Adding a wood burner.

godinman

godinman

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Hi All,

I currently have an oil boiler which heats a vented hot water system and runs the central heating, which is a single pipe pumped system, much like this -

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Now, if I wanted to add a wood burning stove with back boiler into a room that currently has a radiator and an open fire, would it just be a case of cutting the pipe and running one end into one side of the back boiler and the other end into the other side?

Or am I correct in thinking that I'd have to have at least one none-pumped radiator connected so that it doesn't overheat the water in the event of a power cut? Do I need some sort of overheat vent or would this be included in my current oil system?

Thanks for any help, I'll obviously be getting in touch with some sort of proffesional before doing anything but I'd like to get an idea of what I'm actually talking about before asking.:o
 
The only ones I have fitted run back to the cylinder that has multiple coils, the trickiest one we had was a woodburning stove, solar thermal, ground source heat pump, UF heating and a traditional boiler to top up.
 
It's not impossible to run the pipework back, but it is very difficult. :-/ I just want to add one in-line if it's allowed and wont burn/steam me to death in my sleep
 
maccapacca said:
The only ones I have fitted run back to the cylinder that has multiple coils, the trickiest one we had was a woodburning stove, solar thermal, ground source heat pump, UF heating and a traditional boiler to top up.
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That a pretty impressive set up, had a read about here.

http://www.gledhill.net/documents/Torrent_MultiFuelStore_Brochure.pdf

That's interesting, I'm surprised to see ground source heat pumps,are they back in fashion, they were all the rage must be 30 years ago, when my boss sent me to some company for day or two course to learn about them.
Can't remember why, but they went out of favour for a while, good to see them back.
 
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It's probably aimed at the French if you look at the site being English / French as their woodburners generally have fan assistance

I'd assume all you have to do is call the guy, the only disadvantage is you won't have a modern thermal store.

Wish I'd seen that 5 years ago I would have put one in my house.
 
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