Recent content by trian

Maybe it can only be on and off?

Your ironic comment about Greece could strike someone as slightly rude, but being Greek I have to admit your are simply stating a fact. Anyways, since you took the time to answer, and given that reducing the size of the house is not an option (at least not in Greece) and fitting another...

I would appreciate some reasoning instead of the evident proposal to go down the road of calculations, which is exactly what I am trying to avoid. I am not a mechanic, but I understand the way heat loss calculations work: It involves a lot of guessing, of aproximation and of adding a big safety...

Thanks for taking the time to answer, Since it spends most of the time not working, it should be able to produce more than double the power it produces now, right? And if it can produce more than double of the heating power it produces now, and only need to cover less than double heating...

Hi all, Let's say we have a house that is heated by an oil burner. Even on the coldest winter night, the burner spends most of the time NOT working. Now, lets build another house, exactly the same as the first one, that has a common side wall with the first one. Given that: -Heated volume is...