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New living space - electric fire v oil stove?

papamike · 2012-06-10 22:39:20

Hope this is the correct place for this - Mods please move if not. We are looking to do a bit of work on our house - breaking through from our kitchen/dining room/living room into currently unused front room and will be using the front room as our main living space but will be open plan with kitchen/dining room. We have…

10-06-2012 10:39pm

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papamike

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Hope this is the correct place for this - Mods please move if not.

We are looking to do a bit of work on our house - breaking through from our kitchen/dining room/living room into currently unused front room and will be using the front room as our main living space but will be open plan with kitchen/dining room.

We have underfloor heating throughout, run off geothermal heat pump, but feel we will need an additional heat source in this room. The room is 20ft x 14ft and is north facing so a little cooler than the kitchen/dining room.

We are currently debating between an oil stove or electric fire - gas not an option, not keen on solid fuel. We have a small oil stove (max output 5kw) in the kitchen/dining room/living room and have found ourselves turning it on quite a bit so feel we may need something similar in front room.

Any advice out there as to what would be most efficient heat source for the new room? Electric fires seem to be about the 2kw mark and any calculations I've seen online seem to indicate we'd need at least 4.5kw for a room this size but think that may be to heat the room completely from scratch but we'll already have the underfloor. Would 2kw be enough?

Thanks in advance.

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