CASE STUDY: Estate House Installation

Baxi Solo Innova 50 Installation

Neil Austen and Stuart Bennett went to Denmark and spent three days at the Baxi factory, receiving lectures and hands on training in firing and commissioning techniques. This led to their being accredited installers of Baxi’s wood burning and multi fuel boilers.

 

Back in Cornwall, we met the challenge of fitting the Solo Innova 50 into an existing boiler room. Two 800 litre cylinders connected in tandem accept the heating loads and still leave space for a walk way. A new 1500 x 450 foam insulated hot water cylinder (out of frame) cares for domestic hot water to four bathrooms. To accommodate the increased expansion of the system (calculated at 150 litres) a new 300 litre head tank was installed in the loft. 

The entire heating load of 75,000 btu and the whole domestic hot water requirement can be met using dry wood from the estate managed woodland in the 50kW Baxi Solo Innova burning once, or sometimes twice a day. 

The house has formerly heated by an inefficient and expensive to run oil boiler but now grows its own fuel.

PROS:

-          Whole boiler run on waste wood from estate

-          Linked together automatic oil fired boiler with a wood burning boiler (50kW)

-          Developed bespoke system to fit into the property

CONS:

-          Incredibly labour intensive

-          Vast storage required

-          Wood needs storing for two years before it can be used

GOOD FOR:

-          Estate homes and manor houses

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