Gravity Ch

[SafeGasInstall]

Have you fitted gch to a wood stove ? Any advice please !
Not that I will be installing one just interest to know anything about them specially of a non contoured source of heat !

thank you

 

[tamz]

Never did it with a stove but when i was an apprentice we did a few houses with gravity fed hw and rads (you can do them downstairs too, even below the level of the boiler if you have a solum).
Pretty easy thing to do Stan but the heat is poor unless the fire is running full pelt. Really just a background heat.
Stoves can have much bigger outputs than open fires (the outputs are always exaggerated) so they will work better.

 

[SafeGasInstall]

Cheers Tom , much apriciatted as always !!!
merry Christmas to you and your familly !
have you got your self a Facebook yeat ?

 

[tamz]

Same to you and the family Stan.

I had a facebook but i switched it off because it attracted a lot of the dogs i'd been with in the past. My wee darling didn't like it.

 

[stevetheplumber]

to get downstairs rads you need to drop the returns below the boiler and come up to it they were usually one pipe system not very efficent

 

[SafeGasInstall]

if the cold feed is next to boiler and is a large size pipe like 2" and lets say 6m head will it not be able to push it enough to get circulation on rads in the same level as boiler ? i am thinking of 2 pipe system