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Replacing a gas boiler with solar, wood, and floor heating: the build

April 2012 — sixteen months, a lot of concrete dust, and one system that works

The previous article covered the design. This one covers what it actually takes to build it in an Amsterdam apartment block with a flat concrete roof, existing floors that need to come up, and a flue that needs to pass through multiple reinforced concrete slabs to reach the sky.