ComposTumbler

My dad bought me a full-sized ComposTumbler that was delivered while he was visiting, so he helped me by assembling it yesterday. I have three composts going already (one open-ish pile in chicken wire and 2×4’s and two black plastic cube ones) which are producing fairly well, although the open-ish one is hard to manage. I’m thinking about transferring a lot of the material from the open-ish pile to the new tumbler. It has a whole manual about how to get 14 day compost but I do not have the correct ratios right now nor the interest to temp it, use activator, etc. so I’ll have slower compost but that’s not a big deal to me. It’s a batch composter, which means you have to stop adding material and let it “cook” to get the finished product, but that’s ok b/c I’ll still have the other composts to put my kitchen scraps in, etc.

WaterFurnace

I found a reference to the WaterFurnace on a different blog and was intrigued by the fact that that homeowner said one of the benefits of her system is during the summer, when the system is removing heat from her home, it redirects it to their water furnace so they get “free” hot water in the summers.