Stove Cant heat radiators....cant be true??

Jonnykitedude

Hi Guys

Another one for you all!!

We installed a stove in one of our rooms and where planning on it heating all the radiators & water around the house, this was agreed with the builder at the planning stage but while away for a week he put down Qplex piping and poured the floors.
When I got back I asked him did all go to plan with the plumber etc and it was then he said that we couldn't heat the radiators because the piping was not the right one!!

The stove its self has copper piping going from the stove up to the boiler, could we change something along the system to heat the rads, our heating system is oil.

J

DiarmaidGNR

If the stove has a back boiler of course you can heat radiators off it, all you need is a circulation pump and a thermostatic switch along with some pipe work.
That said we have that set up on a large waterford backboiler, heating up the tank and the radiators (8 or 9), it works fine, but the fire needs a lot of attention, and it's debatable on weather or not the coal is cheaper than oil.

If you got the stove new, it will come with paperwork stating the max amount of radiators it can sustain.

mickdw

If the stove is plumbed to the cylinder, the main job is done. If it has a boiler in it, it has to have water circulating.
I think all you need is a different type of cylinder. Sounds like a chancer does your builder

Jonnykitedude

Yes the stove is plumbed to the cylinder and has a cold feed into the back of the stove too which comes from the tank in the roof space. Ill try take pics and post them.

bbam

Jonnygood wrote: »

and has a cold feed into the back of the stove too which comes from the tank in the roof space.

Surely that's an overhead pipe to the cylionder coil rather than a feed from a tank... Double check