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| holiday cottage |
Recently we went for a holiday in Wales again. Generally we would go to wales at least once a year. What attract us is the beautiful hillsides, hikes in valleys and mountains and beautiful waterfalls and yes, the quietness of the surroundings. You don't here buses, cars trains and horns the usual noises from london. It's quiet at night and you can sleep with your window open. Wales is bit more like upper hill country in Sri Lanka where I am originally from. Most of the landscape seems familiar. This time round we stayed in a converted barn in a farm called "The Beast barn" in Brecon Beacon. It's owned by farmer Chris and his wife Liz.
What we have noticed first was how beautiful and clean was converted barn - cottage we stayed in.
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| the kichen |
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| living room |
There was a small wood burner to provide the heat to reception room. But house was rather warm and cosy. There was no need to fire it.
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| beautiful wood burner |
House was quiet warm. Then we saw the big wood burner in the outside shed. The wooden oven produce the necessary heat and the hot water for the cottages and to the farmer's house. There is a water jacket around the burner. The water carries the heat from the burner and the same heat used to make water tanks hot as well.
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| Chris the farmer with his wood burner |
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| small but enough to heat 3 houses |
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| heat exchanger |
the heat exchanger used to heat the water that flow through the pipes. Chris collect the debris and wood from his own farm. It's a quite large farm.
This link explains how the heat exchangers work.
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| Wood and other debris for the burner |
This is the first part of a series of articles I will be writing about this holiday.
