hi - wondering if this can be done....
I have part of my house heated and hotwater from an old rayburn stove. (woodburning now converted to gas) gravity fed into the watertank and a pump to circulate to 3/4 rads via a std 2 pipe system. open vented system with additional "heatsink" rad adjacent to the tank.
at the same end of the house (but at the back...) I want to install a woodburner. the missus suggested last night why don't we get a backboiler and use it for heating/hotwater too.... got me thinking.
how should/can I connect this into the current system.
can't gravity feed into the tank (too far away) but I guess I can pump this? or do I need to install a new dedicated tank (this then gets complicated...)
can I tee into the existing rad system and use the same pump to circulate (ie will pump through the back boiler on the rayburn and also through the woodburner), do I need a dedicated pump (wont the current pump effectively block the system if it is switch off....
assume I will also need an additional heatsink rad close to the woodburner (ie in the room above)
obviously the ceoncern on cold sunday with the roast cooking and the woodburner on full whack we will be genrating a lot of hotwater....
thanks in advance for advice!
I have part of my house heated and hotwater from an old rayburn stove. (woodburning now converted to gas) gravity fed into the watertank and a pump to circulate to 3/4 rads via a std 2 pipe system. open vented system with additional "heatsink" rad adjacent to the tank.
at the same end of the house (but at the back...) I want to install a woodburner. the missus suggested last night why don't we get a backboiler and use it for heating/hotwater too.... got me thinking.
how should/can I connect this into the current system.
can't gravity feed into the tank (too far away) but I guess I can pump this? or do I need to install a new dedicated tank (this then gets complicated...)
can I tee into the existing rad system and use the same pump to circulate (ie will pump through the back boiler on the rayburn and also through the woodburner), do I need a dedicated pump (wont the current pump effectively block the system if it is switch off....
assume I will also need an additional heatsink rad close to the woodburner (ie in the room above)
obviously the ceoncern on cold sunday with the roast cooking and the woodburner on full whack we will be genrating a lot of hotwater....
thanks in advance for advice!