Storm and heating

Wearb

Storm advice.
Feel free to add to this thread.

I would advise putting on you heating now if you still have electricity. It will warm up the house which will stay war for hours if electricity fails.

Anyone with boiler stoves should be aware that the pump attached needs power and everything can get too hot without it. If electricity goes, dont refuel it and let it go out.
If you have a non boiler stove you can use that even during a power cut. This also applies to a non backboiler fireplace.

If depending on electricity for your water, fill up some containers and perhaps some in the bath for flushing the toilet.
Don't forget to turn off any taps that that you might have turned on while no power and left on when power returns.

Keep internal doors closed, it will stop air wind rushing around the house when outside door is opened.

Have a quick look around the garden to see if anything needs to be secured. We have all seen the damage a trampoline can do in even moderate winds.

Standard Toaster

I've a boiler stove and this question came up today.

I've a Boiler stove, oil and solar plumbed into a 3 coil Joule tank.

It's plumbed in such a way the water from the stove heats the water in the bottom of the tank, and at some point (60 degrees I think) the stat trips the Grundfos Selectric pump and hot water hits the rads in the "living zone" of the house.

Would it be possible in the event of the electric going to manually open that valve and let the water hit the living zone? I can see where I can manually turn the pump, anyway to just open it? I assume it's required anyway to 'pump' the hot water to the rads. I originally thought with a gravity feed system there were no pumps, but evidently not.

Wearb

Standard Toaster wrote: »

I've a boiler stove and this question came up today.

I've a Boiler stove, oil and solar plumbed into a 3 coil Joule tank.

It's plumbed in such a way the water from the stove heats the water in the bottom of the tank, and at some point (60 degrees I think) the stat trips the Grundfos Selectric pump and hot water hits the rads in the "living zone" of the house.

Would it be possible in the event of the electric going to manually open that valve and let the water hit the living zone? I can see where I can manually turn the pump, anyway to just open it? I assume it's required anyway to 'pump' the hot water to the rads. I originally thought with a gravity feed system there were no pumps, but evidently not.

Your gravity system is just between your stove and cylinder, not to rads. In a two story house you might have some gravity feed to upstairs rads.

Are you sure it’s a pump and not a motorized valve that you mentioned above?

You won’t get gravity feed to rads downstairs without electricity.

La.de.da

Since power outage yesterday, control panel for the gas heating (channel plus h37xl) is dead as a dodo. No power at all going to it.
And the pilot light in the boiler is off.

Is it really a call for a plumber and electrician? Money is really tight, wondering does it cost much to replace the control panel?