Hello,
My current installation is an 8Kw Morso Stove, about 20 years old, connected to:
We have another heating system so we hardly ever use the Stove.
The hot water header tank (and the stove header) are in a cupboard only 2 meters from bathroom floor height, so the head is poor, and a shower (other than an electric one) is impossible upstairs.
So, we are having the vented cylinder replaced with an electric only unvented one, which does not come with an indirect coil. (This of course is not a DIY job!)
Where the coil was will be bypassed, and so there will be just the bathroom Towel Rad on Gravity, and the other rads will kick in sooner, once the towel rad circuit gets warm.
My Question.
I would like to install a replacement radiator in the bathroom for the following reasons:
1. I want to add an electric element to heat the bathroom via the bathroom rad, when the Stove is not in use.
2. There is not enough height in the alcove where the bathroom rad is situated, to add an element to the existing rad, as it is tall and narrow.
3. The rad looks like it is only 400-500 watts, and I would like to have a better heat sink, having removed the water cylinder coil. I read that about 10% of the Stove output is advised - so that would be 800 watts.
The current rad works fine, but it is not plumbed as a gravity rad - the input and output are both at the bottom. Also, it seems to be only 15mm pipework (about a metre) that is visible in the bathroom.
I found a bigger radiator that I liked to look of, a double 600x600, that is about 900W. But the makers say it will only work in my system if there is "good pressure". I don't know what that means, and my plumber seems possibly a bit unsure about the gravity side of the work.
So my question is - Can forum folk advise me what sort of rad will work in my situation?
(This is the one I like: Urban Horizontal Radiator | White Finish | From Victorian Plumbing )
My current installation is an 8Kw Morso Stove, about 20 years old, connected to:
- An indirect coil in a vented cylinder (on the ground floor where the heater is, but raised by about 80cm), gravity fed with a bathroom towel rail upstairs also gravity fed.
- Once the gravity circuit is up to temp, a pump kicks in to circulate the heat around three radiators.
We have another heating system so we hardly ever use the Stove.
The hot water header tank (and the stove header) are in a cupboard only 2 meters from bathroom floor height, so the head is poor, and a shower (other than an electric one) is impossible upstairs.
So, we are having the vented cylinder replaced with an electric only unvented one, which does not come with an indirect coil. (This of course is not a DIY job!)
Where the coil was will be bypassed, and so there will be just the bathroom Towel Rad on Gravity, and the other rads will kick in sooner, once the towel rad circuit gets warm.
My Question.
I would like to install a replacement radiator in the bathroom for the following reasons:
1. I want to add an electric element to heat the bathroom via the bathroom rad, when the Stove is not in use.
2. There is not enough height in the alcove where the bathroom rad is situated, to add an element to the existing rad, as it is tall and narrow.
3. The rad looks like it is only 400-500 watts, and I would like to have a better heat sink, having removed the water cylinder coil. I read that about 10% of the Stove output is advised - so that would be 800 watts.
The current rad works fine, but it is not plumbed as a gravity rad - the input and output are both at the bottom. Also, it seems to be only 15mm pipework (about a metre) that is visible in the bathroom.
I found a bigger radiator that I liked to look of, a double 600x600, that is about 900W. But the makers say it will only work in my system if there is "good pressure". I don't know what that means, and my plumber seems possibly a bit unsure about the gravity side of the work.
So my question is - Can forum folk advise me what sort of rad will work in my situation?
(This is the one I like: Urban Horizontal Radiator | White Finish | From Victorian Plumbing )