Hi everyone,
I was hoping to hear some opinions and help clarify my currently very muddled head about how best to heat my narrowboat radiators.
A bit of background...
My boat is 60ft long with a solid fuel stove in the lounge at one end of the boat. This is lovely and heats this room well, however, the heat doesn't transfer enough down to heat the rest of the boat.
The boat also has an old Alde comfort 2928 boiler that heats up the water and at some stage must have had heated radiators too. They are no longer on the boat but the pipework remains.
As the boat is currently in a state of repair, I have been looking into options as to how best heat the radiators. Since we're going to be continuous cruisers, we were aiming to fit a calorifier that would heat most of our hot water from the engine, then use the Alde as a back up for water heating.
So the question is, do we continue to use the Alde boiler and reconnect up all the pipe work for the radiators, or look into other means of doing this..?
Obviously the Alde is already there and although have heard many reports about it using a lot of gas, it is already in place so would be the easiest option in a way to set back up and see how it goes...
Or do we outlay a much larger cost now for a diesel boiler (webasto or otherwise) which I am aware also can be troublesome for a variety of reasons.
Everywhere I read there are swathes of different opinions making it really hard to decipher how best to go.
Although not fitted we do have a back boiler for the stove too which is another option.
I guess I'm just looking for other opinions and ideas on how best to move forward.
Many thanks for reading 🙂