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Adding Solid Fuel Stove to Heating System

  • 10-03-2011 11:07AM
    #1
    JackNow
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    Hi There hopeing i can get some info regarding my heating system and any advise is welcome.

    Currently my house has 3 zones. 1 - Hot Water. 2 - Heating dwonstairs, 3 - Heating upstairs. This is done my an oil burner and is an open system.
    In my sitting room i have a solid fuel stove and this gives off great heat, and i am considering replacing this stove with a back boiler stove so as to heat the rads downstairs of the house.
    The cylinder currently is single coil, and i would have to change this to a dual coil cylinder from what i read on this site.
    Also this cylinder is 25ft from the stove so i take it i would have to use a pump to pump water from the stove to the Dual coil cylinder. the question i would like info is Would this same pump also be used to pump hot water to the rads also? and where best locate this pump - in the sitting room?

    Kevin.


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


    Would this same pump also be used to pump hot water to the rads also? and where best locate this pump - in the sitting room?

    Could be. But not necessary.

    If you run ther boiler stove's circuit independantly on it's own you need a second pump. But you can use the boiler stove as well to feed the radiators directly.
    Some say that it would be illegal to run boiler stove and central heating boiler together. But that's shows only their incompetence, don't ask these people to do any plumbing for you.
    Any heating engineer and most plumbers would be able to install both thermal sources in combination, paralel or in a cascade. Whatever the clients want.

    The pump is usually installed at the cold side of the circuit.


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