Long Turn wrote: » Hi, We have a small guesthouse, high ceilings and 22 radiators run on oil. We are looking at putting a wood burning stove in a sitting room - with back boiler to heat the rads. We have been recommended a Henley Hampton 30. Has anybody here any knowledge of these or any alternatives. Thanks in advance.
Shefwedfan wrote: » i have circa 21 radiators. Counting in my head now so maybe 1 more. I have the Glenmore 30B. It puts the same heat to the radiators as the Henley. I will fill it up with a load of logs and then probably a full 20kg bag of coal in a day. The rads will be warm and the house will be warm but the heating also kicks in that evening. It is great because it holds the heat, so I can throw a bucket of coal in at nighttime and then in middle of night the radiators will still have heat in them..... You will use a lot of logs/coal if it is the only heater for a house with 21 rads
Long Turn wrote: » We heat the rads with oil at present. I was told that we could use both. The back boiler or oil.
Shefwedfan wrote: » We have the same. Don't get me wrong on a coal day their is nothing better. I fire it up and it will go all day and then keep house warm at night. It will burn a lot of fuel as mentioned. With that amount of rads you will not get piping hot radiators unless the oil kicks in. What I find is a slow build up of heat in the house but once you keep a decent fire going it really does keep the house warm.. My wife who is coldest person in the World complains if I have it going all day/night that the house is too warm at night then to sleep
Long Turn wrote: Thanks for the reply. Hope to use logs mostly. A lot required?
Forge83 wrote: » The sales guy is only reading from the brochure. Anybody with knowledge on stoves who would inspect this stove would tell you it’s design and materials used wo<script id="gpt-impl-0.4468165999398904" src="https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/gpt/pubads_impl_181.js"></script>n’t hold upto coal in the long term. I’m sure also if you requested a test cert from the salesman, he will provide you with one where wood was used and not coal. That’s not a fault on the stove, it’s a quality stove. Just not made for the madness of Irish people who want to burn coal in every stove. No good room heating stove should require coal to heat sufficiently.
Long Turn wrote: » Thanks for the reply. Hope to use logs mostly. A lot required?
Uriel. wrote: » I have the Riva 55, great stove have had no issues with it. Have had some issues with chimney and draw but they've been largely resolved now. Don't think they were stove related.
Barr wrote: » Forge83 wrote: » The sales guy is only reading from the brochure. Anybody with knowledge on stoves who would inspect this stove would tell you it’s design and materials used won’t hold upto coal in the long term. I’m sure also if you requested a test cert from the salesman, he will provide you with one where wood was used and not coal. That’s not a fault on the stove, it’s a quality stove. Just not made for the madness of Irish people who want to burn coal in every stove. No good room heating stove should require coal to heat sufficiently. Thanks Forge , good info there. I would like the option of coal as well as wood so might look for alternatives.
Forge83 wrote: » The sales guy is only reading from the brochure. Anybody with knowledge on stoves who would inspect this stove would tell you it’s design and materials used won’t hold upto coal in the long term. I’m sure also if you requested a test cert from the salesman, he will provide you with one where wood was used and not coal. That’s not a fault on the stove, it’s a quality stove. Just not made for the madness of Irish people who want to burn coal in every stove. No good room heating stove should require coal to heat sufficiently.
Long Turn wrote: » We have a plentiful supply of trees around the house and thought that this would be sufficient. We could start the radiators with the oil boiler for an hour and let the stove keep it topped up for the day. Or am I being too optimistic?
damo80 wrote: » hi looking for some advice please. tried searching but mixed results. with the "beast of east" coming can you tell me if its safe to light my boiler stove with no electricity - some posts saying yes and others no? if ESB goes when lit whats best procedure then? also and probably most relevant but is it safe to light stove with no mains water (frozen mains) many thanks for any help
chuck eastwood wrote: » Mains water going makes no difference. Heating is a separate system. If your electricity goes and yoy can power a circulating pump then do not attempt to light the stove. It will boilthe water and damage your stove
funkey_monkey wrote: » Hi, does anyone have recommendations for a stove fan and is a thermometer on the stove a necessary addition?
Mickeroo wrote: » Do Stove fans work? And would they fit on top of an inset?
leck wrote: » I'm wondering the same as I have an inset stove in the sitting-room which gets nice and warm and there is an archway into the kitchen next to it, but the warm air doesn't circulate into that space. It seems you would need a shelf to attach a fan. And the shelf conducts the heat to the fan. There is this shelf on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Valiant-FIR134-Inset-Stove-Bracket/dp/B01M9D3R3S
Vetch wrote: » I'm in the market for an inset stove and have been reading this and other threads, and about various problems people have written about. I'm trying to understand what the biggest causes of problems are in order to educate myself a bit. Is it poor installation? Is it poor stoves? Is it stove users not experimenting with stove settings to get it right? Problems with chimneys? Is it a bit of all of them or something else altogether?
