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...

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...

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...

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...