Reconnecting the Dual Central Heating

Take_Her_Handy

Hi guys, I'm looking at buying a house at the moment and I'm wondering about the central heating. It is a oil heated house but at one stage was both solid fuel and oil central heated house! In both the dining room and sitting room there is solid fuel burners and the one in the dining room has the piping for the water supply behind it, just cut and left there! Now the stove is pretty small. But the plumbing for solid fuel central heating i suspect is there. There is no back boiler on the stove. I'm just wondering, at a guess if the plumbing was there and there was maybe a back boiler i could get for the stove, how hard would it be to convert it back to a dual fuel central heating system and roughly how much. I think last winter there was some water damage and the piping was looked at, there is all new rads through the house. Now i'm not looking for exact answers based on the info i gave but an educated guess would be welcome!

roy rodgers

Not been smart but your best bet would be to bring a plumber to the house and show him around to see if it would work. It could be a handy job, a day or two or it could never work..
Ya would have to ask yourself why was the stove disconnected in the first place???
Ya would have to check if the cylinder is dual coil??
If it can work on gravity???
With solid flue there is no room for error and do get a professional down to look at it because it could safe you in the future..

Take_Her_Handy

Right so, yea went looking a bit after i posted this and came to this conclusion myself! I've to go and look at the house again so I'll bring a plumber with so! Ah well, worth a cheap try