User:Enalnoltelrac

I am just a retired person attempting to reduce my use of fossil fuel in heating the house and hot water. i read a book from the 1970's that mentioned automatic stack dampers and decided that I would obtain one and install it on my oil fired steam boiler. Because we heat entirely with wood we currently only use the furnace for domestic hot water. We are keeping the system operational because we want it as a backup. I don't pay the bills so I was shocked when I was told we burned approx. 700 gallons of fuel oil just to heat our hot water (two people who don't take a shower every day and use very little other than for cooking and dishwashing)

I insulated everything warm or hot around the furnace and the piping and installed a timer on the aquastat to prevent the heating of hot water except for for periods daily when we normally use it. But I found that I couldn't obtain an automatic stack damper for an oil fired furnace.

we are on a very limited budget so changing the basic system is not an option. I would like to find out why automatic stack dampers are banned and ploay a part in seeing to it that things are changed so that some portion of the fuel oil wasted up the chimney or out the vent is saved. Certainly the technology exists to overcome whatever safety or other problems exist.≥Enalnoltelrac (talk) 16:36, 21 January 2008 (UTC)