Hi
I am thinking of putting in a woodburning stove with a back boiler leading to a hot water tank. My problem is the tank position in relationship to the stove. It looks like I can either:
1) Have a 1.5 metre rise from the stove and then 7 metre horizontal run to the hot water tank.
2) A gradual rise of 25cm over 2 metre length from the boiler, steeper rise raising the pipework to 1.5m above the stove (3m length of pipework) and then just over 3m horizontal pipework to the water tank.
The return flows will be similar but in reverse. I suppose I have two questions:
a) Is it safe to have a long horizontal section of pipework in a gravity feed system?.... or can you have no horizontal pipes.
b) Does the heat dump (in this case a water cylinder with a coil) have to be at the highest point of the system, or can the pipework continue to rise and then drop after a sufficient length of pipework in order to get the circulation working?
Thanks
I am thinking of putting in a woodburning stove with a back boiler leading to a hot water tank. My problem is the tank position in relationship to the stove. It looks like I can either:
1) Have a 1.5 metre rise from the stove and then 7 metre horizontal run to the hot water tank.
2) A gradual rise of 25cm over 2 metre length from the boiler, steeper rise raising the pipework to 1.5m above the stove (3m length of pipework) and then just over 3m horizontal pipework to the water tank.
The return flows will be similar but in reverse. I suppose I have two questions:
a) Is it safe to have a long horizontal section of pipework in a gravity feed system?.... or can you have no horizontal pipes.
b) Does the heat dump (in this case a water cylinder with a coil) have to be at the highest point of the system, or can the pipework continue to rise and then drop after a sufficient length of pipework in order to get the circulation working?
Thanks