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pinkmami

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pinkmami

Price wise I'd prefer a less powerful one but I don't want something that won't produce ample heat, but I don't want something too large tht I have to keep putting logs on it. CONFUSING!!! What's confused me more is seeing that the installer had a 12kw stove (charnwood) in a much smaller room that we will have!

AGBAGB

Bit gorgeous though. No wonder your excited about getting a stove in it.

pinkmami

It'll be even more gorgeous when the chap had done the pointing. Thats why I need to do things right cos it'll be the family home till the very end....ain't moving again!

PennyForThem_2

Think also about fuel and how much it will need if bigger than you require....or am I being a dunce head......

pinkmami

no you're right! bigger the stove obviously the more logs I'll need. I'll have to start storing now for the time we move there!

crphillips

Seriously.....I install these every day of my life and i sweep most of our installations every year so i get the customers feedback.

The only time we get bad feedback is when a customer went against our advice and bought a stove that was too big.

8kW is more than enough for your room......5kW would probably heat it fine......12kw is 3 times more heat than your room requires!

The main reason you get stove shops trying to sell you bigger stoves than you need is because they cost more so they make more money.

I'd rather make less on the stove and not have the customer call me complaining about it a week later.

A._Badger

pinkmami wrote: »

Price wise I'd prefer a less powerful one but I don't want something that won't produce ample heat, but I don't want something too large tht I have to keep putting logs on it. CONFUSING!!! What's confused me more is seeing that the installer had a 12kw stove (charnwood) in a much smaller room that we will have!

Take the advice of an installer who has seen your home and can be held to account if he gets his sums wrong - not someone working from a chart who has no idea what your room is really like. As I've said before, inglenooks can gobble-up heat (I have an even larger one than yours) so take reliable advice before you buy.

Sadly, of course, it's true. The more heat a stove gives out, the more wood it consumes - and a 14kw stove running flat-out can be a beast to feed.

As for Hunter, I've heard this sort of comment before. It's amazing they stay in business, really. All I can say is, it hasn't been my experience of the one I have, nor that of my sweep, who reckons he has installed quite a few and sweeps many of them.

hethmar

As an installer of 25 years, my OH always advises customers to have a smaller stove burning hard rather than a big one just ticking over on slumber mode. He reckons the clearview range particularly the 5 kw 400 Pioneer is brilliant and controllable - not in the price range you have stated, but if you are thinking of using it for years may work out better long term. If not, the Stovax Stockton or a Dovre are decent stoves. The small ones may look a bit lost in that large space, but you can put in decorative bits?

A._Badger wrote: »

. As I've said before, inglenooks can gobble-up heat

The size of the fireplace opening shouldnt have any thing to do with "gobbling up heat"? if the stove is correctly installed and the flue liner insulated. Do you mean an "open fire"?

crphillips - OH's particualr bete noir is the Aarow stove which runs away like a mad thing. He was called out to a job where the guy opened the door in just his underpants pmsl as he couldnt control the heat output at all. The other problem stove has been the Villager.

AGBAGB

Some thing to consider on the sizing... If it only going to used for a few hours in the evening, high output might be best, as the inglenook will heat up quicker so you'll get heat out of it quicker.
If it's to be run all day then a lower output might be better balanced to room after a slower initial warming up period.

Proper, lifetime job - Lime mortar for the pointing?