Spring time

Well spring is here its been a long winter ,my fire lasted the haul .I have a few tweaks to do ,which i will do shortly .The exhaust to the chimney has too much water jacket so runs far too cool ,making sweeping the chimney every 3 weeks a must .My plan is to take the water jacket off the rear of the chimney and expand the chimney cavity also leaving a door for easy cleaning this winter .I think some insulation will also be used to keep the flue gasses hotter,a rodding eye for the chimney sweep will be a good addition too ,the pipe for the chimney i used is 6inch od with a 10mm wall so it weighs a bit lol .

Snow

Well Good job the boiler was installed because we had some good snow

 This is 2 ft/600mm deep greeting me at the door .This is usually a step down lol

Drive is in-passable

Power up

In action powering  16 double  radiators

6 inch flue letting her breath

No draft on

Draft on gasification baby !!

the install of fire

Fire almost finished just got to add the draft control and ash pan door

Trial run notice the chimney which is 8inch ,a little on the big side and didn’t offer much draft :-(  ,but it heated the water up (abt 30 gallon in abt 30 mins)

Old house capped chimney ...great :-( ended up putting scaffold up after a dangerous climb onto the pot to confirm the capping 

view from the top of chimney after i had climbed up to see the capping 

And here is Grandpop watching in amazement lmao !!

The fire

Moved into new house with only downstairs heating ,then installed upstairs radiators with separate pump .Having done all this it became apparent it was going to be expensive to run so the quest for alternative heat source began.

Building a multistove ,basically a firebox surrounded by water.Here you can see what will be the fire back and gasifier.

Fire box completed 

Side view Showing the air intakes for the gasifier and rear of flue before its closed up .All this will be clad with water tank .