Hi all,
I'm installing a boiler stove to the conservatory and instead of interfering with the existing pressurised CH system have decided to add two or three rads with open vent F&E tank etc. Most of the pipework is already in the attic including the tank since my old CH system was changed with the installation of a new gas boiler a few years ago.
I plan to run pipework from the stove along the skirting and then up into the attic and down to the new dual coil cylinder I changed recently with help from this forum
.
The problem is that I have no way of running a pipe back to the stove from the cylinder without going up to the attic first and so I would not have gravity DHW circulation.
What I am thinking of doing is installing an old rad in the attic which would normally be isolated by way of an electric valve - if the electricity supply is disrupted, then the valve would open and the heat from the boiler would dissipate. Would this work?
I'm installing a boiler stove to the conservatory and instead of interfering with the existing pressurised CH system have decided to add two or three rads with open vent F&E tank etc. Most of the pipework is already in the attic including the tank since my old CH system was changed with the installation of a new gas boiler a few years ago.
I plan to run pipework from the stove along the skirting and then up into the attic and down to the new dual coil cylinder I changed recently with help from this forum
.The problem is that I have no way of running a pipe back to the stove from the cylinder without going up to the attic first and so I would not have gravity DHW circulation.
What I am thinking of doing is installing an old rad in the attic which would normally be isolated by way of an electric valve - if the electricity supply is disrupted, then the valve would open and the heat from the boiler would dissipate. Would this work?
