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Need a cheap multi-fuel stove - recommendations and supplier?

  • 01-03-2011 11:49am
    #1
    pH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭


    I have a small cottage which *had* a Parkray G99, unfortunately the stove (and a few pipes) didn't survive the -18 winter, so I need to get a new one.

    It needs to heat a small living room, 5 rads and a standard H/W cylinder. It needs to be free-standing and it burns mainly turf (with a bit of wood too).

    The cottage mainly gets used spring/summer/autumn, one of the problems with the parkray was too much output to the room, meaning to get the rest of the rooms warm in the evening the living room was too hot, so ideally I'm looking for a stove that while it does heat the room, puts most of its output to the water.

    The stove I am currently considering is the warrior olive, it's criticised for its low room output but I think this might suit us - there were originally radiators in the living room, since removed, but if the olive turned out to be too weak in the room it would be simple to add a rad back in (plumbing all remains). I can get this stove for 750-800 delivered - this really is the max I want to spend, ideally I'd be knocking a couple of hundred off that price - any feed back on that olive stove, where to get it, alternatives stoves at that price or cheaper?

    One question on the plumbing, the Parkray had been plumbed with both input and output on the same side, however I'm being told that these stoves should be fitted criss-cross/diagonal - with the input and output taken from opposite sides. The Parkray looked very neat, I think that having one of the 1" pipes coming round the back of the stove into the opposite side is going to look awful - can I still plumb the new stove both in the same side (albeit with some performance decrease), are there particular free-standing stoves designed to be plumbed on the same side?

    thanks ...


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  • #2
    Stove Fan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭Stove Fan


    pH wrote: »
    I have a small cottage which *had* a Parkray G99, unfortunately the stove (and a few pipes) didn't survive the -18 winter, so I need to get a new one.

    It needs to heat a small living room, 5 rads and a standard H/W cylinder. It needs to be free-standing and it burns mainly turf (with a bit of wood too).

    The cottage mainly gets used spring/summer/autumn, one of the problems with the parkray was too much output to the room, meaning to get the rest of the rooms warm in the evening the living room was too hot, so ideally I'm looking for a stove that while it does heat the room, puts most of its output to the water.

    The stove I am currently considering is the warrior olive, it's criticised for its low room output but I think this might suit us - there were originally radiators in the living room, since removed, but if the olive turned out to be too weak in the room it would be simple to add a rad back in (plumbing all remains). I can get this stove for 750-800 delivered - this really is the max I want to spend, ideally I'd be knocking a couple of hundred off that price - any feed back on that olive stove, where to get it, alternatives stoves at that price or cheaper?

    One question on the plumbing, the Parkray had been plumbed with both input and output on the same side, however I'm being told that these stoves should be fitted criss-cross/diagonal - with the input and output taken from opposite sides. The Parkray looked very neat, I think that having one of the 1" pipes coming round the back of the stove into the opposite side is going to look awful - can I still plumb the new stove both in the same side (albeit with some performance decrease), are there particular free-standing stoves designed to be plumbed on the same side?

    thanks ...

    What is the size of your living room and it's insulation like? You say you will be burning mostly turf. At a quess your old parkray had quite a large boiler and was capable of heating your rads using turf because the boiler in the parkray was oversized for the output needed to heat your rads.

    What size rads have you got? Double,singles?

    The stove as you say should be plumbed crossflow as it increases efficiency and helps prevent hot spots in the boiler. A plumber should be able to hide the crossflow pipes at the rear of the stove. I dont know of any stove being able to use the same side tappings.
    A stove that may be suitable is a villager berkley integral multifuel with 26,000btu (7.6kw) backboiler. We have this stove and bought it in the uk for £740.00 plus delivery. It heats our house great and I would estimate around 3-4kw to the room its in.
    Was this the stove you had in mind? http://www.warriorstoves.co.uk/ If so unless your rads are miniscule I don't think the boiler is big enough at 4.9kw. 3KW of that would be used to heat the hot water depending on cylinder size .


    Stove Fan:)


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