Can a coal fire do central heating

reallylost

Hi there
We have a coal fire in the living room and that heats up the hot water tank in the back bedroom.
I was wondering if we can hook up radiators to this somehowas ther is no other form of heating in the house.
We were given 5 radiators on freecycle:j
But can we run pipes from the hot water tank to them and how do we do it?
Any advise please.
thanks

ukwoody

I'm not the best person to answer this as I'm a chippie, but thew short answer is yes. You can run at least two reads of this kind of system, (possibly more?) one of which is usually in the bathroom or kitchen. I have seen this done with both Rayburns and an backboiler like yours, but someone cleverer then me will have to give more details.

woody

randomsam08

ukwoody wrote: »

I'm not the best person to answer this as I'm a chippie, but thew short answer is yes. You can run at least two reads of this kind of system, (possibly more?) one of which is usually in the bathroom or kitchen. I have seen this done with both Rayburns and an backboiler like yours, but someone cleverer then me will have to give more details.

woody

lol so if i know then i'm cleverer?




is it currently a gravity system or is there a pump circulating the water?

reallylost

I dont know.
How do you tell the difference?

reallylost

DH has just come in and he says it is gravity fed
does that help?

ukwoody

randomsam08 wrote: »

lol so if i know then i'm cleverer?



?

Only if you give the right answer:p and then I'll think about it:rolleyes:

woody

Canucklehead

Hi

In theory yes.
If you use one or two rads near the cylinder ,say for the bathroom and a bedroom , it would probably work reasonably well. For all five rads I think you'll find the system will be very slow to heat up, the fire can only provide so much heat into the water.It will therefore eat more coal.
How am I doing?:)?

Corgi Guy.

sutwam

Hi

We have a coal fire I think its a Rayburn it heats up the hot water tank upstairs, the bathroom radiator is always on.

In total we have 8 rads working off it, 3 medium and 1 small radiator upstairs and 3 big radiators and 1 small one downstairs.

My sister has an open fire in her living room and I think that is also used to heat the radiators but i dont know with what system, sorry.

randomsam08

sampainter wrote: »

I dont know.
How do you tell the difference?

one has a pump the other doesnt.....

best advice would be give a local plumber a ring for a quote (make sure they do free quotes) and listen carefully as to how he would do it based on whats there already.