Things I've not seen before: A water boiler with the usual electric heating element and a built-in (small) solid fuel boiler.

Saves you a bunch of plumbing, but the obvious downside is the chimney connection.

Still, nice to know what your options are.

Feeding The Fire by Robot - It might seem a little bit counterintuitive, but one of the more carbon-neutral wa... - https://hackaday.com/2024/01/15/feeding-the-fire-by-robot/ #roboticarm #homehacks #heating #boiler #carbon #robot #fire #wood

Engineering Porn. It exists.

#GoodNight #Bonjour

Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park
https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/yulee-sugar-mill-ruins-historic-state-park
An interesting stop, if you are brave enough to visit Florida again. I'm glad I already did it, because I'll never return now. ​
#Florida #SugarCane #Historic #Boiler #NationalStatePark

A sugar cane boiler

Our #Boiler was playing up over the weekend and plumber did a patch repair but definitely need a new one though at least he got it working before he left. #Boiler model is 28 years old (we inherited it and have been here for just over 17.5 years) so hardly surprising.

A restored #steam-powered #tractor seen near #Uniondale. I’m guessing the #boiler would have been #oil-fired versus #coal - otherwise a ‘fireman’ would have been needed to shovel fuel while the #farmer drove…

For the last few weeks I've been coping with stone #ColdShowers after #cycling back from #work. Our old #boiler recently packed up for good but we want some time to think about a #sustainable replacement. I can't say cold showers are pleasant but actually today's was the first i quite enjoyed - i felt refreshed rather than hypothermic. Maybe I'm acclimatising?

Top cold shower tip - wait right till the end before washing your head!

Enjoy an Open-Source Espresso - One of the core principles of the open-source movement is that anyone who wants to... - https://hackaday.com/2023/03/24/enjoy-an-open-source-espresso/ #opensource #homehacks #gaggiuino #espresso #boiler #coffee

Enjoy an Open-Source Espresso

https://hackaday.com/2023/03/24/enjoy-an-open-source-espresso/

#opensource #homehacks #gaggiuino #espresso #Boiler #coffee

My boiler broke last week - will I ever be able to trust it, or the company who failed to properly service it and left us stranded without heat for three days, again? This week’s Philosophy Unleashed looks at trust, induction, Hume, Descartes, prisons, and boilers… https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/149-the-limbo-of-trust-hume-descartes-induction-trust-and-a-broken-boiler

Heating system people! I need a new #boiler at short notice. Long term I want a #heatpump but now is not the time. However I’m wondering what I can/should do to enable a future transition?

Things I’m thinking:
• ensure boiler supports weather compensation
• plan for lower temperatures, replacing rads where necessary
• stick with existing hot water cylinder rather than getting a combi

Anything else I should consider?

Onze 150L gasboiler heeft de geest gegeven. de CV zit in hetzelfde toestel, maar is ok.
Zonnepanelen en batterij komen er over een paar maanden aan (voor mei).
Hoe vervangen we die gasboiler best? #dtv #energie #verwarming #boiler #gas #homeassistant #warmwater

there's something really interesting at looking at exploded boilers for trains

In case this helps anyone else, we went through the #Octopus Winter Workout & turned down our #boiler flow settings. The guide states there should be no difference in performance, but our heating has struggled & I've had to run it much more than usual to keep the temp at 18

Cue a little more reading: it seems if you have an older house this is often the case. Although we've had our walls, loft, and windows done, our 70's build is still poor at retaining heat.

Flow settings back up, and