??? wood burning stoves ???

stacey777

hi there i was looking to find out about installing a wood burning stove. I have rang a company down stoves and flues and they are quoting quite high about £1800 for top of the rang stove + 800 to 900 for fitting. This also has a boiler attached and will heat my whole my house and water as well.

Have heard good reports on how much heat you get and how cheap they are to run. any advice info or tips would be much appreciated

LCK73

Do you want it to run your hot water too? Or just heat a room?

just remember that if you want it to be a boiler for you then they need a fair bit of tending to keep them stocked up with wood.

My plumber friend says they are great but the downside is the daily maintenance of them i.e. keeping them topped up, cleaned out etc. Okay if you just want to heat a room but if you want your hot water supply from them you need to be organised unless you like cold baths!

This last bit was enough to put me off but everyone's daily routine is different.

L

fin54

I have just got one put into my house, the heat is fantastic it does not heat the water but its so easy to clean out in the morning and only takes a couple of minutes to light it.

toby_puppy

fin54 wrote: »

I have just got one put into my house, the heat is fantastic it does not heat the water but its so easy to clean out in the morning and only takes a couple of minutes to light it.

Agree there, my boss had one fitted in his house and apparently the heat it gives off is brilliant.

HCW

At the risk of getting pulled up for spamming (which I'm not) I bought a woodburner from www.stovesareus.co.uk last year, an 8 kw stove that burns coal as well as wood. It cost me £440, reduced from £650. The heat from it is incredible.

Good luck in whatever choice you make, I'm sure you wont be disappointed in them once installed.

suki1964

We have a wood burning stove- burns anything - unfortunately no back boiler:(

Cleaning out is a doddle and its a lot cleaner then the open fire. Do have the back boiler fitted else the heat given off will be wasted

Colin_Kee

Stacey777.. The stove price seems a bit high but then if they are quoting you for some big brand top of the range stove... including back boiler etc.. I would imagine yes it could be that expensive... maybe shop around a bit more and look at cheaper brands. It may also be chepaer if you went for a stove without the back boiler (though personally I'd go for the back boiler if you have the space as you then have the benifit of heating the water too.)

As far as fitting. again there are a lot of variables from what I can see. If using it to heat water too, you have to consider all the plumbing and different types of heating systems can deternine the amount of work involved. Note also that if they run a flue the whole length of your chimney then that will be more expensive too.. this isn;t always required I believe depending on your chimney, they can cap the base of the chimney off with a closure plate and then you only need a short rigid flue a few feet long which would be cheaper. There are a lot of variables and I wouldn't take a price given to you by a guy in a shop without them first possibly having a look at your house and where you want the thing installed to see what work is required.. They may be quoting for work which you really don't need

BOBS

I know this will sound stupid ... so apologies in advance.
How can you fit a woodburning stove into the standard gap left in a fireplace for lighting fire??????. We have never lit a fire but this sounds good if it was feasible as our oil heats all our house brilliantly apart from our sitting room which is like an ice house and we rely on an electric fire which a reckon is quite sore on the electric bill!! .

Colin_Kee

BOBS.. there are units out there which can fit into a "Standard" (If there is such a thing) gap left in a fire place. May need some building work but minimal depending on gap.. only problem is most of these smaller units don't have the back boiler to heat the water.. they are however a lot more efficient than an open fire and you don't get the problem with the smoke leaving your walls all dirty. have a look on the Stovax web site (Disclaimer...Other manufacturers are available..) they have 2 models the Stockton 7 & Stockton * Inset Convector which slide into the fire place... bigger stoves need a bigger opening you can download the tech details & manuals from their web site... The Stockton 7 needs an opening of 410mm wide x 545mm high x 355mm Deep MINIMUM... you also have to consider your fire surround.. it's all in the tech/user manual available on line

stacey777

LCK73 wrote: »

Do you want it to run your hot water too? Or just heat a room?

just remember that if you want it to be a boiler for you then they need a fair bit of tending to keep them stocked up with wood.

My plumber friend says they are great but the downside is the daily maintenance of them i.e. keeping them topped up, cleaned out etc. Okay if you just want to heat a room but if you want your hot water supply from them you need to be organised unless you like cold baths!

This last bit was enough to put me off but everyone's daily routine is
different.

L

hi i was looking it to heat the water but i do also intend to keep my oil for first thing in the morning. yeah that is somehing to think about the cleaning etc i used to have an open coal fire and it was lovley. I will be at home most of the day with kids so i reckon i have the time to light it and keep it up to scratch but i was told there no were near as much work as a fire. Do you reckon id burn more wood on one used to heat the water and the house.

thanks for replying to.

stacey777

jostenning wrote: »

Agree there, my boss had one fitted in his house and apparently the heat it gives off is brilliant.

hi thanks to you both for replying yeah id heard great reports to and that there not that much work. However as im using mine to heat the whole house it may be work which i had nt thought off