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I'm going to have the stove running my radiators and hot water cylinder If you're using a pump to circulate the water, you may find that during a power cut when the pump is off, you can barely run an efficient woodstove stove above a tepid murmur because the water jacket would overheat. You wouldn't be able to burn it hot enough to cook on, and it wouldn't heat the house much either. A stand-alone stove is more useful in a powercut. True - and of course you can even boil pans of water for baths etc on a stand-alone stove. We don't often have power cuts where I live, as I'm near Bury town centre, but it's true we do occasionally, and it may well happen in the future as energy gets harder to come by generally. The piping from the back of my stove will be going straight up the chimney to my hot water cylinder/radiators, so hopefully during a power cut the laws of physics will prevail and convection will carry the boiling water up the pipes to the much colder cylinder and radiators. In the event of prolonged power cuts, I would simply drain the system and disconnect the stove from the heating system. It's a 10kW stove, and would probably heat the house on its own - although the living room might be a tad warm! Of course it would then also provide cooking facilities too. Whatever brand you choose, before you buy it, ask the dealer to put you in touch with other customers and see if they are satisfied. There are a lot of beautiful but inefficient "decorative feature" stoves out there, which are difficult to control or have a relatively short life. Good stoves like Morso and Hunter last decades and the heat can be fine-tuned (to stay in all night for example). Got a Morso "Dove Cleanheat 1630" :-) Also take care with burning joiners offcuts or demolition scavenges. Sometimes old reclaimed wood has been treated for worm or rot with toxic chemicals whose smoke I wouldn't want to breathe, some of it has been kilndried, and some of it is coniferous softwood. Kilndried offcuts burn so hot and fast it's hard to keep a pleasant steady heat in the room. Softwoods tend to tar the chimney, which can be a fire hazard. Thanks for the advice. Hopefully the "clean burning" design of my stove might eliminate some of these problems, but I'll certainly keep an eye out for these things. Best wishes, Andy |
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