Re: OT - Tarm USA add-on wood-fired boiler

Posted by CB in central NY on November 22, 2006 at 10:51:59 from (63.162.143.5):

In Reply to: OT - Tarm USA add-on wood-fired boiler posted by CB in central NY on November 21, 2006 at 09:11:56:

Thanks to all who answered; some good info. here.

IN STICKS: The boiler did the same thing when new. Yes, there is a lot of creosote built up on the inner walls of the boiler, like I said, I don"t burn the best wood. There is a plate you can take off on top to clean the "heat exchanger". I am also going to clean the pipe connecting the unit to the chimney.

Forist NWMa: My wood has been seasoned about 18 months but right now it"s mostly pine. I am getting to some hardwoods further down in the stack once they season. I don"t have the heat storage tank, no room for it in my 150+ year-old cellar with all the other stuff that"s already there. What draft inducer do you mean? I don"t have anything on top of the boiler.

Matt Kane: It"s a block chimney built in 2002 and it"s about 25" tall (actually, two chimneys side by side). I have my oil boiler, the Tarm and a woodstove, so I have to share the chimney. No, I do not have any grilles in the cellar, the windows are boarded up and have some conduit and pipes running through them.

By the way, this is an older model Tarm, not one of the new "wood gasification" units. Tarm USA tried to sell me one for a lot more money, of course.

Thanks again.

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