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Stove Boiler to heat immersion

  • 30-08-2011 10:24pm
    #1
    dialer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭


    Hi Guys,

    Trawled through pages of post's but no accurate answer to a question.

    We live in your average 3 bed semi, and are looking to dump the open fire in favour of a stove boiler.

    She is really keen on having it connected to the immersion only to which i agree, as the size of the stove in terms of kw would be still marginally small.
    However I'm curious as to the efficiency if it also heats just the upstairs 4 rads ? will i loose immersion water heat or will it require vast ammount of fuel to maintain rad heat v's emmersion only.

    I understand the difference in direction plumbing taken by both methods.

    Thanking in advance


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  • #2
    Marcanthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭Marcanthony


    dialer wrote: »
    Hi Guys,

    Trawled through pages of post's but no accurate answer to a question.

    We live in your average 3 bed semi, and are looking to dump the open fire in favour of a stove boiler.

    She is really keen on having it connected to the immersion only to which i agree, as the size of the stove in terms of kw would be still marginally small.
    However I'm curious as to the efficiency if it also heats just the upstairs 4 rads ? will i loose immersion water heat or will it require vast ammount of fuel to maintain rad heat v's emmersion only.

    I understand the difference in direction plumbing taken by both methods.

    Thanking in advance

    DEPENDS ON THE SIZE OF THE STOVE AND HOW YOU USE IT TO HEAT YOUR APPLIANCES. CONNECT THE STOVE TO THE CYLNDER AND PUT A STAT ON THE CYLINDER TO CONTROL THE TEMPETURE TO THE WATER.

    1 KW OF HEAT IS APPROX THE EQUIVALANT OF A SINGLE CONVECTOR RAD (APPROX 600MM X 1000M) FIT TERMOSTATIC RAD VALVES ON RADIATORS.THE LOWER THE SETING OF THE STAT.THE LESS HEAT REQUIRED. IF YOU DONT WANT TO HEAT ALL OR SOME OF THE RADS. TURN THE STATS OFF ON THE RADS OR REDUCE ITS SETTING TO REQUIRE LESS HEAT.

    IF YOUR CYLINDER HAS A TERMOSTAT. IT WILL TURN OFF WHEN IT REACHES ITS TEMPETURE.THE LOWER THE TEMPETURE THE LESS HEAT REQUIRED.I WOULD ESTIMATE A HOT WATER CYLINDER (120 LITERS). WOULD USE ABOUT 7 KW TO HEAT TO A TEMPETURE OF AROUND 50 DEGREES.IF YOU DONT WANT TO HEAT THE WATER TURN THE STAT OFF.

    YOUR FUEL CONSUMPTION CAN BE BASED AROUND YOUR NEEDS FOR HOT WATER AND THE RADS. LESS RADS TO HEAT = LESS FUEL.


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