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    Open fire back boiler plumbing advice please

    Thank you for clearing this up. It is 2 manifolds in 1 with a blanking disc in the middle. Apparently it's a Yorkshire Micrafold manifold.Quite a neat solution really, but they have stopped making them. It all makes sense now and I am relieved that we don't have to start re-plumbing. In fact, it...
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    Open fire back boiler plumbing advice please

    Sorry to bump this. Could any of you experts please tell me if the piping shown above, with flow and return, apparently, on the same manifold is correct? The rads get warm but I would like to make it better if possible. Do I need to get flow and return on separate manifolds?
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    Open fire back boiler plumbing advice please

    Hi all. We recently bought a cottage with an open fire that uses a back boiler to heat DHW through a gravity fed coil in the tank (with overflow into a tank in the loft) and also has a pumped circuit supplying 7 small radiators for background heat. We know that this set up is very inefficient...
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