Wanted Old Coal Fired Back Boiler

Hi 2 All, I have a freestanding fire that has a boiler in thats about as big as a box of Dairy Milk chocolates, so it dont get much hot water.
Im thinking of putting in a back boiler from an old coal fire. Sizes around 12"Wide,9" High about 4" depth should fit.
Obviously with fittings and not leaking.
Is any1 in Nottingham area ripping one out?
Cheers if U R, and Cheers 2 U all anyway.

You might find a combi a little more efficient m8 lol

Good luck on finding one though, can't be many about. Maybe a fabricators could make you one??

Curly

Boiler

Hi, thanks for reply, it seems the only option is to have one made, time will tell.
cheers
Urbanrebel

Try your local scrap merchants m80 i ripped one out the other week and took it the scappy so may be worth a try.

would not bother with back boiler as these are not allowed any more no one will service it or you will find it very hard to get someone to do it if you don't want a combi try and get a normal free standing boiler troulbe with back boilers is if gas fire is integrated into it you have to have a fire to match the boiler been down this road end up ripping the back boiler out 2 years ago hope this helps

You cant even put in a combi nowadays if your gunna have a gas fired boiler it has to be a condensing boiler as part of the energy efficiency bye-laws. But if your replacing like for like ie coal boiler for coal boiler then your ok but like already said they arent very efficient. You would save enough money on heating in 12 months to pay for your boiler if you had a condenser installed.

bobby boy said:

would not bother with back boiler as these are not allowed any more no one will service it or you will find it very hard to get someone to do it if you don't want a combi try and get a normal free standing boiler troulbe with back boilers is if gas fire is integrated into it you have to have a fire to match the boiler been down this road end up ripping the back boiler out 2 years ago hope this helps

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Dont think he means a gas fired back boiler m80 like a baxi or a gloworm he on about the old gravity fed box thats heated by coal. At least thats what i take from his post. Just a steel box with return and flow that feeds through the hot water cylinder fucking slowly. LOL
Good luck in your hunt urbanrebel ive had some fun n games with these fuckers in the past best way ive got more hot through em is to fit a pump in the return pipework and set it to low, trouble with that is the pipeworks usually lead.

Hi Mate

i guess most of the replies don't make much sense as i assume you have no gas otherwise you would not be using a coal fired water heater !!. if you have gas, definitely put in a combi (condensing if new, but second hand combi's are around and good value).

If, as i presume you do not have gas, then you cannot get one fabricated, boilers are cast and i would not trust a fabricated version. this being the case, i may be able to get a brand new parkray 99 which gives about 50 000 btu's but do not quote me. anyway the good news is that i am in nottingham area so its do-able.