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A back boiler is a device which is fitted to a residential heating stove or open fireplace to enable it to provide both room heat and domestic hot water or central heating. The device is a water filled heat exchanger enclosed at the rear of the burning chamber with a hot water output at the top of the chamber and a cold water feed at the bottom.

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    Back Boiler Not Heating Water But Heating Rads

    Hi Guys, I've got a woodburning stove with a back boiler that I cant quite figure out. Last year it was heating the water but not the radiators, and this year its heating the radiators and not the water. Does anybody have any ideas? Its a fairly old installation, I'm guessing from the 80s ish...
  2. P

    Can I install a stove back boiler with a combi gas boiler?

    Hi all, I have a Logic Combi 30 gas boiler installed in my house. The wife and I would like to install a multi fuel stove with a back burner to give us another option for central heating and hot water (especially with the current price of gas). With the pressurised system, is it possible to do...
  3. Damo33

    Solid fuel back boiler not heating the rads - HELP!

    Hi all, I'm really stuck with an issue I have with our soliud fuel back boiler system and my novice understanding is pretty much out of ideas so I'd really appreciate some advice. We've recently moved into a new place that has the hot water and central heating powered by a stove in the lounge...
  4. B

    Oil to gas conversion - Removing back boiler?

    Hi all, I am looking some advice regarding our renovations. We have just bought an old house circa late 1930's. We are looking to switch from oil to gas for various reasons one being the showers are electric. My question specifically regards a back boiler in one of the fireplaces. We have had...
  5. F

    Open fire Back Boiler

    We got an open fireplace with a back Boiler it also feeds the radiators with a pump, the water goes via the back boiler through a coil under a hot water cylinder heating the hot water. My question is, if the hot water would be connected to a pump EG pumping the water passed the back boiler...
  6. D

    ASHP with back boiler on wood stove, thoughts?

    Interested on thoughts on this (I've also posted on another forum but thought this might be a better place to ask); Long time lurker, have gleamed some great knowledge from this site, finally signed up as I cant find an exact answer to the below. I'm not a heating engineer, but an electrical...
  7. C

    Good morning all, has anyone come across this type of back boiler

    trying to identify this back boiler for safe removal?
    • colin tt
    • Thread
    • across america anyone back boiler boiler morning usa
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: USA
  8. S

    old solid fuel Back Boiler leak?

    Hi everyone, im not sure if this is the right forum but here goes, So i have noticed after getting my chimneys cleaned out that the soot from my kitchen chimney is damp and it looks like my old solid fuel back boiler has a leak of some kind. the boiler was put in when the house was built in...
    • Seosamh
    • Thread
    • america back boiler boiler leak old solid solid fuel usa
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: USA
  9. P

    Removing a back boiler

    When removing an old gas fire/back boiler is it ok to loop the feed and return pipes together, we are having a new boiler in the loft but using existing pipes for the radiators. Thanks
  10. G

    URGENT Removal of baxi back boiler now i have installed a combi and no heat upstairs

    i have relocated the pipes from the old boiler and remove the hot water and heating expansion pipes i have used the hot tank pipes to fix a small rad in the old airing room removed the pump and connected the flow and return from the boiler 5 out of eight rads d/stairs work the rest nothing this...
  11. J

    Powerflush back boiler

    Hi, I've a job coming up, rads have cold spots and need fixing. I'm gonna rent a powerflusher but I haven't done it since the training centre and wouldn't even call that experience. The system is an oil boiler and range with a back boiler, I'm concerned about the back boiler, is it possible to...
    • Jamesplumber92
    • Thread
    • america back boiler boiler powerflush usa
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: USA
  12. E

    I have been using a Stanley stove with a back boiler for the past ten years.

    I have been using a Stanley stove with a back boiler for the past ten years. We are now converting to gas and have disconnected the stove from the mains. We would like to keep the stove but I am concerned about how safe/unsafe that might be. I lit a fire and as I had been told, we had a sauna...
  13. B

    When my oil heating is on should it heat the water in my back boiler of open fire as well?

    When my oil heating is on should it be heating the water in my back boiler of open fire as well?
  14. Alan Wright

    Fitting a Back Boiler To A Wood Burner

    I want to fit a back boiler into my Ecoburn Plus 11 KW WoodBurner and feed heated water to my radiators. I need advise and perhaps someone to fit the back boiler.
    • Alan Wright
    • Thread
    • america back boiler boiler burner fitting usa
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: USA
  15. B

    H2 Panel to connect wet back wood stove and oil fired rayburn

    I am considering using an H2 panel to connect a woodburner stove with a back boiler to an oil fired rayburn. I have seen that serveral years ago there was some talk of the H2 panel but have been advised that using such a system is expensive to fit and not that efficient. Has anybody got any...
    • boucher555
    • Thread
    • america back boiler connect fired oil panel rayburn stove usa wet woodburner
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: USA
  16. D

    Old Baxi Bermuda Back Boiler with Elson? Square tank in the Loft

    I have one of these in my loft but no manual so I can understand how it operates (eg is the water temp thermostatically controlled?) etc. Can anyone point me to a link where I can download a manual? Thanks
    • Dref
    • Thread
    • back boiler baxi bermuda boiler elson loft old square tank
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Central Heating Forum
  17. T

    Baxi Burnall with back boiler connection to Unvented /Mains pressure water tank ??

    I have a Baxi Burnall open fire with wrap round back boiler connected via a Dunsley Baker Neutaliser to the vented hot water tank. I wish to update my older vented system to an unvented twin coil indirect water tank with two immersion slots. I want to use one immersion slot for my recently...
    • timeley
    • Thread
    • back boiler baxi boiler connection pressure tank unvented water water tank
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: USA
  18. B

    Making use of a back boiler

    Hi all, I’ve recently moved into a house and want to start using a fireplace that hasn’t been used in around 10 years. The fireplace has a back boiler which has since been disconnected when the central heating system was revamped a few years ago. We currently have solar panels and an oil...
  19. L

    Multifuel stove with back boiler problems

    Hi all, Looking for some advice please. I have just recently moved into a cottage with an old back boiler system and an Esse muti fuel stove, and I seem to be getting nothing but problems with it. The main thing is getting the radiators to come on and stay on. Most of the time I can have a...
    • Lovecraft
    • Thread
    • america back boiler boiler problems stove usa
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: USA
  20. M

    Back boiler to combi

    Hi, new to the site so please bare with me. I have a property which is rented out, up until recently to a single guy. In the last month or so his partner and children have moved in making it a home for 4. The current heating system is powered by a baxi boiler with water tank in the loft...
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