Recent content by pfogwill61

Thanks Rhondo, very interesting. I know they can be used with pressurised systems such as a combi, but what makes them different? Is it electronics that shut them down when the system gets too hot? Is it that the others boilers can't take the pressure of the pressurised systems? Back to the...

When you say plates do you mean heat exchangers? Peter

Rhondo are you talking about something like this system http://www.heatandplumb.com/acatalog/Firebird_Wood_Gasification_Boiler_and_Tank_Package.html And if so linking the combi into the heat store? When the combi is on it puts water into the heat store? Is it the combi that still pumps the...

Thanks Rhondo but don't all combi boilers take heated water as the water re circulatsd around the system? Surely when my boiler has been on few minutes then hot water is entering the boiler to be heated even more? Wouldn't the water pass through the tank as if the tank was a radiator but...

But couldn't the combi be turned on and running through the tank in the loft when the woodburner was heating the tank? I read about some combi boilers being suitable to take heated water, but surely they all do as the water circulates around them. The water once it has travelled around the...

No Tibbot, I have the tank that was used to heat the radiators, and feed the hot water taps, it had quite a few connections and also an electric element for the hot water. I remember it used to rumble a bit when the electric pump that pumped the water to the rads was turned off. Peter

Wouldn't the tank I had already that was used for the solid fuel heating system and hot water be suitable for heat storage? Peter

Wasn't really planning on spending that much but would that price be all in including the boiler and everything else needed? Would it also be linked into my existing gas combi system? Would I not be wasting a lot of heat in my boiler room? Peter

Hi guys, I have been on here quite a few times and just decided to join tonight so I can ask some advice on the above. I used to have a solid fuel fire with back boiler supplying my radiators in my house, and a good heat they supplied as well but a bit messy, and a bit of a pain running in...