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Plumbing wastage. Am I missing something

  • 28-12-2015 9:58pm
    #1
    gutteruu
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    I'm struggling to get my head around the inefficiencies in plumbing.

    On any given morning I have a hot water tank full of hot water (from stove the night before) but the house is cold and my rads are cold. Can this water not be sent around the rads to half heat house instead of wasting away?

    The heat from the exhaust of my oil boiler is probably enough to heat the house if I could exchange the wasted heat for fresh heat.

    When my stove is blaring the rads are roasting but as my stove cools it pumps cooler water through the rads replacing the piping hot water.

    Surely in this day and age you could plumb all the stats/valves into a controller and programme the heating to work as you want? I know very little when it comes to plumbing but it seems a little primitive given the big push for efficiencies these days? There are probably solutions to all this which I'd be glad to hear.


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


    gutteruu wrote: »
    I'm struggling to get my head around the inefficiencies in plumbing.

    On any given morning I have a hot water tank full of hot water (from stove the night before) but the house is cold and my rads are cold. Can this water not be sent around the rads to half heat house instead of wasting away?

    The heat from the exhaust of my oil boiler is probably enough to heat the house if I could exchange the wasted heat for fresh heat.

    When my stove is blaring the rads are roasting but as my stove cools it pumps cooler water through the rads replacing the piping hot water.

    Surely in this day and age you could plumb all the stats/valves into a controller and programme the heating to work as you want? I know very little when it comes to plumbing but it seems a little primitive given the big push for efficiencies these days? There are probably solutions to all this which I'd be glad to hear.

    Im not sure where to start. If you want to use up as much heat as you can from your oil boiler then install a condensing boiler.
    As for the stove, it shouldn't be pumping water any cooler than what the stat is set to. Water in the stove heats the cylinder from gravity so it doesn't pump through it. Maybe your system is piped incorrectly


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