Moving a dual coil cyclinder

vmg

Hi I live in a bungalow with an open vented system, header tank is in attic, I have solid fuel and oil central heating.

My question is the bottom of the dual coil cylinder is 3 foot ish off ground on a shelf, is it possible to drop this down to ground to give me room over the cyclinder for a hot press?

Any help before I ring a plumber so I can sound like I know what I'm talking about

Cheers

my3cents

With oil you can have your cylinder almost anywhere you want it. With solid fuel the HWC may need to be at a certain height so the boiler in the stove creates a thermo siphon moving the hot water around if there is no pump running. The idea is that even in a power cut you have something removing heat from your solid fuel boiler so it doesn't turn to steam and explode.

However there are plenty of poor quality not very safe installations which rely on the pump to be running to heat the water from the solid fuel boiler so ask your plumber how yours is set up.

You have easy control over an oil fired boiler but with solid fuel once the fire gets going it can't be put out easily so you need somewhere for the heat to go.

vmg

Thanks for the reply, the solid fuel is run off a pump and stat the flow goes up to attic and then down to the cylinder, yea I think I know what you mean the flow outlet on the stove and the flow inlet on cylinder are at the same height!! So if I go lower it won't circulate by itself only with pump?