Inset Stove

What are you burning in it.

Just off the top of my head, I would guess you would cook yourself in that room if you had a stove fired up enough to heat multiple rads.

Yes, you would need a pump to circulate the water to and from the rads.

You could get a pump from a plumbing suppliers. I wouldn't know if a stove retailer would have them. We had a large Stanley range with a back boiler in a previous house, but it was in a large kitchen with attached dining room so it was OK as there was a lot of volume to heat. I currently just have a free standing stove in large sitting room with doors either end. I usually have the doors open with the stove running otherwise it would get too hot, even with it just ticking over.

Perhaps someone else might have a better idea, as I am just guessing it would get pretty hot to run multiple rads. In the previous house we just had a conventional boiler put in and the system hooked to that as it was too much mucking about using a solid fuel stove and the constant work required to keep it fueled, cleaning it out and so on.

hi... cnocbui / dendof, thanks for your time for reply.
yes ive read though some the post on here, & a lot of folk are saying that they give a hot heat out.

we brought a run down bungalow yrs ago (10-ish) & it got no heating in & i didnt want to go the extra few pound or extra little time of getting any oil or solid fuel heating in (we had open fire with back boiler...still have) but at the moment for the last 10yrs we have electric heating.. 3 bedroom . 1 living room . 1 kitchen . 1 large bathroom.. but only 1 bedroom used by us.

the heating at mo' is plug in heaters , not storage. & on timers.

living room as..3kw convector , used on half. ..unless its cold then on full & turned up. on from 2pm till 11pm.

our bed room as 750wat convertor. used at may be 1/4 power, on from 7pm till 7am.

these 2 rooms are at 18 - 21 'c (degress cels') maybe little colder in day / maybe warm if we put fire down.

kitchen as a 1200wat pannel oil heater, used at 1/2 power, on all winter .

room temp =14'c - max 18'c (door as cat flap in, flaping with 2 cats, so i not moaning....)

bathroom as 350wat towel rail used at full on all time. & when we have showwers a bathroom wall 2kw fan heat, for 15- 20 minutes.

temp= usally 16'c unless we put on fan then warm = just about ok, could be warmer for me...

the house is just ok. maybe just less than ok, could be better, but im not a heat bug. its ok at evenig time / night time when we sit for the night (out of 10, i would say 8. wife would say 6), day time we'r be at work.

this heating & the rest of the house ie.. kettles..oven..+ = cost of about 7 euro a day., its not bad..im not moaning, but ive heard that these solid fuel stove's will do the same heating +more hotter for less cost...

ive also heard of a grant for this heating.. do you know if thats true.?
i know nothing of how that works either. any idea's.?
im just a get up & go to work, do my job, come home, eat, xbox, bed....& the same next day kind a person... i know car mechanic's, & basic house things, like basic plumbing / electrical, stuff to keep us going, (if you know what i mean)

but yes im going looking a bit more deeper into these stove / insert units. cant wait till the work & mess comes ... not, haha....

any idea, wat kind of time.. cost of heater & piping / rads.. labour / fitting, this will cost.?

would the shop that i buy from know about grant (if there is 1).?
(what is a grant.?) (yes im that bad, i no nothing of it..haha....)

thanks, hope you had time to read.(sorry for big post/reply)
talk to you's soon.

hi Currants, how you doing.? thanks for info.

Il check that link out that you sent.

I haven't checked out on-line what the average cost per day a 2 person (my self & wife) family would use, i personally thought that 7 euro a day was a little high, when i was talking to a friend & he was saying that if the insert stove used a bag of coal per week, on at same time, a bag coal cost's what 40kg say 20euro firelighters 5a (just round it off 25 euro a week) for heating & hot water. Then the other stuff like shower's..kettle..oven, would it this electric cost a 10a.?
Id still save 15 or so a week. what you recon.?

In my mind, i have / drive 2.5 diesel bmw. (its a old 1998) & its doing close to 50 mpg (more than 45 anyways.) Ive had this car for 8-10 yrs, i know a lot about it.

A friend, a few yrs ago had the same size car bmw 2.3 petrol & he said he only got 28 mpg at best.

I couldn't afford to drive his car, & im working.
so am i doing the same in the home, I burning tons of electric for heating+ were i could use something a little cheaper.

I dout it id go the oil way, the cost of oil & the people's i know, say 'o i must get oil soon' another 300euro.

I checked out the in-net last night for fitters, i emailed a guy that supplies & fits, just waiting to see what he say's. but im in no rush, il do a bit of looking around.

Id love the unit in, going around the place with nothing on & roasting ...haha........not sure if the wife would approve...haha......
but seriously yes id love it in. Id like to call into some one's home with one fitted to see the thing in operation. Is there a place that show case these stove's.?

thanks, talk to you's soon again....

that's not a bad price...& its polish coal.?
i got 40kg bag.. of house hold coal, some of the lumps are / look --polish,-- some sort of man made compressed stuff that burn away to dust like turf. its not bad stuff, 15 euro per bag, including vat.

yes, its not to bad, the inner walls are drylined. loft is rock wooled.