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Double sided stoves

  • 09-09-2017 7:49pm
    #1
    Househunter16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭


    Hi, I'm looking for information on double sided stoves.Its for a open plan room, the kitchen/dinning and sun room, was intending on putting it between the dinning and sun room, are they good at putting out heat,also if it had a back boiler would it take alot of heat away from the stove when the rads are an.Is there a big difference between stovex and boru stoves. Thanks.


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


    Househunter16 wrote: »
    Hi, I'm looking for information on double sided stoves.Its for a open plan room, the kitchen/dinning and sun room, was intending on putting it between the dinning and sun room, are they good at putting out heat,also if it had a back boiler would it take alot of heat away from the stove when the rads are an.Is there a big difference between stovex and boru stoves. Thanks.

    New build house or retrofit/renovation?
    Double Sided Freestanding boiler stoves are illogical. They simply cannot be efficient.
    Double Sided room heaters are a better job. Stovax and Boru is like comparing BMW to Opel.


  • #3
    Househunter16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭Househunter16


    Its a new build, it's hard to know what way to heat the rooms. Thanks.


  • #4
    Wearb
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 6,471 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wearb


    Househunter16 wrote: »
    Its a new build, it's hard to know what way to heat the rooms. Thanks.

    What BER does architect or builder suggest you will have on completion? What other heat sources have been specified? Or are you just at design stage?


  • #5
    Househunter16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭Househunter16


    Wearb wrote: »
    What BER does architect or builder suggest you will have on completion? What other heat sources have been specified? Or are you just at design stage?

    just at the design stage, we will also have oil and I think solar panels aswell.


  • #6
    Wearb
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 6,471 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wearb


    Househunter16 wrote: »
    just at the design stage, we will also have oil and I think solar panels aswell.

    My opinion (and there are lots of different ones on this) on heating houses that are built to modern standards is to go underfloor and some sort of heat pump, whether this be air to water or bore holes or ground source.


    I would only use a dry stove and that would for the most part be cosmetic or used at beginning or end of heating season, or to provide space heating in the event of a system breakdown, or to top up heating if temperatures dropped drastically and suddenly.

    Oil with a properly designed system would also work well.


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  • #7
    Househunter16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭Househunter16


    That's sound thanks, so if we are to use the double sided stoves probably better to not have a boiler an it, just use it to heat the rooms alone.


  • #8
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,810 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    As WearB says A2W or W2W tied to UFH, with the oil as back up, if you wish.
    Forget the solar panels. Use MHRV also.
    The dry double stove will nice. Probably not the highest efficiency, but it won't matter. The MHRV can distribute the heat from the stove.


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