Wood stove to heat water

[richardwale]

Current set up is central heating and a wood stove. The stove pretty much heats the house, so the gas does the water. Our boiler is in the garage ( double ) accessed by the house as well as the garage doors. What I would like to know, is there a reasonably straight forward way of putting a stove in the garage, linking up to the boiler / pipe work and either heating the water in the upstairs water cylinder or putting a thermal water store in the garage and somehow heating that via the stove but plumbed into the heating system so as direct hot water from taps etc. As you can tell, I'm no plumber but am curious to know if it's cost effective or more hassle than it's worth!! Cheers

[Will Heal]

Kettle on the top?

[BARNSLEY BOB]

you have the best setup already.

 

or do you get your logs free, dried and delivered in your garage.

[richardwale]

I sell logs so basically I have unlimited supply

[CJM]

Seems like a massive faff on.

I run the same set up as you, for what I pay for gas £6 a month and have hot water any time of the day it's a no brainier......personally I would leave everything as it is

[richardwale]

Yup, think I agree. Cheers

[cornish wood burner]

Have you enough extra capacity in your wood burner to fit a back boiler. You would need to pipe it to run to your DHW tank by thermal not pumped to allow for power cuts.

Second burner and thermal store would not be cheap but you could run radiators off it then.

1st option might be worth it but unless you want extra heat you would struggle to justify the second.

[Breezeblock]

Have you enough extra capacity in your wood burner to fit a back boiler. You would need to pipe it to run to your DHW tank by thermal not pumped to allow for power cuts.

Second burner and thermal store would not be cheap but you could run radiators off it then.

1st option might be worth it but unless you want extra heat you would struggle to justify the second.

 

biomass boiler and tank and claim the rhi payments would be the other option

[Alycidon]

Get a plumber in, the issue is if you have a condensing gas boiler if you have a power cut no water gets pumped round the system, the water in the stove then boils and creates steam in about 2 minutes. You need to be able to automatically get rid of excess heat in that situation, usually that is vented up to a cold water tank in the loft but a condensing boiler does not have a cold water tank so one may need installing.

 

Boiler stove projects are best done in the summer, doing one in the winter is asking for trouble if you hit a plumbing snag and so may not have any heating until the snag is resolved. Having said that we are booked to be doing one in December, lady has been stalling it for 3 years.

 

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[AardvarkTreeServices]

You need to be able to automatically get rid of excess heat in that situation, usually that is vented up to a cold water tank in the loft

 

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Isnt the excess heat normally dumped via a gravity loop to a hot water tank or big rad? The vent to the tank in the loft is if things go pear shaped big time!!