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Solid Fuel Stove

  • 04-10-2010 3:49pm
    #1
    MsBob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭


    Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions.

    We are living in our new build 6 months. Have just started lighting the solid fuel stove. It is only heating the rads blood warm and the water by 3 derees are having a blazing fire on for a full day.

    It has been suggested to us that we may need to install a damper in the exposed part of the flue.

    Does anyone know where I might get on of these either seperatley or as part of a flue.

    Any sggestions will be appreciated :)


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  • #2
    ntpm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 302 ✭✭ntpm


    MsBob wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions.

    We are living in our new build 6 months. Have just started lighting the solid fuel stove. It is only heating the rads blood warm and the water by 3 derees are having a blazing fire on for a full day.

    It has been suggested to us that we may need to install a damper in the exposed part of the flue.

    Does anyone know where I might get on of these either seperatley or as part of a flue.

    Any sggestions will be appreciated :)


    Initial feeling is poor gravity flow through the stove and pipework may not be balaced properly.

    Just an overview of how solid fuel/ stove system works.

    The stove gives priority to heating your hot water first.
    Through a dedicated coil in your cylinder.
    When the cylinder water is heated up enough (ie. the stove can't safely reject any more heat into the hot water) then a pipe stat normally switches on a pump to circulate the excess heat around the radiators.

    There should be a pipe stat should be normally set to around 60-80C.(dependent on which pipe it is connected to and location)
    Any lower then your cylinder will not get hot enough and the readiators will just be luke warm ( i.e you ideally need a large slug of hot water to circulate around the rads to give them a chance of heating.

    Also to note that when the stat kicks in it may be trying to heat all the rads in the house and you probably won't feel the heat. The circuit may be too big.
    I usually try and zone the stove so it heats up say the living area first and then an option to heat the bedrooms etc. This takes a little more work ( and cost a little more) but your plumber could have done this when installing the job in the first place.

    If you have TRV's in the sytem this would greatly improve the effeciency of your stove when trying to heat the radiators.

    Re: stove I wouldn't think you should be fitting and external flue dampers unless the stove manufacturer recommended one.
    I don't understand why you have an exposed flue etc. Has the stove and flue been installed correctly!!!!!!


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