Hi
We are tenants and have been having terrible problems with an oil stove heating/hot water system. The landlord has had engineers in to try to cure the problems but some still persist.
The latest is that the oil-fired stove with back-boiler is overheating (kettling) a lot, but oddly enough the hot water is not getting sufficiently hot to provide a decent bath full. It's a big stove, easily capable of putting out enough heat for both water and CH. The kettling is due mainly to a defective high-limit thermostat on the water outlet pipe of the stove, but could poor circulation/recovery in the hot water circuit be a factor?
The hot water circuit is gravity fed (with no motorised valves) and the central heating is pumped. I read on the data sheet on the side of the Fortic F3 hot water cylinder "the coil must be pumped". Is that likely to be the cause of the problem with the hot water? There is approximately 5 or 6 metres of pipework between the living room stove and the cylinder (in the attic) which is about 2.5 m higher than the stove.
The whole installation looks like a real bodge job.
Sol
We are tenants and have been having terrible problems with an oil stove heating/hot water system. The landlord has had engineers in to try to cure the problems but some still persist.
The latest is that the oil-fired stove with back-boiler is overheating (kettling) a lot, but oddly enough the hot water is not getting sufficiently hot to provide a decent bath full. It's a big stove, easily capable of putting out enough heat for both water and CH. The kettling is due mainly to a defective high-limit thermostat on the water outlet pipe of the stove, but could poor circulation/recovery in the hot water circuit be a factor?
The hot water circuit is gravity fed (with no motorised valves) and the central heating is pumped. I read on the data sheet on the side of the Fortic F3 hot water cylinder "the coil must be pumped". Is that likely to be the cause of the problem with the hot water? There is approximately 5 or 6 metres of pipework between the living room stove and the cylinder (in the attic) which is about 2.5 m higher than the stove.
The whole installation looks like a real bodge job.
Sol