Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: kevin James on June 01, 2009, 07:11:59 pm
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I have a large trailer (3 ton capability) that now has marine ply sides & top. Me quad goes in here & I've a cunning plan for next winter!
A wood burning stove Wiv back burner. I'm told coal will burn slowly all night. Meaning stonking hot water ( there is also 2 400 l lay flat tanks under the bike. )
And if it's too cold, we can 'ave eggs & bacon.
Anybody see any probs?
Kevin.
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Only that you'll be called a pikey or Steptoe or you'll probably need a licence ;D
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is that not a steam train?
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wooden trailer + burning coal over night in it.
Nope, can't see a problem there. ;D
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at least he will have the water on hand to put it out ;D
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Chuck it in the canal and chug off down to the Cross Guns in your new boat for a pint of Tanglefoot. ;)
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wooden trailer + burning coal over night in it.
Nope, can't see a problem there. ;D
Nice one. I may surround the stove with galv plate. You're all welcome fir a fry up in January.
Kevin.
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A boiler stove needs to be rigged up to a heating/hot water system which must be vented & have a heat-leak source for none-electronic override systems! ;)
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A boiler stove needs to be rigged up to a heating/hot water system which must be vented & have a heat-leak source for none-electronic override systems! ;)
I'm gonna have a local firm supply & maybe install. The vent bit I get, but heat leak, non electronic, uh?
Kevin.
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A boiler stove needs to be rigged up to a heating/hot water system which must be vented & have a heat-leak source for none-electronic override systems! ;)
I'm gonna have a local firm supply & maybe install. The vent bit I get, but heat leak, non electronic, uh?
Kevin.
Where are you installing it?
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Remember, for a gravity fed system all pipework & tanks must be higher than stove & the gravity feed pipe must rise continusly from stove to vent.
Heat leak- where's the heat going to disperse once all your system is piping hot? Meltdown!!! On a domestic system this would be an unvalved large raditor.
Electronic override- a thermostat controlled pump which would click on to disperse the heat once the system is getting too hot. If the pump or power fails this is where the heat-leak is a back-up.
Vent- not a flue but a vented pipe system. ;)
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Oh, & it must be multi-fuel as coal won't burn on a wood burner!
Good luck! ;D
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Or just use a simple wood burner to take the frost off. Insulate your IBC tank in a small shed on sturdy stilts, put the log burner underneath with the exhaust flue near the tank and running out the roof.
Scavange bits of wood, light at night and in the winter you'll have stored water several degrees above freezing.
PROFIT WARNING
Warning - log burners are quite labour/time intensive - I run one in my house and add up the time collecting cutting and wood and cleaning and removing ash from the stove it would be cheaper and easier to clean an extra house a day and make a tenner to spend on gas.
I do it as a hobby really.
If as a business you want frost protection use an electric low wattage heater or if you want HOT water on tap - get a diesel heater and run it on waste oil.
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thanks for info macmac.
I'll allow for these extras in the budget.
My intial thoughts were that just enough coal to keep going all nght whilst pumping 800 liters around the back boiler. Do you think this would heat the water above 40 degrees c?
Kevin