combining oil central heating / water with a wood burning stove

bobinski1971

hi there - in the process of completly renovating a house and we have to install central heating. there is no local gas supply and so we'll be installing a boiler to use with oil ..... however, we are also planning to install 2 wood / multi-fuel burners in the house (we have a large garden with a lifetime's supply of wood!!) and wondered if there was a way we could harness the energy from this in the winter to heat water / radiators to supplement to energy from the oil (and obviously therefore reduce the running costs ) .... does anyone have any advice as to how we go about this (our central heating engineer is sceptical that we can do this!)

Cheers

martindow

bobinski1971 wrote: »

hi there - in the process of completly renovating a house and we have to install central heating. there is no local gas supply and so we'll be installing a boiler to use with oil ..... however, we are also planning to install 2 wood / multi-fuel burners in the house (we have a large garden with a lifetime's supply of wood!!) and wondered if there was a way we could harness the energy from this in the winter to heat water / radiators to supplement to energy from the oil (and obviously therefore reduce the running costs ) .... does anyone have any advice as to how we go about this (our central heating engineer is sceptical that we can do this!)

Cheers

We had an Aga working in tandem with a central heating boiler in our last house. The Aga heated water (but not radiators) with its own coil in the hot water tank and large diameter pipes connecting so that the water circulated on its own. Your woodburners could be connected in this way and two of them could possibly share a coil.

david29dpo

Of course you can do it. As said above, link the two.

evilgoose

I've been looking into something simular, there are a few approaches you could do, but if you want to fully integrate the systems then you need
Have a look a twin coil hotwater tanks.

You have to prevent the hot water from the 'on' boiler circulating into the 'off' boilers or your system will be very inefficient.

Also have a look at the links on here and the link-up system:-

http://www.solidfuel.co.uk/frame/main.html

islandannie

This is what we have,with an oil boiler and a solid fuel aga.Works a treat.

http://www.dunsleyheat.co.uk/linkupsys.htm