon OWB's run a lot better too!

 

I fully agree. A batch fired lambda boiler and storage tanks inside a structure that is going to be heated is the most efficient way to turn a pound a wood into a BTU to heat the residence. At that point all BTU"s that are aren't going out the stack will be used for heat. My dream unit is a Froling w/ 2k gallon of storage. I talked to a guy about a lightly used Froling w/ 1k gallon of storage but he wanted as much ( 15k ) as new. Was hoping he didn't know what he had, unfortunately he did. Guess I should start buying lottery tickets.

When I had my wood furnace, I indirectly heated my hot water from the heat off of it. Every vent in my basement was closed, the heat that came off of the glass was enough to keep my basement warm. I honestly don't think a high efficiency wood furnace is that far off. I don't know of any lambda controlled wood furnaces though that can optimize the burn like a lambda controller boiler can. A wood furnace doesn't burn flat out like a batch boiler does either but they can modulate down to a slower burn like a boiler though. Might be splitting hairs at this point.