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Tag Archives: Oil Boiler
Immersion heater verses boiler to heat water at home
Did you ever wonder whether it was cheaper to heat your hot water tank with your immersion heater or your oil/gas boiler? Well we have done the sums so you don’t have to. Below is a comparison between various different ways of heating your hot water … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Conservation
Tagged Comparision, cost, Energy conservation, furnace, gas, hot water tank, immersion, Oil Boiler
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Bleeding a Firebird Popular 90 oil boiler
I received a query from a reader today asking how to bleed air from a Firebird popular oil boiler. This stems from a previous article on servicing oil boilers, see here. I thought I might as well share the answer with … Continue reading
Posted in Technical & Discussion
Tagged bleed, firebird popular boiler, Oil Boiler, oil furnace, remove air, restart
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Servicing an oil boiler: Firebird popular range
With winter approaching now is a good time to get your boiler serviced. This will maximise efficiency and ensure that it runs problem free. I think getting your boiler serviced easily pays for itself by reducing your fuel usage and … Continue reading
Posted in Existing Building Issues
Tagged boiler repair, boilers, firebird popular boiler, Oil Boiler, oil furnace, service, servicing boiler
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Preventing ignition failure in an auger fed wood pellet boiler
A guest article by Ronan O’Reilly. A modern auger-fed wood pellet boiler with adjacent pellet store will need some yearly maintenance in order to avoid what is often referred to in wood pellet boiler manuals as an “ignition failure”. An ignition failure most often occurs because the weight of the pellets in the store is not sufficient to push enough pellets into the auger. Continue reading
Posted in Existing Building Issues
Tagged Auger fed, Guest article, Ignition failure, Maintenance, Oil Boiler, Wood pellet boiler
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The relative costs using different fuels to heat your home
In this post the relative costs of using different fuels to heat an average house during an average winters day are compared to see which is the most economical. Based on this process it would seem that the most economical is a wood pellet boiler, if initial capital costs are excluded. Continue reading
The cost of oil fired central heating per hour
In our house we have a boost button on our heating control panel. By hitting this button the boiler will come on immediately for one hour only. This got me thinking, how much does this button cost me every time I push it, or putting it another way how much does your home oil boiler cost in fuel to run every hour? Well it is relatively easy to calculate; I worked it out to be €1.20 per hour or €1.20 every push of the boost button! Continue reading
