multifuel stove with back boiler installation

[coldoz]

hi,
I'm a regular reader of your pages and have picked up loads of handy hints in the past - and now it's my turn to ask for help.

I'm about to install a multifuel stove (which I've yet to buy) to replace a Rayburn Rhapsody which gave up the ghost after 40 years of good solid service. While I'm at it I'm removing the old hot water cylinder which was in a cupboard next to the fire place and moving it upstairs.

It's a really old farm house (C1600-ish)so it's been interesting taking out the old brickwork around the fire place and uncovering past fireplaces and slowly making my way back to the original stonework in the inglenook.

now - when i phoned my builder merchant for a cylinder he started umming and sucking air whilst mumbling something about "stretched coil cylinders". Neither I nor anyone I know have heard of these before.

Also he said that the plumbing is very complicated and refused to say why!
I'm an experienced electrician and instrument craftsman with a basic knowledge of plumbing- what's he on about???

any ideas??

 

[Goldspoon]

Ignore him. What do you want to know to help you with what you want to do?

 

[ajstoneservices]

now - when i phoned my builder merchant for a cylinder he started umming and sucking air whilst mumbling something about "stretched coil cylinders". Neither I nor anyone I know have heard of these before.

You'll find it's his way of describing a gravity coil.

 

[coldoz]

AAAAHHHH! Cheers!

is that all it was?? blimey.

 

[coldoz]

Ignore him. What do you want to know to help you with what you want to do?

I just need to know what kind of cylinder I need really - the builder merchant threw a few spanners in the equation! (running a vent pipe isn't a problem)

Also if anyone has a schematic of the layout for the plumbing it would be muchly appreciated (just to confirm what I'm about to do is the safest and most efficient way).
I'm only heating my water -not installing any rads.

 

[doitall]

I would be looking at AVC smartline SLE cylinders.

 

[Goldspoon]

http://www.stovesonline.co.uk/central_heating_wood_stove.html

 

[coldoz]

cheers guys!