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Rainwater and outdoor boilers

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s.crum

05-20-2008 08:20:51




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In the continuing saga of the outdoor boiler construction, the newest consideration is water to the boiler. I know hard water is the bane of an open circuit system and requires a lot of monitoring and treatment. My question is how soft and mineral free is rainwater on the average? I don't have the test instruments I used to have when I ran evaporation and reverse osmosis systems for a living. I know Dad always required that we keep a rain barrel at the side of the shop on the farm that we filled batteries and radiators from and we never had issues with minerals.
This boiler system will mathematically have a capacity of about 600 gallons of water and 41 square feet of heating surface. I plan to maintain the temp at 175 to 180 degrees and circulate to the house and 2 shop buildings. All are R-19 minimum insulated.
I have enough roof area and tote tanks to fill the boiler several times over from just one rainstorm. Does using rainwater sound like a good idea?

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dave guest

05-20-2008 20:21:22




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 Re: Rainwater and outdoor boilers in reply to s.crum, 05-20-2008 08:20:51  
Make up water is required to be pressurized. Might as well use your house supply. Unless you want gravity tank and manual fill. That said, wouldn't you be using some type of anti-freeze glycol product anyhow?



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