Morning. I'm getting closer to starting my boiler project.
House and garage is about 6k of heated square footage. High ceilings, all radiant.
I installed a hour meter on the boiler and have been tracking usage this summer and fall. I can W.A.G. at the heat generated. I use a mixture of HHO and homebrew biodiesel, so the calculations will be close, but not too scientific.
I'm having an energy audit done. House is only 3 years old, but I'd like to see with the door test, and thermal camera if I made any mistakes in the insulation install. A few hundred bucks is worth it for the long haul.
Question.. for a couple hundred more I can get him to do heat loss calcs on the whole house. Should I bother? Will the real world burner hours logged against daytime temps get me close enough? I already know I'll be going with a 60k Vigas with 1000 gal of storage (two 500s vertical, parallel - man I'm happy I went with TALL ceilings in the basement. It's 10'5" or so to the bottom of the floor trusses)
So I'm really just doing calcs for pipe size and circ capacity from boiler to storage right? The storage will feed right into my buderus boiler, and using my normal 5 zones for the house circs and the 6th zone of indirect 80gal DHW tank the boiler sits on.
Learning a lot here. Gotta get cutting more wood. 70 acres of blow downs and dead standing to clean up. Got the tractor, utility snowmobile and all the toys to put to "work"
Thanks in advance
JP
House and garage is about 6k of heated square footage. High ceilings, all radiant.
I installed a hour meter on the boiler and have been tracking usage this summer and fall. I can W.A.G. at the heat generated. I use a mixture of HHO and homebrew biodiesel, so the calculations will be close, but not too scientific.
I'm having an energy audit done. House is only 3 years old, but I'd like to see with the door test, and thermal camera if I made any mistakes in the insulation install. A few hundred bucks is worth it for the long haul.
Question.. for a couple hundred more I can get him to do heat loss calcs on the whole house. Should I bother? Will the real world burner hours logged against daytime temps get me close enough? I already know I'll be going with a 60k Vigas with 1000 gal of storage (two 500s vertical, parallel - man I'm happy I went with TALL ceilings in the basement. It's 10'5" or so to the bottom of the floor trusses)
So I'm really just doing calcs for pipe size and circ capacity from boiler to storage right? The storage will feed right into my buderus boiler, and using my normal 5 zones for the house circs and the 6th zone of indirect 80gal DHW tank the boiler sits on.
Learning a lot here. Gotta get cutting more wood. 70 acres of blow downs and dead standing to clean up. Got the tractor, utility snowmobile and all the toys to put to "work"
Thanks in advance
JP