Even more Home Improvements.

So...these last few months we have been busy putting up the new Car Port, next to Blue Moon, when we could afford the materials. Today we finished it.

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It is midwinter now Down Under and as the sun is lower in the sky our solar water heating system is barely heating the water. We have modified our wood stove by adding a section to the flue that contains a spiral of copper tubing that we hoped would heat the water, when we have the stove lit, by the thermo syphon effect...

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We have had difficulty getting it to work but we had some success today with Will adding a small water pump to circulate the water through the system.