This exodus must have been quite massive too, the threads on lazy vegetable gardens were very rich in information and members. I discovered the forum through this like many others I think.

Yes, I read this thread at the time, it is funny but I am one of those who think that the enlightened dictator must decide him...

Yes, finally there are heaps of forums where it goes much more smoothly.
In your place, I would have long since played the enlightened dictator and fired certain toxic members for the forum but you are the boss here and I also understand your approach very well.

I'm not new here, I had a hard time with Janic in 2017 and I had stopped following the forum partly because of that (it can be quickly tiring and time-consuming to talk to a wall).

You lost a very important member with Did, it's a shame, he had very relevant interventions in all areas I think.

I've read the old pricing thread extensively as well as the very long thread on oekofen consumption tracking with local experts Did67 and Darkpitt. This forum is a goldmine...

I had a lot of help (3000€ reimbursed on the 4100€ of solar thermal) and above all I find it sad to convert solar energy into electricity and then heat water, it's so much more elegant intellectually to convert directly into heat I find. Without ai...

Yes I know and I am convinced that in the long term the pellet will remain much more stable than the elec. Let's say that it allowed me to experience this transition and I will do it again better in my next house (I think I will stick to it myself for PV and solar thermal, that makes me...

I had hesitated for a long time with a heat pump and I believe that this year the heat pump would have cost me less in heating than pellets, but I have high hopes that in the long term pellets will once again become competitive with heat pumps.

I'm sure he's worse than you. He wanted to put me an 18kW boiler at first, I insisted on 12 and it's still too much, I would have to restrict it to 9 according to my sizing calculations. It is not very expensive, however. I got it for 18500 with the 2m45 by 1m85 silo charged...