New, modern yurt build in Mongolia

[TSRalex]

Originally Posted by UKadventurer

What have I learned?

That shit happens?

No - serious now:

Really a bad situation you have had, but you are a clever guy and you made right conclusions.

Good luck in solving that all....

[UKadventurer]

Originally Posted by TSRalex

That shit happens?

No - serious now:

Really a bad situation you have had, but you are a clever guy and you made right conclusions.

Good luck in solving that all....

Luckily, as an early retiree, I have time to figure it out, improve, learn etc.

Each mistake I make, I learn what NOT to do next time.

One thing I've learned is you can't rely on one system of

heating

on a camp. The cheap, dumb ones (semi-coke and firewood) are labour intensive. I've realised I could run the system I have efficiently IF I spend 18 hours a day monitoring and adjusting it. That's a double shift job 7 days a week in the

heating

season which is about 6 months! Even with my free time, that's impractical and not how I want to spend my time.

Electricity would be the easiest system in theory but only fools rely on the grid system even in a highly developed country. Didn't Texas have a big problem with inclement weather, failure of the grid and an over reliance on electricity as a means of heat?

I'm researching coal boilers now that have some level of automation. Specifically these features:

• Thermostatically controlled blower.
• Barometric damper.
• An alarm that would wake the dead if there's an impending over boil.
• Some means of monitoring/adjusting the boiler heat remotely.
• Larger capacity for once a day cleaning and refueling.

Yesterday, I spent several hours thawing out some pipes and a radiator with a blow torch and a thermal infra red camera to "see" the ice. Not much fun but ultimately successful.

In our living situation, a thermal camera is very, very handy. I imagine it would be handy for anybody with extreme hot or cold temperatures.

Here's a progression of thawing out frozen pipes and then a big radiator in my insulated container. I find this very interesting. I hope others do too.

In the first image, the hot water is hitting ice in the feed pipe.



Starting to progress a bit in the hot water pipe.



It's reached the radiator.



Finished. The radiator, feed pipe and return pipes are at operating temperature. Yay!