Wood stove to heat water

[Alycidon]

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!!

 

Possibly, just depends whats in place, hence my comment to get a plumber in.

 

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[Martin Jenkins]

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

 

I started with just a wood log boiler stove (Dunsley Highlander 10CH) - but when my wife got sick, she couldn't light it. SO I have now got a Palazzetti Ermione pellet stove, to run in a different room, and alongside it.

 

I get £2000 per year just for having the pellet stove, for seven years, so that pays for it (this is RHI).

 

I can set the pellet stove to come on like a gas boiler, at 6am etc. - and then when I am home, I can light the wood log stove, and that takes over the water heating, and reduces the pellet usage.

[AardvarkTreeServices]

I started with just a wood log boiler stove (Dunsley Highlander 10CH) - but when my wife got sick, she couldn't light it. SO I have now got a Palazzetti Ermione pellet stove, to run in a different room, and alongside it.

 

I get £2000 per year just for having the pellet stove, for seven years, so that pays for it (this is RHI) u

 

Interesting. Did you qualify for RHI with the log boiler in service?

[AardvarkTreeServices]

Possibly, just depends whats in place, hence my comment to get a plumber in.

 

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But you'll always need more than just a vent to a cold water tank.

[Martin Jenkins]

Nobody has said otherwise - good point though, as I know you don't quality for non-domestic RHI if you have an oil burner as a backup.

[Martin Jenkins]

Possibly, just depends whats in place, hence my comment to get a plumber in.

 

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My log boiler goes to a vented buffer tank incorporating (about 170 litres I think), and there is a pump attached to a heat exchanger to take heat from that to the 300 litre solar tank, and onwards to the radiators.

 

The vented buffer with heat exchanger provides the link.

 

For oil boilers linking I have heard talk of a Dunsley linkage device - dunsley baker neutralizer link-up system

[richardwale]

Hi, what were the set up costs etc, and are the pellets cost effective v using seasoned logs?

[Martin Jenkins]

Hi, what were the set up costs etc, and are the pellets cost effective v using seasoned logs?

 

About 4.5k for the stove; my brother is doing the installation, so assume a couple of k for that.

 

Two ton of pellets cost me £420 - that was 65 bags, and I do not yet know how much I will use (it is actually waiting for my brother to install). My brotherinlaw is quite frugal with his, and does not use anywhere near a bag per day.

 

For seasoned logs, I do that myself, so the cost is time. And some fuel.