I'm looking for a heating engineer that can spec and install a heating system for my house.

So far I have had around 6 in, 2 spent a whole day here measuring etc, only one sent a quote, but when I tried to take him up on it he disappeared!!!!

Two declined to spec the whole job, one never turned up and one has tried to be as helpful as possible, but says it is really out of his remit.

The house is about 600 years old in places, some timber framing with a brick facade, some solid brick. There are 4 rooms downstairs and 3 upstairs plus bathroom. Though they are a fair size. I can give fuller details as and when if neccessary.

We have an oil fired wick rayburn designed for up to 8 rads, trying to power 14, some of which are 8' long!!!!!

They get tepid.

We have two wood burning stoves and one open fire upstairs in a bedroom.

I'd like to try and get away from oil, though I love the rayburn for cooking.

The lounge wood bourner needs replacing, it is cracking and passed it's best. i think it was installed in 1978, so has done well.

I thought I'd replace this with a wood burner with back boiler. This could heat the water and supply our central heating. In order to have heating before we get up and light the fire, one engineer suggested we have a heat store/accumulator tank, which would supply us with morning heating to get up with ........ can't wait!!!

For the summer I thought we'd have some solar panels.

The rayburn can continue to be plumbed in to the hot water system, but I'd probably not light both wicks, just the cooking one.

We have no gas.

We have plenty of free wood.

We are 450m from the road, so the mains water supply is long and our pressure is quite low at the house, (a plumber friend is going to test it at the point it comes into the house for us, so I'll have a pressure and flow rate soon.) so we have two salamander 3.3bar pumps doing whole house pumping of both hot and cold water.

I started my search in March, thinking this year we'd be warm in the house. We work from home, so my wife gets the room with the other wood burner and I get a wooly jumper and thick coat. But the cold plays havoc with trying to work accurately on a pc!!!!


Is there anyone here who can do this, or has had something similar done that can recommend a company?

Graham

Looks like tanked gas then.

skier-hughes,

Hi,

it looks like a fine challenge If you still looking for some "switched-on" installer, pls contact me (email in the profile). Plenty options for combining different heat sources.

Regards,

Mike