New Fangled Thermal Store Thing!

Today the Thermal Store has arrived, these are relatively new and hopefully will provide the hot water and heating soultion all in one.  It is about 6 feet tall and will hold 250 litres of water. This will weigh about 300Kg when full which is why we needed the double beams.

As you can see the stairs have been removed now so Ben the plumber had to get it up the ladder to fit it into place.  It has coils where the hot water from the wood burner will heat the store. This then transfers heat to the hot water and heating coils. There is another coil that can be connected to a solar thermal unit (we hope to fit next year).  The back up is an electric immersion heater which we hope to connect to solar PV to power next year.

Here it is sat in the cupboard next to where the shower enclosure will be.