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Solid Fuel Stove and Underfloor Heating

  • 30-01-2011 4:33pm
    #1
    BMD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I am building a 2900 sq ft house in which I am having UFH upstairs and downstairs (using an oil boiler). I want to include two solid fuel stoves, one of which will have a back boiler so that it can be used to heat the water and UFH.

    Can anyone advise whether this is possible?

    I am also installing HRV


Comments

  • #2
    Outkast_IRE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,516 ✭✭✭Outkast_IRE


    your best bet is to get a buffer tank and link all your different systems to it , that way you can keep them all independant and have one large thermal heat store to use as necessary , and an oil boiler to buffer is more efficent usually.


  • #3
    heinbloed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭heinbloed


    Outkast_IRE gave correct advice.
    If the buffer/thermal storage tank isn't an option then use a (plate-) heat exchanger. For the size of the house a simple, small boiler-stove wouldn't create enough thermal energy to store, a buffer might be superfluous. So a direct feed into the UFH would be possible.
    But calculate that youself.

    Forget the posting from " stoveadvice" , this person should go back to school.

    Quote:

    " ...does you runderfloor heating operate as a pressurised system ".

    Yessas, what else ...pumping without pressure, how that?


  • #4
    BMD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭BMD


    If I have solar, stove (with back boiler) and oil bolier, would all three be fed into a hot water cylinder that has a triple coil from which the UFH would be supplied?


  • #5
    heinbloed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭heinbloed


    Mmh, since you still haven't decided better contact your civil engineer.
    All can be done.


  • #6
    BMD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭BMD


    looks like its no problem

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055996301

    Thanks for all the feedback


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  • #7
    Coldplat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Coldplat


    Quote:

    " ...does your underfloor heating operate as a pressurised system ".

    Yessas, what else ...pumping without pressure, how that?


    Open vented heating systems have a pump but they are different from closed or pressurised systems, which are pre-pressurised. Putting a stove into a pressurised system can be very dangerous.
    If you dont know the difference between open and closed heating systems you should really refrain form commenting on the topic.

    Bad information can be extremely dangerous.


  • #8
    heinbloed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭heinbloed


    I'm missing the post of the poster " stoveadvice " in this thread, his postings as such. Were they deleted and this not being mentioned? Why?

    How did the OP got on ? Stoves installed, house warm?


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