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  • scraprider
    Free Member

    Is it possible to have both, gas central heating for them cold mornings , and Wood burning stoves and central heating in the evenings,cheers.

    paul4stones
    Full Member

    What do you mean? Of course it is. Just that your CH won’t turn on if controlled by a thermostat that’s in the same room as the woodburner.
    We have Oil CH which comes on morning and evening but a woodburner which gets put on if we’re in the house for a significant part of the day. Radio controlled valves operated by a wireless thermostat which can be moved about the house as you like.

    scraprider
    Free Member

    ah right, we have at the mo a large open fire place, i was thinking about getting a woodburner to heat water and run my radiators at nite, i weasnt sure about running central heating from 2 sources, not at the same time obviously.

    TheBrick
    Free Member

    My parents have had this set up for years. I their old house they had a hot water tank with two heat exchangers. Now they have a thermal store which can take heat from the gas boiler, wood burner or solar thermal, there is also a port for geothermal too but it is unused. It has been working extremely well over all winter I don’t think they have used the gas. Still enough heat in the thermal store to have the rad come one at 06:30 and hot water for a shower as long as you stoke up the fire asap. They do keep the fire going 90% of the time though.

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