How much fuel does your stove use ?

wobbie10

Quick question to all you stove users:

I have an inset inis stove recently installed 5-7kw output.
It is my first stove so i am trying to get handle on wood usage.

I am suprised how much wood you can actually go through

I seem to be refueling this beast more than i thought i'd have to.

So roughly speaking how much fuel do i need to get me through winter ??

How much do you manage to burn.

Call me Al

Well I don't know if it is comparable, but we have a 6kw dimpl#x free standing stove. If I light it at 9am and it is a fairly cold day I will get through a full bale of bord na mona briquettes. For an extra cold depths of winter kind of day i am adding a good few scoops of smokless coal and an extra few briquettes. Today I lit it at 10am and I have kept it ticking over with maybe a 1/3 of a bale ( but the only reason I have it lit is because I have a child recovering from surgery lying down on the sofa in front of it).
Best investment we've ever made for this house.

Eta it isn't a wood burner and the grate is set up for all solid fuels, but when we use properly seasoned wood we would get through it at a pace. We really need to keep our bottom vent closed and the top one a little open or it is gone in no time.

wobbie10

Thanks for the reply, i think i need to start using other fuel as well as the wood. maybe some smokeless coal to help it along.

The wood on its own just burns too fast;)

Best of luck with the little one, hope they feel better soon.

310

you need to get fire in stove going good and hot then shut it down close draughts on stove to keep fire if draughts open its all going up chimmey

darrenheaphy

We're using a Waterford Stanley Erin stove, if we were to burn all day it would use about 20 pieces of 40cm wood, it's kiln dried so burns longer. What type of wood are you using?

albert kidd

during the winter i was lighting it at 9 or ten in the morning and it was going all day up until 11 at night..was getting 8 days out of a bag of ecobrite and going through a coal bag of logs a day a mixture of hard/soft wood.its just a room heating insert stove 5kw to the room.

QBE

310 is correct. you need to get combustion right. most likly heat going up the chimney

310

to check your stove as alot of them i fitted are not good or not working right , light your stove get burning good and hot close down draughts and shut air ways down flame should drop as the fire is starving for oxygen this is correct,,: if the flame stays the same after closing down stove then its pulling air some where might be a seal faulty door hinge not closing right i have see doors closed and still see fire flame in the corner as if door out of shape alot of cheap stoves flooded the market so their out their remember you get what you pay for i find stanley stoves very good as they all ways shut down hope this helps