Jim K wrote:
On Feb 10, 9:18 pm, robgraham wrote:
On Feb 10, 2:15 pm, "Dave Liquorice"



wrote:
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:18:08 -0800 (PST), Jim K wrote:
There's a grudging heat thrown out, but more than four feet from
it,
you'd never know it was on.
Stoves don't heat by radiation very much it's mostly convection.
ah the old "built in boiler sucking all the heat out" problem unless
you stoke it to F... all day/night....
would be stovees would do well to take note...
Deliberate choice with our stove (Stovax Stockton 11) a normal sized
living room doesn't need more than a few of kW to keep it warm so we
choose a stove with 3kW to room and 7kW to water. Seems to give about
the right amount of heat to the room and a goodly amount to the
thermal store for CH and DHW.
--
Cheers
Dave.
I was a bit surprised at the previous comments about a back-boilered
stove not heating the room. We've a 25 year old Woodwarm and it's
balance must be about the same as Dave's as we get perfectly adequate
heat to the room and to the DHW. The back boiler runs into a Dunsley
Neutraliser along with the oil burner so that the CH can be from
either.

Rob

but seriously how often have you run the CH from the stove?

e.g. what's the oil burner rated at? vs the stove's wet output figure/
claim?


decent stove will pump about 3KW to 5KW into CH system. Not enough for
this weather, but better than sod all.

Jim K