Stove with back boiler

fishmanbin

Hi everyone, sorry now if this is a stupid question, but just wondering , our stove with back boiler heats the water and heats rads upstairs but not down stairs. We just moved into the house 2 months ago so don't no how it was plumbed! I thought if i kept the fire going all day the heat might come down, but it didn't!! Im just wondering is it a big job to get the down stairs rads heated off the stove? Or how could I go about it? Thanks in advance!!!

topcat77

A back boiler will badly affect your stove heat. You'll be basically turning it into a water cooled stove and reduce the burn temperature of the stove. Back boilers are banned in some countries due to the inefficiency of it.

Gadgetman496

fishmanbin wrote: »

Hi everyone, sorry now if this is a stupid question, but just wondering , our stove with back boiler heats the water and heats rads upstairs but not down stairs. We just moved into the house 2 months ago so don't no how it was plumbed! I thought if i kept the fire going all day the heat might come down, but it didn't!! Im just wondering is it a big job to get the down stairs rads heated off the stove? Or how could I go about it? Thanks in advance!!!

Upstairs heats by gravity but you need a pump to circulate the rising hot water back down to the downstairs rads.

If you have a circulating pump downstairs and it's working but not heating the rads, you need to lift the system. Lift is where you turn off all the rads upstairs via the valves for about 10-15mins while the heat is on and once the downstairs rads start to heat you can turn the upstairs ones back on.

whineflu

Unless you have an endless free source of stove fuel, it is always going cheaper to heat your rads using the oil boiler.