Wood burner attached to central heating

[Andrew[MG]]

Does anyone have a system like this? How is it working out for you?

Just doing a little research into it at the moment.

[Andrew[MG]]

Combi boilers have to be one of the most rubbish inventions ever!

[Andrew[MG]]

BIGMIKE1 said:

bold statement, usually find people who have experience of old or cheap combi's have these opinions, you also find most people in the trade who don't like them are the ones that struggle to understand how they work and how to fix them! I've worked on thousands and would always put a decent Combi in my house.

There are plenty of threads on PistonHeads about how the making everything other than combis illegal was a big mistake in the UK.

BIGMIKE1 said:

As for the op don't think you can connect a wood burner to a sealed system so you'd need to run a second heat exchanger that was open vented and more hassle than it would be worth really

That's the info I was looking for really. Combi + wood burner sounded nice on theory but I wasn't sure how the system would work.

[Andrew[MG]]

Thanks for all the great info and experiences guys! It sounds like I'll probably just swap out the gas fire for a normal wood burner in the future. It sounds like a bit of a backwards step but I like a real fire and have always had decent access to free wood.