Saul MAHONEY's post
Saul MAHONEY
186 w
I'm planning to heat my home adopting the Jean Pain solution, using compost to heat up water for underfloor heating. I'm using the humanure from compost loo, but at the moment just trying to get the heat up in the compost itself...should be 55degrees. Hopefully it will work but if anyone has any experience in this area I would appreciate any advice.
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Thank you Connor, the hot water bottle tip is welcome, I am in the UK so will need to find ways to keep the pile active over winter...the 'price' of heating a hot water bottle to maintain heat for a house seems reasonable 👍
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186 w
Sounds great! I've seen this work as a hot bed for seed germination in green houses. The main challenge would be keeping your compost heap warm through the winter. In the UK, we have to add a hot water bottle to the compost heap to keep the microbes from going dormant. In theory, if it is well insulated, fed regularly with organic matter and oxygen, it should produce 55 degree Celsius heat pretty consistently! I would check out Open Sourced Ecology, they might have an open sourced design for something like this. Good luck!