Getting cold, but keeping warm

It's getting cold and winter doesn't feel very far away.

Our 300yr old buildings at How Caple Court always look good with their covering of ancient wisteria and virginia creeper, but far from any gas main we've relied on electric to heat our buildings.

However this year, Roger Lee (who owns the estate) has installed an amazing central boiler that's powered by wood chips. The wood must be correctly seasoned, so for the moment these chips are bought-in, but soon surplus timber from the estate's woods will be fuelling this boiler to make locally-produced carbon-neutral heat.

 

 

A whole heap of chips who's CO2 will grow a lot more chips in the local woods.