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Sherlock78
Hi,
We just lit our Snowdon 30 for the first time. Cylinder heated up well, however when I went upstairs to run the kids a bath (boiling almost) I discovered the heat sink was stone cold and water was constantly pouring out of the cylinder vent pipe (I presume?) back into the big tank.
I've been worried about this, as after looking at all the diagrams, earlier in the week I had to tell him that I thought he'd plumbed the actual stove in wrong (he'd teed the cylinder/vent pipe horizontally straight off the primary port, no rise off back of the stove), he had, and he changed it all.
I've tried bleeding the heat sink, just cold water comes out, no air.
All the pipes are the right size, however I've just seen that the flow into the rad is about 4" higher than the bottom of the water tank (on the other side of the wall), that doesn't seem right does it?
I'm going to try to get him back out tomorrow, I just want to know if you folks think it's safe to run the stove?
I've shut it down for now.
I've had old kettley rayburns before so I'm not scared of a bit of banging, but I'm just concerned that the heat sink is stone cold and I thought it was meant to be on whenever the stove is, if the hot water keeps pouring into the tank
And before you start... No, he's not hetas.
None of the 10 or so hetas guys I called (we're in rural Devon) were prepared to do the plumbing unless they fitted and/or supplied the stove too.
We've done up several houses, my husband is a very good carpenter/builder (he wont touch plumbing or electrics) and we've fitted several stoves ourselves so we weren't prepared to pay an extra 2k for them to fit the stove as well, just thought we'd get a plumber to plumb it in, the building inspector said our plan was fine, hasn't been back to inspect yet
So, 1.. should water be running constantly into the big tank?
2.. Is it safe to run (for tonight) as the cylinder is vented?
3.. Shouldn't the flow into heat sink be lower than bottom of the tank?
Many thanks
We just lit our Snowdon 30 for the first time. Cylinder heated up well, however when I went upstairs to run the kids a bath (boiling almost) I discovered the heat sink was stone cold and water was constantly pouring out of the cylinder vent pipe (I presume?) back into the big tank.
I've been worried about this, as after looking at all the diagrams, earlier in the week I had to tell him that I thought he'd plumbed the actual stove in wrong (he'd teed the cylinder/vent pipe horizontally straight off the primary port, no rise off back of the stove), he had, and he changed it all.
I've tried bleeding the heat sink, just cold water comes out, no air.
All the pipes are the right size, however I've just seen that the flow into the rad is about 4" higher than the bottom of the water tank (on the other side of the wall), that doesn't seem right does it?
I'm going to try to get him back out tomorrow, I just want to know if you folks think it's safe to run the stove?
I've shut it down for now.
I've had old kettley rayburns before so I'm not scared of a bit of banging, but I'm just concerned that the heat sink is stone cold and I thought it was meant to be on whenever the stove is, if the hot water keeps pouring into the tank
And before you start... No, he's not hetas.
None of the 10 or so hetas guys I called (we're in rural Devon) were prepared to do the plumbing unless they fitted and/or supplied the stove too.
We've done up several houses, my husband is a very good carpenter/builder (he wont touch plumbing or electrics) and we've fitted several stoves ourselves so we weren't prepared to pay an extra 2k for them to fit the stove as well, just thought we'd get a plumber to plumb it in, the building inspector said our plan was fine, hasn't been back to inspect yet
So, 1.. should water be running constantly into the big tank?
2.. Is it safe to run (for tonight) as the cylinder is vented?
3.. Shouldn't the flow into heat sink be lower than bottom of the tank?
Many thanks