house too hot- solid fuel

wrightk

I feel so ungrateful posting this and im sorry but here goes.

We've recently had our solid fuel heating system completely reworked as it was dangerous,didnt meet regs and was a disaster waiting to happen. This has been going on for years. Its all sorted now thankfully and we have a 200 ltr solid fuel HWC connected up to a charnwood 13kw stove (10 to water 3 to room). 7 rads on the system.

It takes a while to get going heating wise but once it does the heat is unbearable! (sound so ungrateful i know). The bedrooms are approaching 30c regularly! I dont want to slumber burn it and i know stoves are most efficient when ran at full capacity. I know i also dont overheat it as when i fire it up it gets to about 350f max then settles down to about 250f after the initial burn and when ticking over (burning anthracite). I've tried other fuels, seasoned hardwood which i love but the heating system doesn't

My question is, is there anything i can do. Can i adjust the rads flow to just allow a trickle of heat, will this add complications to the HWC side. I dont want the system overflowing/overheating. There is obviously an overflow tank in the loft and a newly installed heat leak rad above the stove upstairs

Any other ideas?

Many thanks

Kiran

Have you got trv's fitted to all but 1 rad? If so adjust them down to a habitable temperature.

Swipe

If you are burning anthracite. just put less fuel on. Slumbering is only a problem when burning wood.

wrightk

Swipe wrote: »

If you are burning anthracite. just put less fuel on. Slumbering is only a problem when burning wood.

thankyou. The only trouble is, it takes a fair bit of caning to get the pump to kick in for the central heating. I've already reduced the flow stat to 60 to try and move things around quicker. If i were to simply use less the heating just wouldn't come on and i'd only have gravity flow to a few of the upstairs rads