Replacing oil boiler with stove

MoonMotorway

The last oil delivery told us that we will have to replace the oil tank.

We hope to do the job in the new year. Before we do the job,

I am interested in replacing the boiler with a wood/fire stove instead of having the oil tank and boiler. The boiler is located in the kitchen so if we get a stove it will go there in the centre of the kitchen.

Would it be a big job to replace the boiler with a stove?

How much of a cost would I be looking at?

A friend has a stove and it's also burning and his home is so warm.

Lenar3556

How big is the house?

How old approx?

MoonMotorway

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121435606#Comment_121435606

It's a bungalow. 1980s build. 4 bed.

Lenar3556

You could do it, but it’s going to be quite an undertaking to keep a boiler stove fuelled on an ongoing basis to heat the whole house. Even people with an abundant supply for free or very low cost fire wood would still have an oil or gas boiler in place.

I would say think carefully about the practicality of it. Boiler stoves are a different beast to a standard room heater stove in terms of fuel consumption - They will burn a lot more.

Cost - It’s hard to know without seeing it. But a good boiler stove is probably €3k new. And maybe another €1k by the time it is installed. Probably something similar to having the oil heating replaced with new. (Which is what I would do)

MoonMotorway

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121436168#Comment_121436168

Thanks for your reply.

I would be interested in replacing the oil burner with a wood stove.

Or something else I was looking at is a multifuel stove.

It's only a thought now and only exploring it. It might now come about. Might just replace the oil tank only in the end.

1percent

My oil boiler is out of commission at the moment and using the stove with back boiler, I have a stock of wood from a few trees I cut down in the summer so not paying for fuel. Every day it needs to be cleaned and wood Brought in, about 30min each day. Then it needs to be tended through out the night.

this is not cointIing the days I spent cutting down the trees, cutting off branches, cutting into lenghts, splitting and stacking the logs to season.

It's a novelty to me at the moment and I don't mind as I'll have the boiler back in action in Few days but if this was my life, day in day out it would be hell. So from that point I would advise against it.

Thats before you even get into the economics of it, if you do the maths 1000l/800kg of Kerosene for €1000 at 12kWh/kg a 90% efficency from a combi boiler (8.64kwh/€) vs 1000kg of hard wood for €600 at 5kWh/kg at let's say 50% efficency being generous (1.5kWh/€) oil will give you 5.75 times more bang for your buck. If someone wants to sanity check my numbers and correct me please do

Edit: math was wrong so corrected