Heating for winter!!!

From: "brian williams" pugturd50 at hotmail.com> on 2001.09.05 at 04:45:23(7346) We will be getting a huge boiler for the greenhouse this year coast about 7,000 bucks. It is said to be very efficient it is actually a furnace with water around the heated stove part. It heats the water and then sends a pipe into the greenhouse were a fan blows air threw the heated pipes to keep the greenhouse around 70 degrees fairly easily. One full load burns for 24 hours. Now I have looked at using some of the water to also heat the ground as well as the tables in the greenhouse. Has anyone dealt with any insulation of this? How well would heating the ground help? I was also interested in knowing how most people heat their water for watering in the dead of winter? Thanks for any info or guidance LOL +More _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

From: Carol Ann Bonner cadastra at mindspring.com> on 2001.09.05 at 15:21:48(7349) At 11:45 PM 9/4/01 -0500, Brian wrote: >iI was also >interested in knowing how most people heat their water for watering in the +More >dead of winter? My greenhouse is only about ten feet from my house, so the water for it comes from there, and I just had hot and cold pipes run into it. For a "mixer" I just use a standard faucet that is designed for a clothes washing basin which I also bought for the geenhouse - about $30 for the faucet and $40 for the basin. I adusted the temp with the hot and cold valves early on, and now whenever I water there's wonderful lukewarm water from the sprinkler head every time. The watering system is a little more complicated than that since another set of pipes supplies the basin and still another cold only pipe runs through a timer into the misting system. Carol Ann who has a lot of work to do on the greenhouse before cold weather arrives

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