Back boiler

[ferga]

If a stove or rayburn has a back boiler do you have to use it?

 

[REDSAW]

depends how cold you are??????????

 

[stevetheplumber]

If a stove or rayburn has a back boiler do you have to use it?

depends which fuel it uses

If a stove or rayburn has a back boiler do you have to use it?

depends which fuel it uses or do you mean do you have to connect it

 

[ferga]

depends which fuel it uses


depends which fuel it uses or do you mean do you have to connect it

Its an oil fired rayburn, it should heat domestic hot water (OF308 if that means anything to you). It's been plumbed in wrong tho and I want to know if I can run it ok just to cook on if there's no water in the pipes?

depends how cold you are??????????

i really need to get a life- that made me giggle out loud...

I'm cold. really cold. We've got an oil fired rayburn- it was plumbed in by a mate who'd just done an intensive learn to plumb in 3 months course who had no experience. He's since given up plumbing- seems he wasn't really suited to it.
We've ended up with a rayburn that should heat our water, it's not gravity fed tho, it's a pump that circulates, once the water's circulating it's fine but its a total nightmare to get the water circulating, the pump pulls air in to the system thru the pipe that's supposed vent the system.

Can we drain down the water and still run the rayburn?