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 cylinder (integrated header tank) but also runs through a towel rail on the circuit.
The cylinder is heated overnight with an immersion.
Getting to the point, it's started making some pretty serious noises. Enough to make us stop using it.
It starts with a gurgling but builds up (I assume as the fire gets hotter) to what sounds like a loud metal on metal crack.
Only other things to say are that we're in a hard water area and we've only really been running this stove for a couple of weeks since installation.
Hot water is taken off the cylinder via another coil so that it comes out at mains pressure. The cylinder is on the floor above the stove/back boiler. The back boiler circuit is not pumped. The cylinder was installed new at the same time as the stove (March this year)
Anyone got any idea what might be wrong?
Is this seriuos?
Thanks,
Digby
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 cylinder (integrated header tank) but also runs through a towel rail on the circuit.
The cylinder is heated overnight with an immersion.
Getting to the point, it's started making some pretty serious noises. Enough to make us stop using it.
It starts with a gurgling but builds up (I assume as the fire gets hotter) to what sounds like a loud metal on metal crack.
Only other things to say are that we're in a hard water area and we've only really been running this stove for a couple of weeks since installation.
Hot water is taken off the cylinder via another coil so that it comes out at mains pressure. The cylinder is on the floor above the stove/back boiler. The back boiler circuit is not pumped. The cylinder was installed new at the same time as the stove (March this year)
Anyone got any idea what might be wrong?
Is this seriuos?
Thanks,
Digby