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They could get hot water, but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up.

Players also installed an oil fired scotch dry back boiler.

Window to rear garden, fitted gas fire with back boiler, double radiator.

Many also have back boilers for domestic heating.

With a back boiler, this could mean putting the hot water cylinder in a bedroom airing cupboard.

Central heating but it's a back boiler.

Double glazed bay window, picture rails, fitted gas fire, back boiler, radiator, power points, television point.

Window, dimmer switch, gas fire with back boiler, double radiator, power points, television point, electric meter.

Tina is also studying for an Open University degree in English but this is very much on the back boiler.

The house retained a coal-fire, but it contained a back boiler to create both central heating as well as a constant supply of hot water.

A back-fitting gas circulator would also be a good choice for replacing an elderly solid fuel back boiler behind a new gas fire.

Manufacturers of stoves with back boilers quote efficiency figures of up to 80% on oil-fed models.

The back boiler is typically used with a gravity feed circuit to the hot water cylinder, with a vent or overflow to prevent excess pressure build up.

UPVC double glazed bay window to rear, tiled fireplace with solid fuel fire and back boiler, power points, television point, telephone point.

It was just as well because the back boiler in the kitchen split in two about fifteen years ago and I haven't been able to light a fire in the grate since.

It is unlikely these days that you would want a new back boiler to provide all your central heating needs, but you may well want to replace one which provides domestic hot water.

Back boilers are strictly regulated in Ireland and the UK following explosions relating to incorrectly serviced or installed back boilers.

Opposite page: Living flame gas with three sided gas front allowing all-round view of flames; the SP firefront hides a Baxi Bermuda back boiler.

A back boiler is a device which is fitted to a residential heating stove or open fireplace to enable it to provide both room heat and domestic hot water or central heating.

Back boilers require that the hot water or central heating system be able to disperse all of the heat captured from the fire, otherwise boiling or overheating of the water can occur.

A back boiler can improve the efficiency of a stove by acting as a heat-sink and can also act as a method of extracting additional heat from the flue system which would otherwise have been lost.

Some existing 'boilers' used for hot water heating will, however, be back boilers which are situated behind gas or solid fuel fires in the main living room, which may mean significantly long - and inefficient - pipe runs.

Britain is using more water for more purposes - dishwashers where our parents might have used a sponge, power showers where our grandparents might have heated a modest cubic volume on the back boiler of their kitchen range.

A solid-fuel boiler, whether a separate boiler, an Aga-type cooker/ hot water boiler or a back boiler, is the most difficult to control and will heat the water to some extent all the time that the fire is lit.

I am ripping out gas boiler as soon I can afford to replace my wood burner with one with back boiler because I really dislike being misled by an energy company an paying them for energy I could produce myself.

I was with someone once who actually sent the water back.

Had he managed to change the water back to air?

"Now the state is paying us to put the water back."

"We are just putting the water back where it once was."

At a certain times of the year, the water back flows.

There'd been no question, then, about whether the villagers would help hold the water back.

We tell them to take water back to the dormitory.

"Putting the water back in the ground is a waste of time," he said.

This was the first time all season that we couldn't hold the water back.

"We had better go drink some of that water back at the spring," he said.

"You have to keep people dry and put water back into the system.

She brought a glass of water back from the kitchen and took Pearl into her arms.

He shoved me out of his way altogether and turned the water back on.

Bring the water back to a boil and add the spinach.

You kept your head above water back in the subbasement, remember?

"They were beside the second water back there," and he pointed to the south.

They carried me dripping with water back to the ship.

The tennis player carried the water back to the table and sat down.

"I sometimes imagined what it would be like to have the waters back," she said.

When Cody finds the real reason for this it is up to him to bring water back everyone.

The water backed up behind the dam and then broke through all at once.

How in the world was he going to get Tom over that stretch of water back to the second island gain?

Add the 12 cabbage leaves, and bring the water back to a boil.

Add the pasta and bring the water back to a boil (this will take about 5 minutes).

I took some hot water back to my desk.