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Was hoping for some advice about stove installation. Do let me know if I should post elsewhere.

I'm wanting to install a wood burning stove in my sitting room - but I am really unsure what size stove to get. I've used the calculators online - but to be honest they haven't helped! As I'm most confused about whether going for a stove bigger than 5kw and having to have a air vent is going to mitigate any heat and just be a total pain. Any thoughts or advice gratefully received!

A little bit about the house: I live in a cottage which was redeveloped about 6 years ago. It does have cavity wall insulation (albeit not in all of the walls - maybe the builders forgot??). The sitting room is open plan and is about 36m2 - but has the front and back door opening into it (there are a few stairs before the back door). The staircase to upstairs is also located within the room. The other rooms in the house (with doors) are warm, but the sitting room is uncomfortably cold for most of the year - although this has improved since adding better draught proofing to the front and back doors.

Stove size: Depending on whether I say the house is insulated or not, the calculator comes back with a suggested stove size of 4.6kw or 7kw. I'm inclined to think that higher would be better due to the coldness from the doors.

Presuming I went for a 7kw stove, I'd need to have an air vent installed. However the stove is not able to be located on an external wall, meaning that an air vent would be fair distance away - and presumably pulling cold air into the room and defeating the point of the stove?????

If I went for a stove that was less that 5kw I am worried that it just wouldn't be warm enough.

Any suggestions of what to do or any experience? Other than get an electric fire!

Barbet wrote: »

Presuming I went for a 7kw stove, I'd need to have an air vent installed. However the stove is not able to be located on an external wall, meaning that an air vent would be fair distance away - and presumably pulling cold air into the room and defeating the point of the stove?????

I'd get a 7KW one and block up the air vent if it gets too cold. You'll have a CO detector as a backup just in case. I doubt it'll even be needed anyway unless you have a bad draw. They are mostly installed just to satisfy the regs.

Thanks for the replies.

The 2 stoves I've been looking at (one 4.7kw and the other 7kw) can both accept a direct air supply - which does seem a better approach - if more costly.

Anybody got experience of installing a direct air supply to a stove - but where the stove isn't on the outside wall?

get a stove that states a nominal 5kw not a max, it will be 4-6KW and should suit you fine also will require no vent, you are better getting a slightly smaller and running it hot. If you have a suspended floor a vent can go in that close to the stove.