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Sweet your way ahead of me. I got my plumbing done.
 
Keep us updated. I had to reroute a bunch of piping because I'm basically eliminating my oil boiler and my Garn is pretty much a level down and about as far away from where my oil boiler (which was in my garage) as I could have moved it. My house was built backwards from most. We started with a garage and lived in an apartment like space above it. Then added the house later and had left all of the heating system in the garage.
 
Are you going to use the electric back-up? I installed the element's and plan on hooking them up some time. Once I get everything else done.
 
Yea that's my next project elements are in just gotta run wire from panel and do the controls I have a few other thins I have to button up like insulating heat exchanger and piping and drag old boiler out of basement not sure how that's gonna work out
 
It was good to see controls mounted. I'm trying to figure out where and how to mount mine right now. I wish I had a wall handy like your setup it would make it a lot simpler. Just curious how many burns to get to 180? What temperature did you start at?
 
I'm contemplating turning my old boiler into a giant radiator for my garage.
 
Started at 55 when I was precleaning and not even a full load of maple brought me up to 120 for a much needed shower today I got to 180 in about 2 hours started at 105
 
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Did you preclean and drain it like my instructions say? I filled mine this past weekend and I'm waiting for my precleaning stuff to arrive.
 
Sounds like you needed a shower after the shower inside the Garn. Took me 2 days to fill the first time looking forward to filling it again. Luckily I have a well that's 400 feet deep. I still only ran the water into it for 1/2 hour at a time. Didn't want to hear the wife scream if we ran out of water. Still not sure she's as excited about the Garn adventure as I am.
 
I'm thinking that hopefully helping split and stack half the wood we normally do will warm her up to it a little.
 
Honestly I have no idea. I'm hoping around 8 cord which will be half of what I burned in my OWB.
 
And I'm hoping that means a little longer burning season. We were burning 20+ cord a year for my house (about 2800 sq ft) plus my father in laws house next door (about 1000 sq ft) and that 20+ lasted about 4 months.
 
Started at 55 when I was precleaning and not even a full load of maple brought me up to 120 for a much needed shower today I got to 180 in about 2 hours started at 105

I don't know how much wood the Garn Jr. holds - but that's pretty impressive sounding.

You're way more on the ball than me - I've got 2 winters burning in with mine, and I'm still not totally finished with it. And it took me a whole summer plus parts of the spring & fall to get it in & burning. Nice work - you should really love this thing.
 
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