cottage heating

covcouple

We are buying a small cottage in Wales and we arent sure whats the best way of heating. We are considering woodburner in main living area and electric storage heaters elsewhere, or should we consider a wet system and install radiators linked to the immersion heater. The disadvantage we see with burner and wet system is that we'd have to keep burner going all night to make sure we had heating in the morning and could only have heatin g when the woodburner is on. Cottage has very thick walls and floorboards are directly above living area, so hopefully bedrooms will benefit form the fire below.

Any advice is welcome

ps oil is out and gas is a non starter as we are pretty much in nowhere land!

Cheers

Owain_Moneysaver

Solid fuel closed stoves like a Parkray G range will amply heat radiators and hot water for a small cottage; it needs de-ashing daily and stoking twice daily usually (I lived with one for about 10 years). Stays on low overnight, so always hot water in the morning, and the radiators can be on a timer.

Immersion heater for summer hot water.

The Parkray G is inset to the chimney so takes up less floor space than an outside / freestanding stove.

albyota

covcouple wrote: »

We are buying a small cottage in Wales and we arent sure whats the best way of heating. We are considering woodburner in main living area and electric storage heaters elsewhere, or should we consider a wet system and install radiators linked to the immersion heater. The disadvantage we see with burner and wet system is that we'd have to keep burner going all night to make sure we had heating in the morning and could only have heatin g when the woodburner is on. Cottage has very thick walls and floorboards are directly above living area, so hopefully bedrooms will benefit form the fire below.

Any advice is welcome

ps oil is out and gas is a non starter as we are pretty much in nowhere land!

Cheers

Mitsubishi Ecodan Air source heat pump coupled to vented thermal store with wood stove boiler and wet radiator heating.

Cardew

Is the cottage to be occupied full time or a 'holiday cottage'?

Russ123_2

You have me curious

The Parkray G Range is basically a boiler in the guise of a insert fireplace, able to run radiators and also act as a space heater - can you also use these to assist Gas central heating? or would you have to have one or the other? What about if you have an on-demand combi boiler? can you switch between the two? Also is Chimney lining necessary for these?

covcouple

Cardew wrote: »

Is the cottage to be occupied full time or a 'holiday cottage'?

Thank you for the advice so far, Its going to be our permanent home.

We haven't got a huge budget and we are trying to do the cottage up as economicly and eco friendly as we can (I have noticed the two do not go hand in hand)

We had considered radiators off the burner but as we have stone floors we werent sure how the piping would be concealed?