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  • Canucklehead
    Canucklehead Posts: 6,254 Forumite
    edited 21 February 2010 at 9:25PM
    Hi

    Do you have 4000 square feet of house? (That's 371 sq m.) and 14 rads.

    Working to CHeSS a house over 150 sq m would be split into two zones.
    Use a programmable room stat for each zone.
    Biomass would be a good option in a rural area check out suppliers of pellets/fuel in your area, and boilers. Vokera are pushing their biomass boilers but I would be looking at German, Austrian or thereabouts for one.They are quite sophisticated now.

    GSR.
    Ask to see CIPHE (Chartered Institute of Plumbing & Heating Engineering)
  • uberalles
    uberalles Posts: 4,198 Forumite
    Hi

    Do you have 4000 square feet of house? (That's 371 sq m.) and 14 rads.

    Working to CHeSS a house over 150 sq m would be split into two zones.
    Use a programmable room stat for each zone.
    Biomass would be a good option in a rural area check out suppliers of pellets/fuel in your area, and boilers. Vokera are pushing their biomass boilers but I would be looking at German, Austrian or thereabouts for one.They are quite sophisticated now.

    GSR.

    Good morning all

    I actually toiled over this last night so got up this morning and properly measured rather than a bad calculation on my part. I apologise to all, it is actually more like 3200 sq feet.

    Thank you Canucklehead for the suggestion about alternatives of fuel to use. Biomass looks like a great idea especially as wood is plentiful in my area, although I understand from reading that wood pellets would be the preferred fuel. I am going to enquire about suppliers and costs.

    keystone wrote: »
    And the quoted price seems rather high BTW. You really should have a roomstat as well.

    Cheers

    Thank you keystone, I did wonder. I have had only the one quote so far.
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