Classical Gas
(Apologies to Mason Williams) We switched our central heating to a gas boiler in November, which is working out really well, but the stove presented a bit of a challenge. This has been our main source of heat and hot water for over 5 years with the oil boiler acting as a back-up coming on for an hour in the morning and again in the early evening until the stove was lit and up to heat. With the gas boiler the central heating has changed to a pressurised system which is incompatible with the stove's back boiler. The concern was in running the stove 'dry' as we like having a fire in the winter. Would the existing copper pipe overheat or worse? The solution was to create a separate mini gravity-fed convection heating system with one radiator. Admittedly this is the highest-output radiator I could get from ScrewFix at 2.2kW which would fit the available wall space on the landing. The plumber removed the special £600 dual-coil copper tank (groan) and moved the expan...