Combi with the Cooker

[biggmw]

OK,
Bear with me please as these new fangled things that go on gas are new to me.

We have looked at a new farm we like and are maybe going to put in an offer.

The current system is a gas combi boiler doing hot water and central heating.

Bearing in mind it is a farm so gas tanked and therefor big money we would be looking to convert.

My question would be could we put in a Rayburn cooker, on solid fuel, without re doing the existing installation.

The rayburn would feed only the heating, tee'd into the system before the pump and the combi would still provide water on demand?

Just to save fitting tanks etc and still leaves the gas there to be on thermostat when we would not be there to keep a fire on.

Opinions welcomed.

Thanks in advance

Gordon

 

[giblets]

Dual fuel systems like this can be a bit of a nightmare particularly with regard to the connection to the existing system & control circuits. You really need to make contact with someone who is very experienced in this type of work.

The Rayburn, being solid fuel, will need some form of heat dump as it is not an on/off type boiler. This is usually arranged through the hot water cylinder & maybe a towel rail but as you have a combi this faciilty is not avaiable to you at the moment. It may be worth considering installing a hot water cylinder and using the hot water from the combi to serve the kitchen only.

 

[biggmw]

Thought I would bump this to see if we have any more info.

Have spoken to an experienced fellow who says it should not be a problem to 'convert' the combi to feed a hot water cylinder along side the cooker.

The central heating would be fed mainly from cooker but the combi could fire in if required (extra cold or fire out).

Does this sound ok to you wise peoples with regard to the fact that the main problem is the pressure difference in the two systems?

Talk of injector tees etc is floating about....

rayburns are nice and simple and this gas just complicates matters however it would be nice to have as a standby.... when fire out for whatever reason. (the other point is that the rayburn will be running at full rating to feed the installation so some 'help' wouldn't go amiss in cold spells)

The other route would be to scrap the gas altogether and just go with the cooker and a hwc.

Opinions welcome.....

 

[biggmw]

Bump again....

Can I through this into the idea pot for comments??

Anyone experience??

http://www.dunsleyheat.co.uk/neutralizerpics.htm

 

[gas4you]

You need to contact an engineer who is corgi and solid fuel registered, can't think what their body is called now. Keep thinking of heatas but don't think it is that

 

[chr15]

You need to contact an engineer who is corgi and solid fuel registered, can't think what their body is called now. Keep thinking of heatas but don't think it is that

You're right Dave- it is Hetas for solid fuel.

 

[gas4you]

Thanks Chris