In this informal walkthrough, the homeowner demonstrates how a Central Broiler wood‑gasification boiler supplies heat and hot water to a 1,400‑1,600 sq ft house on a 75‑acre homestead. After a professional installation, the system is powered on with a small electric draw and a backup generator. The speaker starts a fire, explains how the blower and pump circulate hot water (≈190 °F) through insulated lines to two domestic water heaters, a coil heat‑exchanger in the ductwork, and ultimately to room‑air via a furnace fan. The boiler burns wood chips and logs harvested and processed on‑site, eliminating the need for oil or grid electricity. The gasification process reduces smoke and creosote, and the system automatically modulates output to maintain the thermostat setting. The video highlights the practical benefits—energy independence, low operating cost, ample hot water, and a self‑sustaining fuel supply—while noting minor details such as the generator, occasional supplemental fire, and lighthearted moments with the homeowner’s cats.
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This Central Broiler, not an ad, heats our entire house. 1,400-1,600 square foot living space plus 2 hot waters with firewood. That means we're not using oil or electricity to heat our home. First, once it was installed by a professional, you turn the power button on. It does run by a little bit of electricity, just a little bit, but we do have a generator It will keep it online in the event of a power outage. And really, we just started a fire in there. It's just smoldering right now. We just started a fire in there. See, I opened that and the blower came on. It's, it's so easy to start a fire because of that blower. And look, it keeps it at— what are we at, 189 right now? That's the water temperature. So this is a wood boiler, so it's boiling water Well, I don't know if it's boiling water. Well, it's 190 water, and that's what it's using to heat the house. I'll show you in a minute. We filled the top with, I mean, a bunch of water. We've got a chimney and it goes out above our bedroom window there because we tried a shorter one and the smoke just got blown in there and it was a little rough. By the way, there's not a lot of smoke. This is a gasification stove, so it burns its smoke. Burns its creosote. I located it right here in the back of our house. We have wood sheds, wood curing here. Trucks can come and dump wood here, and then we stack it. And really, guys, I don't even have to go outside. I can go through my shop there, there's some stairs, and go straight upstairs, and I would never have to go outside. The firebox is in there. It's absolutely huge. It will burn one good strong cartload load or one good strong wheelbarrow load in the morning, and then in the afternoon here, I guess, is the— well, they call it the reaction chamber. That's where I believe it burns the smoke. That's also where our ashes come. See what we got there. We got some coals have fallen down. Yes, that is a lot of wood, but guess what? We didn't have to import any fuel, and we live on a 75-acre homestead where most of it is in forest, and we're thinning out a lot of those forests to create pastures. So we have all this wood anyway, why not create our own fuel from our own farm? And while we're at it, we'll grind up the branches and make our own wood chips. So we have our deep bedding and our fuel source all off the farm. This is heating it up. It comes down, which by the way, we have a pump there and we turn the pump on once it gets to a certain level after starting it. And then we open up our water lines, and then there's an insulated water line going right through there into the house. Let me take you to the other side. I'm on the other side. You can see it's coming through, and it's in our basement crawling through, rolling through these red lines. Now they come through, goes to one hot water heater And then keeps going. Now it's come back out into the hallway because eventually it's got to cross over, and it's coming into our furnace room. Oh look, the cats are no dummies. They get in here. It's nice and warm. It's nice and warm. Well, you guys are warm in here. It comes into our other hot water heater. Look, I don't know, it's some kind of plate that— I'm telling you, it heats this hot. Another line goes over to the vent. You hear something, right? We do run our furnace fan, so it takes a little bit of electricity for that, pushes it through our vent system. Guys, it's not like a radiating stove or anything. It comes through our ductwork. There's a coil. It's— the water is heating up. I wish you could feel this. This is nice and warm. These are coils that are hot, and the air is pushing through there, and so it's heating it up. This is, this is brilliant. I'm tickled with the system. We've had it for a while now, you know. I didn't know, it's my first time with it, but it's absolutely amazing. Okay guys, good night. I think— how did you guys get in here? The door was shut. Okay, I better leave the door cracked. I want to starve my cats inside. No lie. All you do is adjust the thermostat like any other heat system. Beautiful One likes it warm. It's on 73. Still needs a little more heat. We do have the Beautiful One a fire, so this is a little bit of a supplement heat. Not needed, it's ambient. It gets it extra hot in here, and then the wood boiler doesn't have to work as hard. What's cool about that is it slows itself down automatically or speeds itself up to keep whatever we have it set to on the thermostat. The real kicker is this hot water. Oh my word. That's too hot of water to scald a chicken in. That's our wood heating system. Extremely satisfying with it. There's something really cool about being able to provide 100% of our own heat from the land. Wow, you were going so nice past you, and I ran down and I almost crashed. I turned and you ran right into me.
