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Dual coil or not?

  • 16-02-2015 2:35pm
    #1
    MayoForSam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭


    We recently got in a solid fuel stove and it was plumbed in to essentially offer an alternative to our OFCH (which can still heat the rads if needed). We decided to leave the single coil tank alone, using the stove to heat the water in the tank and have the immersion as a backup (running off a timed booster switch).

    My missus is now complaining that we don't have enough hot water if the stove isn't kept on the whole time and she wants to install a dual coil tank, so we have the option of heating the water using the stove or the oil boiler. Before, we used to have loads of hot water but I'm thinking this was uneconomic. My head is telling me we would be able to heat a lot of water using the immersion for the price of installing a dual-coil cylinder (€300-400).

    Any comments/advice?


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  • #2
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,870 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    MayoForSam wrote: »
    We recently got in a solid fuel stove and it was plumbed in to essentially offer an alternative to our OFCH (which can still heat the rads if needed). We decided to leave the single coil tank alone, using the stove to heat the water in the tank and have the immersion as a backup (running off a timed booster switch).

    My missus is now complaining that we don't have enough hot water if the stove isn't kept on the whole time and she wants to install a dual coil tank, so we have the option of heating the water using the stove or the oil boiler. Before, we used to have loads of hot water but I'm thinking this was uneconomic. My head is telling me we would be able to heat a lot of water using the immersion for the price of installing a dual-coil cylinder (€300-400).

    Any comments/advice?

    What is the stat set to?


  • #3
    MayoForSam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭MayoForSam


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    What is the stat set to?

    60C.


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