Sunday 28 January 2007

Wood pellet boilers

As it takes about 3 months to have a wood pellet boiler delivered after you order it we need to decide fairly soon what we are going to do about it if it is to be installed during the summer. The current boiler shed is marginally too small to hold the boiler and hopper so we need to extend it. We also need a place to store pellets, or wood (we'll get a multi-fuel boiler so we're not tied to pellets). Should we put the new shed beside the current boiler shed, at right angles and out into the garden? While we are at it wouldn't it be nice to have a small greenhouse that could be at the south side of the new shed?

The other main option is to put a shed south of the current oil storage thing, where there is currently a not-very-successful flower bed that Goldie loves to dig up. Then a greenhouse would probably have to be free-standing, which would make it colder. I'd prefer it to have one brick wall on the north facing side of it. We also have to consider how to extend the current boiler house for the boiler and hopper - maybe we could extend it out a bit where its door currently is. It would be good not to have to re-do the electrics and pipe-work so we'd like to maintain its current position.

Also, how can we make the tarmac area that used to be for basketball into something more useful? It just gathers loads of moss at the moment.

Decisions, decision, decisions.....

And I pruned the pear trees (B reminded us that they are pear trees so don't produce prunes, but we ignored him) this morning. I also tried to remove some of the green stuff at the front of the house on our formerly nice white paint-work.

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