Back Boiler Stoves

mreel04

Hi,
Has anyone any advise on the best back boiler stove to get for our Living Room. It's a new build and we would like the back boiler to heat our water and hopefully 20-26 radiators. We would also like at least 7kw to the Living room.
Our Living Room is approximatley 23ft x 16ft (part of the ceiling is double height).
Any advise greatly appreciated..

Deise Vu

mreel04 wrote: »

Hi,
Has anyone any advise on the best back boiler stove to get for our Living Room. It's a new build and we would like the back boiler to heat our water and hopefully 20-26 radiators. We would also like at least 7kw to the Living room.
Our Living Room is approximatley 23ft x 16ft (part of the ceiling is double height).
Any advise greatly appreciated..

I'm not an expert but I went through a similar quest a few years ago. Unless you have access to enriched plutonium you haven't a hope in hell of heating 20-26 rads with a back boiler.

A standard stove gives out about 5 MWs of heat, with a back boiler that decreases to less than 3. The advice I got from the vendors was a back boiler would heat 5-6 rads and that is counting your standard room rad of two joined panels as two rads. I got independent advice which basically scared the shyte out of me that I could end up with neither enough heat from the fire nor the rads with the additional possibility of blowing up the stove if I got a leak.

When I added that to the extra installation costs I just went with the bog-standard stove and it was the best purchase I have ever made for the house. The comfort is unreal. With the volume you are heating in your living room, that's the option I would pick.

mreel04

Hi Desie Vu,
Thought I might be aiming a bit high!!
Thanks for the advise..