Our Rayburn Number One, gave up the ghost recently - it started to
leak. It's been plumbed in to provide hot water and central-heating,
but is woefully inadequate for this task anyway, so we want to replace
it.

I calculated the heat requirements for the house, based on an outside
temperature of -1C as around 17kW. Given that we're in East Anglia,
it's fairly temperate down here and we're semi-detached so being bolted
to next door helps.

We did have conversations with a chap who talked of using a 12-14KW
boiler, and suggested using a thermal store to cover over the
difference between the capacity of the thing and our heating
requirements. I've also spoken with other folk who indicate these are
not suitable for a solid-fuel/multi-fuel arrangement.

I've looked recently at a Stratford Aarrow which is one of the few
boilers which seems to supply anything over 14-16KW. Given that we
might extend at some point, we're trying to keep this in mind.

Has anyone experience of using thermal stores with solid-fuel/multifuel
setups who can recommend (or the opposite) whether they're a good idea.
If they've worked fine, what models of thermalstore/heatstore/whatever
have you used?

Anyone got experience of the Aarrow ? We've looked at the TF70 and the
TF90

cheers
Danny

I was reading upon this website http://www.heatweb.com after it was
mentioned on this thread
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....b5de93b8565a54
and found their advice/descriptions really useful - I hadn't really
appreciated how thermal stores/heat banks work.

Do report back on progress - I'm converting an old chapel also in East
Anglia and weighing up my options that may include an Aga/Rayburn, so
would be interested in your impressions.

On Tue, 30 May 2006 02:23:57 -0700, wrote:

I was reading upon this website http://www.heatweb.com after it was
mentioned on this thread
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....b5de93b8565a54
and found their advice/descriptions really useful - I hadn't really
appreciated how thermal stores/heat banks work.

Do report back on progress - I'm converting an old chapel also in East
Anglia and weighing up my options that may include an Aga/Rayburn, so
would be interested in your impressions.

You could also talk to McDonalds (no, not Ronald :-)
I spoke to them today and was pleasd at how helpful and clueful they were.

http://www.mcdonald-engineers.com

You could also talk to McDonalds (no, not Ronald :-)
I spoke to them today and was pleasd at how helpful and clueful they were.

http://www.mcdonald-engineers.com

Thanks for that - I'll give them a call.

Anyone on here got experience of installing solid-fuel/mutlifuel
boilers know how easy it is to get Building Regs approval without being
HETAS registered? i.e. Can I do it myself?

cheers
Danny

AJH wrote:

On 1 Jun 2006 16:08:13 -0700, wrote:

Anyone on here got experience of installing solid-fuel/mutlifuel
boilers know how easy it is to get Building Regs approval without being
HETAS registered?

I sub contract for a HETAs registered firm but I have called building
control about having the BCO certify a system and they said the charge
would be between GBP200 and 400. LA next door told me a certificate
was not required ;-).

I am sure you can still DIY but you do need the certification for the
boiler and the flue.

AJH

Thanks for that - that's much more than I expected. What's LA? Local
Authority? They said a cert wasn't required .. sorry .. confused here
... how d'you mean? The boiler and flue needs certifying, but the
plumbing doesn't?

Have you ever had experience of solid-fuel/multifuel setups with
thermal/heat stores?

Many thanks for the reply!

Danny