LPG Gas and Log Burning Stove combined ?

[chrismm662]

We have a log burning stove (installed 2 years ago) that drives our radiators, it works pretty well but as were selling our house we think people will want an automatic central heating system. We contacted Calor about installing an underground cylinder and using a gas boiler to drive the heating, however the guy from Calor said we would have to remove our Log burner ?

Anyone know if this is true ? Ive never seen it anywhere else ?

If you look on Calors website you can see they're promoting the replacement of log burners with LPG Gas boilers - seems the wrong way around in this day and age !

http://www.calor.co.uk/products-and.../switching-fuel-supply/switch-from-solid-fuel

 

[TCCHeating]

If you look on Calors website you can see they're promoting the replacement of log burners with LPG Gas boilers - seems the wrong way around in this day and age !

http://www.calor.co.uk/products-and...ng-fuel-supply/switch-from-solid-fuel[/QUOTE]

Calor sell LPG!

They would be idiots if they suggested anything else

Some people would see the system you have as a selling point, obviously its not suited to everyone but if you are prepared to do a bit of scavaging, and chopping, your system is becoming a more sought after option with gas prices as high as they are

 

[Corgigrouch]

They can be linked together and will work together very well indeed.... You could either link you existing cylinder to the stove and gas boiler via a dunsley neutralizer or connect them all through a thermal store... So the Calor man is talking through his hat.

Another way of thinking could be to fit a small pellet boiler/ stove.... Not cheap but bearing in mind the cost of burying a calor tank and being tied into buying only from them.... So the convinience of automatic heating and the new owners should love the tree huggy stuff......Oh and the fuel will be cheaper that calor or oil...

 

[dcawkwell]

You can keep your stove although integrating it properly into
a central heating system properly will be expensive.

You might want to consider oil boiler this can sit outside.

Find a local engineer who does lpg rather than calor.

If you have other methods of heating the house it might only be necessary
to run it off 47kg propane bottles. you could swap to bulk lpg tank
later.

All straightforward.

 

[chrismm662]

Got a quote for an external oil fired boiler as well, he said basically the same thing, you have to disable your log burner with back boiler, why is dealing with these guys always so painful ?
It seems like they just want the easy option every time, I just want to be able to run the log burner sometimes and the oil/gas heater sometimes, why is this so hard ? all they're doing is heating some bleedin water !

 

[Corgigrouch]

Two posible reasons....First because the customer usually wats the cheapest option and second because if he only does oil or gas, then he may not be familliar or confident with solid fuel or the regs that cover solid fuel

 

[dcawkwell]

Got a quote for an external oil fired boiler as well, he said basically the same thing, you have to disable your log burner with back boiler, why is dealing with these guys always so painful ?
It seems like they just want the easy option every time, I just want to be able to run the log burner sometimes and the oil/gas heater sometimes, why is this so hard ? all they're doing is heating some bleedin water !

Because doing it correctly is expensive and customers don't want to pay when they find out the cost. The log burner then looks very uneconomic to
install.