Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:07:16 +0100 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.0.3 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9839#Comment_9839 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9839#Comment_9839 Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:00:08 +0000 pete710
Plumbers & heating engineers are rare a rocking horse poo down here so I am going to do as much as I can myself & get it sighned off before going live & will get advice along the way.

My 2nd problem is my Dads house, they spent 5k having an oil burner fitted 5 years ago, it was always too hot & they used to have the windows open with the boiler on all the way tough the winter as even set on the lowest setting it was too hot, they have since given up on the oil as they are skint & have decided to jump on the free wood wagon from my brother.

We are removing the old oil burner & they have bought a wood burner with a back boiler, they used to run about 3 rads off it aswell as hot water, my question is how easy is it to change them over & how & also would they need to replace the current liner which was fitted with theoil burner? I heard that they would need to change the tank in the attic to a stainless one, is that right?

any help or advice on these would be very welcome.

thanks for reading
pete]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9842#Comment_9842 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9842#Comment_9842 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:37:25 +0000 Terry https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9854#Comment_9854 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9854#Comment_9854 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:38:15 +0000 pete710
any idea why 2 are not shown,

once again any help would be wecomed.

ta
pete]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9855#Comment_9855 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9855#Comment_9855 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:07:46 +0000 tony https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9856#Comment_9856 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9856#Comment_9856 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:16:08 +0000 pete710 it has the flow going up through the hot tank in the airing cupboard & rads, my Dad thinks the rad system is a closed circuit, not gravity, as you can proberley tell I have not clue about what I am talking about but trying to get info on my Dads behalf (who has less of a clue, but won't admit it!)

does this make sense?
pete]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9859#Comment_9859 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9859#Comment_9859 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:33:00 +0000 tony
I dont think that you should be doing this -- can you put a load of digital photos up or get someone in?]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9877#Comment_9877 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9877#Comment_9877 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:25:53 +0000 martinlta
I have installed and tested a low cost woodstove adapted to make it clean burn and added a carefully positioned back boiler. The back boiler feeds by gravity into a thermal store from which mains pressure hot water is generated via a plate heat exchanger whenever the store is above 50C. If below this hot water is heated by my gas combi boiler as per usual by switching solenoid valves. I have now added a second plate heat exchanger to feed heat into the gas central heating circuit (closed circuit) which is enough for three rads. My gas use is now down by 80% as the wood is free! and I do not require heating in kitchen were the stove is and in the room next door. I reckon the cost of the whole install was about £600 using as much eBay parts as possible and pluming it in my self. I have an option of solar input as the tank has a standard coil in the lower half. Just waiting for the price of evacuated solar heating tubes to fall before completing the system]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9890#Comment_9890 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9890#Comment_9890 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:44:44 +0000 pete710
It seems that the whole heating & hot water system is open vent & there is a pump, connected to the rads up stairs under the hot tank, there are 2 open water tanks, a little one which sits on top of the hot tank in the airing cupboard & a bigger one in the attic, the little one has 2 overflow pipes over it

any clearer?

pete]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9898#Comment_9898 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9898#Comment_9898 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:19:33 +0000 tony https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9930#Comment_9930 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9930#Comment_9930 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:31:38 +0000 pete710 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9943#Comment_9943 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9943#Comment_9943 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:58:40 +0000 tony https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9946#Comment_9946 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9946#Comment_9946 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:24:34 +0000 pete710 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9947#Comment_9947 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9947#Comment_9947 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:46:15 +0000 tony https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9953#Comment_9953 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9953#Comment_9953 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:49:33 +0000 pete710 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9955#Comment_9955 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=906&Focus=9955#Comment_9955 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:40:43 +0000 tony