Yeah – biomass is what we are doing most of – chicken farm up north next – 3 x 200kw containerised boiler rooms for their chicken sheds.

Care home is in fife. Done some hotels, and a school in fife as well.

My techie guys are raving about the ETA – first one sold for a 6 house district eating scheme near St. Andrews.

I appreciate that we’re off original topic…but how is RHI adding to decision on commercial bio-mass projects, I am a surveyor so asking for actual experience info?

PS: Agree with Stoner on cakes, little people like cherries;)

Yeah – just say if op wants this elsewhere – thread hijacked.

Rhi is making commercial biomass a no brainier – rather than a decision to ponder.

Oil/LPG conversions to pellet will roughly cut bills in half. Example is care home – 49000 oil bill will be 26000 is in pellets. Project value was £130000 so five – six year payback. Add on the rhi payments of £25000 per annum for 20 years and it then shows a huge return.

Not so good on gas as pellets are roughly same price – rhi makes it doable if the business has a >five year plan

Emkl in profile if you want further info, meanwhile, back to he sheds!.

Continuing the hijack

Just a basic discounted 15 year cashflow comparison comprising budgeted system cost, RHI receipts and fuel costs based on heat requirement, maintenance costs, CRC levy, if relevant, all tax effected and discounted at company discount rate. RHI and maintenance cost generally inflated at cpi based on BofE target, gas price based on educated finger in the air, pellet price on uneducated finger in the air as the market is relatively opaque.

My experience is biomass should be competitive where there is no mains gas supply but not where there is.

I would agree with what mefty says a well.

but I think it is doable on gas when there is a large energy demand.

is biomass worthwhile for domestic uses, or is it better used in a commercial property?

is biomass worthwhile for domestic uses, or is it better used in a commercial property?

Unlikely if you are main gas, but otherwise maybe.

on oil as we are many miles from mains gas

any recommendations for a domestic biomass set up?

Not enough info mango

What size existing boiler, what annual spend on oil?
What space available for biomass?
Do you want to automate the pellet feed, hand fill daily/weekly?
Smoke control zone?

Mango – mail me if you want more info

timATj-twren.eclipse.co.uk

Thanks for the feedback on things to be considered, Bear, I’ll be in touch, cheers

Friday evening and no cladding update? 🙁

What a let down!

bin dun. no pics. chuffed with it.
will take pic and post tomorrow.
post shed building inebriation right now.
thank god for chrome spell check. I have no idea how to spell inebriation

Here we go.
Have relocated Mrs Stoner’s potting bench, it folds up out of the way.

The water butt will be moved from there and put at the end of the potting shelf once Ive picked up a bit of guttering to put on the end.

That staggered, “now-you-see-it-now-you-dont” cladding. took a couple of goes to get it set out right. My brain was on strike yesterday.

And bit of a win yesterday, a mate dropped round with 4 new sleepers (8′ x 12″ x 5″), proper choo-choo train ones that were surplus on a job he’s been running. No idea what I’ll do with them, but something will come to mind… 😀

Well worth the wait Stoner, I can’t see it being your last given the size of your coppice.

You can never have too many random, “can you do anything with this” deliveries.

Here’s a woodshed of a friend up on Speyside.

Here’s a woodshed of a friend up on Speyside.

Just needs a flue and it’s ready for moving in!

Is sunlight really blue that far north?

Is sunlight really blue that far north?

It was an early morning light and a poor quality phone pic.

liking the gable decoration..

liking the gable decoration..

It won’t fool the TV detector vans though 🙂

Is sunlight really blue that far north?

Don’t be silly, they don’t get sunlight that far north, the blue is just the phone’s flash…..