central heating fro stanley range

[owein]

Can anyone help please?

I currently have a stanley errigal woodburning range in the kitchen which I have plumbed up to provide domestic hot water.

I bought the range second hand from a house whre it was powering 9 radiators and i would now like it to do the same here. The problem is I have no experience with building central heating systems.

Is it something a novice could manage do you think?

I believe it will need to be a pumped system and I will need a pipe thermostat.

What guage pipe should I use? what radiators? (will the standard B&Q ones do?)

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated as I am pretty clueless at the minute.

Thanks

 

[Sweetypie]

Hi. I have a similar sort of query too. Want to install a solid fuel stove and use it to heat upstairs radiators in the winter. Already have a combi-boiler that runs everything. Would use this through summer months, then use stove for upstairs and boier for downstairs. Is it possible to do this? Would it be economical anyway?

 

[oilman]

Cooking and water heating from a single woodburning appliance is not a good move. Cooking requires high temperature while waterheating requires low temperature.

Get an installation manual from Stanley, as from your question you have a lot to learn. Wood fuel waterheating, while a poor idea to begin with, also has significant safety considerations, and building control requirements.