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Thermal Storage for Cord Wood Boilers
The Benefits of Adding Thermal Storage to Your Cord Wood Boiler System: A wood fired gasification boiler can be installed in your home with thermal storage or without thermal storage, but to keep your system truly efficient, True North recommends that you add thermal storage to your wood boiler. A thermal storage tank is a … Continued
Cord Wood vs. Pellets
Maine has a long history of heating with wood – with forests covering 90% of the land in Maine, many of us have access to cord wood to heat our homes. However, once you’ve decided to get off oil, you may need to consider whether to heat with cord wood or wood pellets. Both fuel … Continued
Troubleshooting 101 : Your Boiler IQ
Have you ever found yourself without heat on the coldest night of the year? Did you call a heating contractor for emergency after-hours service only to find out you were out of fuel or had accidentally cut the power supply? If so, don’t feel bad! This happens all the time during the winter months, but … Continued
Home Performance and New Construction Services
Home Performance is an area of building science that focuses on creating a comprehensive solution to fixing comfort and energy efficiency problems in a home, or examining the building envelope for a new home that prevents these issues during the construction process. True North will work with your architecture firm, contractor and energy auditor (we … Continued
Free Home Heating Assessment
The first step in upgrading your heating system is a free in-home visit from a True North Energy Advisor. Our highly skilled team are trained to ask the right questions to understand your needs and the behavior of your home’s current heating system, but we take it one step further, identifying the ways in which … Continued
Why Get Off Oil?
Learn about the economic, social, environmental and political reasons to stop using fossil fuels to heat your home. There are many economic, social, environmental and political reasons to stop using fossil fuels to heat your home, but we think the simplest ones are the best: lowering your heating costs, reducing carbon emissions and investing in … Continued
