Central Heating- Rayburn (oil fired) & Woodburner

Deanne_S

could anyone give advice on how best to run a central heating system by oil fired Rayburn & Woodburner. We’ve had everything serviced and all seems to be working safely however no one (plumper/s, Rayburn speacialists, chimney sweep) seem to be able to give us a straight answer to how we can use these systems combined and best do so. Only advice so far has been to take a trial & error approach; apparently whilst its all fully functioning, its a bit of a diy setup/ system. We’re obviously not too confident taking this approach. We have zero experience using either systems and very little knowledge (learning daily though).
The Rayburn heats its self (to cook with if required), provides heating around the home via radiators and heats hot water cylinder.
The wood burner heats the hot water (what seems as a priority) and gently warms the radiators around the house, when run at optimum temperature (we have a temperature gage on it). It does however kick out a lot of heat from one particular radiator (located upstairs, above Rayburn).
Our first concern is that there is a water pipe in our airing cupboard (where mains pipes & hot water cylinder is), should this (Tap/ turn key) be on at all if so constantly?
Second query/ concern is are we able to run the Woodburner and Rayburn at the same time? Are both working and pumping central heating & hot water? Is that safe to do so? At the moment we are using one or the other but feel this does not make running the oil fired Rayburn efficient, turning it on and off and both taking a while to heat up to a decent temperature. I’ve read (from another forum) that the Rayburn runs best when left on constantly at the lowest heat temperature setting & only switching on radiator, hot water pump & upping the temperature when required.

Any help, advice or top tips would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Deanne_S

Our first concern is that there is a water pipe in our airing cupboard (where mains pipes & hot water cylinder is), should this (Tap/ turn key) be on at all if so constantly?- meaning there is a pipe labelled central heating, should this be on?

Gloomendoom

Google "Dunsley Baker Neutraliser".

gamston

how are these two heaters connected to the heating/hot water.
do you have something like Dunsley Baker Neutraliser or a thermos store ? or are they both just on the same pipework ?
most folks say you should not be on the same pipework, you need a neuralilier or thermos store
I have oil boiler & woodburner connected on same pipework, so if either the woodburner or oil boiler is running the other acts as a big radiator.
what I do (in cool/cold weather) is in afternoon I light the woodburner and switch on hot water & central heating (turn oil boiler off) I have around 17 rads and get woodburner output max 40c return 35c
then in early evening I turn on the oil boiler
my system has stop cocks fitted in loft/airing cupboard, I been here 30 yrs and never turned them, yes i could isolate the woodburner from the system, but I cannot light the woodburner with it isolated
I get my wood for free so would run that all days on cold days,
if your rayburne is not used as your cooker, why not just use it as an oil boiler (ie timed heating of hot water and central heating)
when your woodburner is running is the central heating & hot water & pump running ?