Good progress was made on the installation of the wood burner this weekend. The pipe work was connected using a mixture of 1" iron pipe & 28mm copper. This was done to avoid the expense of buying any 28mm copper. I was able to borrow a die to cut the correct 1"BSP threads. The pipework had to match up with the existing system but the end result looks fairly neat. All of the joints proved water-tight when it was filled...except the return which was, of course, situated on the back of the boiler at the bottom, meaning that, in addition to draining down, the boiler had to be moved too....twice!
The hot water is gravity circulated & the central heating is pumped, the pump can be seen on the return pipe on the left above the boiler.
The next job is to fit the flue, this needs to pass through the hole in the wall on the left & meet the pipe that is already fitted into the base of the chimney in the front of the cellar... not quite as simple as it sounds because this boiler is taller than the old one...
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