Stove/woodburer advice required

DATMAN_2

Hi

Having installed solar pv to reduce elecy costs, now looking at reducing the gas bill!

Looking at buying a modern stove/wood burner to heat the downstairs in a B rated energy efficient home that will also heat the radiators (connected to gas boiler in the garage). The stove will need to be taken through a insulated brick wall or through a chimney.

What are the best options and how do you bypass the gas boiler and connect the stove to the radiators?

We also have a Megaflow CL gas boiler upstairs. Can the stove be connected to that instead of the radiators to give us hot water instead? Does anyone know if the Megaflow tank is compatible?

thanks

wrightk

if you are looking to reduce your gas bills dont get a stove. in my experience they work out a lot more expensive to heat your home than gas. Plus you have the additional costs of stove/installation.

wrightk

after a quick browse of megaflo boilers one of the manuals say they are not compatible with solid fuel stoves.

muckybutt

Megaflow...unvented system in that case = not compatible with MOST stoves.

The majority of stoves availably on the British market are of the vented system type and cannot be used on an unvented system...unless you install a heat exchanger like a Dunsley Nutraliser http://www.dunsleyheat.co.uk/neutralizer.html or one of the H2 range of different panels http://www.h2panel.co.uk/

Having said that there are some stoves that are suitable for use on unvented systems but they are few and far between and are generally available on the European market, you then have problems with parts etc and back up if things go titsup.

Gas is always the cheaper option.