Jason_in_AK said:Howdy all. I've been reading the site for a few weeks absorbing the collected wisdom. The degree day calculation caught my eye as a good way to partially judge the raw amount of heating that needs to be planned for.
According to Wunderground the last year here in Tok Alaska had right around 15,000 degree days. I'm going to need a really big boiler aren't I?
I'm just buying a log cabin here, with the plan to put in a heated garage with a wood boiler soon.
Also.. if you go to the custom tab, you can enter any date range you want up to a year long and get a total of the degree days if you're looking for a quick and dirty number that you won't be correlating with actual wood burned on a given day.
ABGWD4U said:They better have awesome hunting and fishing up there for 15k HDD.
Wow Brrrrrrr. Do any of the locals use boilers? Danger of freezing would be a little spooky to me. Even a pump failure could be dangerous to linesets etc. Drove to Alaska when the highway was still dirt in the 70's and the name "Tok Junction" rings a bell. Is that where you're from? Have you lived in Alaska long, beautiful country for sure?Jason_in_AK said:ABGWD4U said:They better have awesome hunting and fishing up there for 15k HDD.
Oh, we definitely do! It's apparently been a really mild winter so far... it's stayed around 20 below most of the time, and only gotten down to -45 for a few days.
I'll be back bugging you guys for ideas when I get to the point where I'm actually ready to start designing the detached garage/boiler area.
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