!!!! My city farm

Unfortunately, the boiler started leaking. Before winter, I flushed my secondary hot water heat exchanger and decided to buy a second one to replace it in case of contamination or breakdown. I was offered a more powerful used one. When it arrived, the lower pipe was bent, and I couldn't install it. They replaced it with a new one. I don't know how I installed it back then, but unfortunately, it started leaking from that lower pipe. Today, I couldn't install it until the retaining clip engaged, so I had to replace the old one. After I installed everything, water leaked from the pump valve when I started it. GPT chat advised me to tap on it to activate the valve and stop the water flow)))))). Thank goodness this happened when I was home and there was no frost. The large heat exchanger worked, but unfortunately, not for long. It was probably misaligned.

The weather is changing again, frosts are expected, which means there will be more shelling. It's snowing, and I still love this beauty. It will snow until morning, and I need to clear the snow from the panels and clear the ditch to prevent flooding again. I need to figure out how to organize it properly; maybe I'll lay down some plastic and some large stones on top.

It's snowing again, so I'm prepared to clear the snow away from the house. The brush and handle passed the test of heavy snow. Conclusions: the handle should be strong and flexible, and the brush at the end should be relatively heavy, as it also acts as a support point. It's a good thing I didn't experiment with different handles for the pool; I think they would have withstood the load.

Hi Bogdan and family (incl. dog).
I found you here through the Daily-ish. It was an interesting read, to read all your posts. I understand you are in a difficult situation there in Ukraine. Good to see how resilient you are.
Hope and pray for the best.

Inge Leonora-den Ouden wrote:Hi Bogdan and family (incl. dog).
I found you here through the Daily-ish. It was an interesting read, to read all your posts. I understand you are in a difficult situation there in Ukraine. Good to see how resilient you are.
Hope and pray for the best.

Thanks Inge, everything is fine, the severe frosts have passed, the snow is starting to melt and soon it will smell like spring.

It's such a strange feeling, a few calm days. No frost, no floods, no critical situations, and for some reason this calm is very depressing. It happens, you have to go light a fire in the stove and know that this state will end and everything will be okay.

bogdan smith wrote:It's such a strange feeling, a few calm days. No frost, no floods, no critical situations, and for some reason this calm is very depressing. It happens, you have to go light a fire in the stove and know that this state will end and everything will be okay.

My hunch was right, it was really loud last night. It means there will be a few quiet days, I need to get myself together and get to work.

Tomorrow is the first day of spring. I sorted through the remaining firewood, and I'm happy with the remaining supply. This year I burned more gas than usual, but thanks to the stove being connected to the main heating system, the house was very warm, despite the severe frosts compared to previous years. The most dangerous time is over, and now, thanks to the remaining firewood, I'll be saving gas. I have an old Vaillant turbocharged boiler, and I tried to turn it on more often during cold weather, since turbocharged boilers often suffer from burst heat exchangers. I used a thermostat, and the boiler turned on at temperatures below 18°C. The thermostat was located in the coldest place in the house, in the hallway, but after I installed the stove there, this place became the warmest. Now I'll turn off the boiler at night, turn it on for two hours in the morning, and then I'll use the stove and air conditioners for heating.  Incidentally, in the summer and fall, when I had excess solar energy, I placed an infrared heater near the firewood and dried the wood as well. It was certainly very hot on the veranda, but because I insulated that wall, it didn't affect the temperature in the house, and at night, with the veranda door open, it cooled down. This has yielded results, as I can see from the wood burning, and I've also reduced the amount of time I spend cleaning the chimney. I'll continue this experiment this year.