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Jackthom: I don't get why it would be boiling when the store's only at 60. I know the gravity feed is slow but surely if there's 90 degree water in the stove and only 60 degrees in the store, the water's going to start moving pretty sharpish to balance out the temperature difference? there's...

So, maybe there's no coil on the stove/towel rail/cylinder circuit and it is a direct cylinder heated by the stove directly. This still doesn't answer what's going on. Fired it up last night and had same issue. Towel rail was hot but I could hold it without burning my hand. Cylinder...

Goldspoon: There is water in the header tank - checked last night Stove never got veryhot last night so didn't have the problem. It's quite mild today so probably won't fire it up too hot again tonight. Will post back when I've fired it up fully

Thanks all for your replies. jackthom: I haven't checked the temperature of towel rail or cylinder in this situation. I have an external thermometer attached to the cylinder so will fire it up again and check this. There is no way of controlling the amount of heat from the flames the back...

It's enough to scare the (large) dogs! So, we had a wood burning stove with back boiler installed at the end of last heating season. We didn't use it much. Now it's getting colder we've started using it for the first time in ernest. It's connected, indirectly to what I understand is a fortic...