Recent content by solveweb

Thanks. It is hard water, but I do have a magnetic scale reducer fitted on the mains water feed - I would have thought that would do it? Isn't the water in the store itself pretty much standing water anyway? If thats the case then scale shouldn't be a massive problem, I wouldn't have...

Hi - I have a thermal store, about 6 months old, which was supplied by Newark with two temperature gauges pre-installed. This week I dug all the towels out of the airing cupboard to check what was going on back there, and I found one of the gauges seems to have sprung a small leak... See...

Leaking

I read somewhere today that "Gas Oil" (as used instead of kero to fuel some older oil boilers) is the same as the Diesel in my car... Now. I am currently undergoing a renovation of my property, including ripping out the old 1970's gas oil boiler and replacing it with a new modern Grant...

Wow. Agree with that! I can't ever see a thermal store working for any single source... Except log gasification I guess... Poor you. Thanks for getting back to me though.

Thank you. The series 90C controller looks like its designed for exactly this purpose.

Thanks Onetap. I've read quite a few of your posts in other threads already and I am starting to get there. Please excuse me if I am still making far too many mistakes though. Yes I think I was. I'm a (keen) novice, sorry! Okay so making sure my boiler condenses all the time is simply a case...

I am just starting out designing my own system - oil condensing boiler, wood stove, solar thermal, connected to a thermal store. I am a complete novice, but I am trying to get my head around it all! Please tell me if I am off my trolley!?!? I have started looking at control systems... and I...

Hi - Did you get anywhere with your thermal store solution? I am just starting out designing my own system - oil condensing boiler, wood stove, solar thermal, connected to a thermal store. I've got my own ideas but would love to hear about other peoples successful systems (and not so successful...

Hi - I think I might have found a use for a weather compensator on a thermal store - But I don't know whether its possible... If you could find some way of controlling the blend temperature flowing from the thermal store to the radiators (by combining two feeds one from top of tank one from...

Hi - Did you get anywhere with your thermal store solution? I am just starting out designing my own system - oil condensing boiler, wood stove, solar thermal, connected to a thermal store. I've got my own ideas but would love to hear about other peoples successful systems (and not so successful...

Thanks Tony I will be getting solar thermal this year definitely. My point was though, that I don't want to waste a few hundred quid on a DHW tank that's suitable for oil + solar coil, and waste money running pipes back to oil boiler for CH, when I am eventually going to maybe need to get a...

Hi. I know there are other threads discussing thermal stores vs combi boilers etc... But there is nothing that recent, and nothing specifically concerning combining heat sources.... I am doing a refurb including fitting a new heating and DHW system. We will initially be getting a new...