grim_d
Unlikeable idiot.
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My farm 2000 will be in place by the time the bad weather arrives, wont cost anything to run
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That's super helpful for the rest of us.
My farm 2000 will be in place by the time the bad weather arrives, wont cost anything to run
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If you believe a word in the tabloid press, that's what all of our electric bills are going to be come winter.Just be thankful - we had a customer trial at a lab I helped out at. Electricity bill for the week long soak test was going to top £18k on it's own. Let alone the salary for us engineers who had to babysit it 24/7.
That's super helpful for the rest of us.
There are alternatives and with energy prices the way they are for the foreseeable future well worth investigating. I know of carpentry/joinery shops with sawdust boilers. garages with waste oil heaters and plenty of farms running biomass.
Bob
I've seen them...they are hideously expensive for me at the moment, being cold is free.
How big were the biscuits?Well this was about 6 years ago and a glorified 26kW kettle, it brought 12t of water to tea drinking temperature in an hour. Was capable of 500kW though.
Build your ownI've seen them...they are hideously expensive for me at the moment, being cold is free.
All of it is if you are buying new, if you dont mind fettling second-hand will do the same job for a fraction of the new cost.
Bob
I've got about £30
I know of carpentry/joinery shops with sawdust boilers
Build your own
Garages have to pay for oil to be disposed of
I thought you couldn't burn oil in a salamander anymore?
Saw one on Bedford bypass week ago last Fri, was it you? I run a 200kw Farm 2000, urgently keeps the farmhouse and one industrial unit warm, hope to get my new workshop heated from it but might be tricky given the location.My farm 2000 will be in place by the time the bad weather arrives, wont cost anything to run
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No you can’t. Has to be DERV or KeroI once removed the eyebrows of my boss with a load of sawdust. I had filled the woodburner with it -at his insistence - when it appeared it had gone out he checked on it by bending down and opening the bottom door, the ensuing blast clean took his eyebrows off!
I thought you couldn't burn oil in a salamander anymore?
No you can’t. Has to be DERV or Kero
Agree, half of it is just looking professional and being professional, being prompt with quotes , truthful about timescales etc will get you more work than trying to be cheap. Round here just getting a tradesman to turn up to look at at a job is difficult. Currently been waiting a month for grit blasting quote for a days work, might just buy the equipment myself be better in long run.I would argue that you shouldn't be competing with someone who is cutting corners. In fact, the best way to differentiate yourself from such a person is just to charge 2 or 3 times what they do.
Ive an ex french army tent heater. I can’t link it as there’s none on eBay.HA! thought so as I am mentally compiling a list of things I can use to heat the shop this winter, it has become a very small and narrow list, a salamander would have been ideal. Never mind, back to thinking.
Do the same as some garage bills I've had, list them as "sundry items"