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Selecting a stove

  • 27-03-2017 8:16pm
    #1
    jay0109
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    Newbie here on all thing stove related so looking for some advice. I moved into a new house last year and the living room (about 35sq ft) has a small stove. It's freestanding up against the external wall and there wasn't a chimney there previously in this room. Only lit it once and it smoked so bad we left it alone. A chimney sweep had a look at it and said it was set up all wrong and not to light it again.
    The room is well insulated...we just had new floor to ceiling double glazed windows put in at 1 end of the room. The external wall is internally insulted. There is no vent to the outside.

    So I want to put in a new stove in the coming months and am starting to read up on it now. We'd like to have a flue run inside from the stove up to about 7ft before it breaks out (currently the flue goes straight to the outside from the back of the stove). That would help generate more heat inside the room.
    We'll need a new hearth as well to mount the stove on and some plasterwork done on the wall internally when we take down the gaudy tiles currently in place.
    Ideally one company to do all this work in one go.

    1 question that jumps out at me- will I need an external air supply? I'm not sure of the requirements around this. As it's a well insulated room (though cold in the winter) will that make external air supply ncessary?

    Any recommendations for brands/suppliers (I'm in SthDub)?
    Will anything from 6kw to 8kw cover the needs of the room?
    Any other advice/comments?


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  • #2
    Forge83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Forge83


    Hi, If the room already has a stove there should be an air vent in the room. If you decide to get a new stove then the room will still require an air vent.
    Does the house have a heat recovery system?
    5kw should be plenty for that size room. Huge amount of good stoves in that size on the market. Stone and Stoves Rathcoole would be a good crowd to visit and talk to.Another would be BPM supplies Kylemore.


  • #3
    jay0109
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭jay0109


    No air vent despite a stove being in place.
    But I'll ask whoever gets the job to out in an air vent as well.

    I emailed 10 places last night and most got back to me today. Some of them have come back with quotes 100% higher than others so it pays to shop around.
    BPM were 1 of those to get back to after I saw them recommended on another stove thread here. Very competitive quote. I'm going to visit them this weekend

    Thanks


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