Back in the Victorian times they used to build a water tank into the chimmney above a fireplace. There was a tap by the side of the chimmney for baths by the fire in the front room(no bathrooms see).
You can still get stoves with a boiler, probably just a different type of system? I am not sure but you can still buy them and get them fitted. I'm getting a thermal store with mine when I get the money for it.
We just bought a back boiler stove for our house in rural Romania Ours is a closed system though Will be getting installed next Tuesday. In laws already bought us about 3mc of firewood to get us started so lots of splitting to be done!
My mum lives in Romania in Targu Mures. I have an ancient backboiler in the house here in England that used to work quite well, a bit too old now, we haven't used it in years, I have seen videos of people coiling copper pipe around the flue as a lot of heat goes up the chimney, also, in Romania they have chempes, (masonry stoves) that keep hold of the heat a lot better,
Yes we always had a stand pipe on top of the hot water cylinder which if it got really hot, the water came out of pipe and sounded like horses galloping on the roof
So glad to see you are going the coppiced willow route I have 8 coppiced willow trees in my garden and cant wait to find land I can afford to for field to farm like you are and expand my willow coppice
@@GordonHolian clearly you dont have a wood burner if you think anyone is burning willow wood and not drying it all wood has the same moisture content once dried to burn, thats the whole point of seasoning it!
Can i ask why you planted Willow to coppice? Willow tends to be a low calorific heating wood, it takes around two years to season due to its water content. Ash is a far superior firewood and grows quick too, can be coppiced and burnt either freshly cut or seasoned.
Clueless. It's about complete control. Oh and electric cars were never meant to be a genuine alternative, they don't want people to have private transport full stop.
@@FieldtoFarm_UK It only pre dates the hard pushed climate change agenda.(post covid) Your local council and our government signed up to Agenda 21 back in 1992. Whilst everyone was busy partying. It's been a long time coming this climate b*ll*x.
yup firewood puts out Co2 so let's get back on the grid, and run off the local coal plant, and now put carbon dioxide, nitro oxide, sulfur dioxide, whatever heavy metals were in that coal, and all the iddy bits of coal itself that turn into little shards that bury into your lungs, your waters and land. but sure, firewood is killing the planet, I'm amazed all the humans from the neolithic to the 1800s didn't turn the earth into a smog filled wasteland with all their log burning!
And the tree absorbs that carbon in it's life time! When they don't make more use of regenerative agriculture to suck carbon out of the atmosphere then you do wonder why? Some land isn't fit to grow much if anything on with mainstream methods. Too depleted. Regenerative agriculture has brought such land back into productive use, even reversing desertification in some cases and it sucks excess carbon up and is cheap to do. We can do far more than we currently do to slow or halt climate change but we aren't doing it. Is that incompetence? Corrupt interests? A mixture(probably) or something else?
