Mr Paul Derbyshire.

Newbie here, first post on this site. No matter how you frame it, fitting a water-filled boiler to a wood stove results in a chilling of the firebox and thus less than perfect combustion. On the legal side alone this is now a no-no. Practically speaking there can also be problems with sooty flues, creosote build-up and such (hence the legal issues), as well as reduced heat output from the appliance itself. If you go to the Rayburn cooking range site (a sub-division of Aga, or was - I think there might have been some changes of ownership there too), you will notice that Rayburn no longer produce solid fuel ranges - wood or coal, whether with a boiler or not. The last new ones available were marketed in 2021 and even then, there were only a limited number of models using solid fuel and, I think, only one model that used wood fuel and had a boiler. Aga themselves ceased producing solid fuel ranges in the 1950's. A good resource is Thornhill Cookers (Kent), a company founded by Graham Thornhill. Beautiful cooking ranges but not one has a boiler and Graham gives reasons why somewhere on the site. The only way to go for wood heating of water for CH and DHW is a dedicated wood boiler but the system will cost you tens of thousands of ££'s. Then the labour to fit properly (plumber and sparky) will cost you a further four figure sum. Froling (Austria) seem to be the market leader. Here's a good video from several years ago highlighting that system.

Workshop premises on private land. Side street access off main Shakerley Road. Logs can be tipped straight onto available land. Will accept brash also.