Hi
I am looking for recommendations for a multi-fuel stove. Will mainly be burning wood but would like to have the option. Preferably with a flat top and a suitable for a direct (external) fuel supply.

Thanks,

C.

Chade Wrote in message:
Hi
I am looking for recommendations for a multi-fuel stove. Will mainly be burning wood but would like to have the option. Preferably with a flat top and a suitable for a direct (external) fuel supply.

Thanks,

C.


What sort of direct fuel supply?
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On 28/10/2020 07:13, Jimk wrote:
Chade Wrote in message:
Hi
I am looking for recommendations for a multi-fuel stove. Will mainly be burning wood but would like to have the option. Preferably with a flat top and a suitable for a direct (external) fuel supply.

Thanks,

C.


What sort of direct fuel supply?


I read that to mean an external fuel bunker where you put in wood
pellets or smokeless coal grains and its fed in by a corkscrew.

Whether such a thing exists is another question, it it does exist in the
case of solid fuel boilers.....

Will be pricey though

S.

On 27/10/2020 22:37, Chade wrote:
Hi I am looking for recommendations for a multi-fuel stove. Will
mainly be burning wood but would like to have the option. Preferably
with a flat top and a suitable for a direct (external) fuel supply.

Are there *any* that even fit those requirements?

Multifuel stoves with a flat top are two a penny, ones with self
cleaning large front windows are a bit rarer. Switching between fuels
involves altering the grate so that coal burns with more air.

You pretty much have to put the fuel in through the front window with
these and undertake various maintainence tasks like ash removal. Coal
generating a fair bit more ash residues than wood does.

All of the direct feed solid fuel furnaces I have seen were in practice
limited to a very specific size of pre-pelleted wood chips that were
compatible with their screw feed fuel handling unit. Most of them looked
pretty big and ugly too - the sort of thing you hide in an outbuilding.

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Martin Brown wrote:
On 27/10/2020 22:37, Chade wrote:
Hi I am looking for recommendations for a multi-fuel stove. Will
mainly be burning wood but would like to have the option. Preferably
with a flat top and a suitable for a direct (external) fuel supply.

Are there *any* that even fit those requirements?

Multifuel stoves with a flat top are two a penny, ones with self
cleaning large front windows are a bit rarer. Switching between fuels
involves altering the grate so that coal burns with more air.

Or in the case of my fire, just flicking over the €œbottom draft€� lever.


You pretty much have to put the fuel in through the front window with
these and undertake various maintainence tasks like ash removal. Coal
generating a fair bit more ash residues than wood does.

All of the direct feed solid fuel furnaces I have seen were in practice
limited to a very specific size of pre-pelleted wood chips that were
compatible with their screw feed fuel handling unit. Most of them looked
pretty big and ugly too - the sort of thing you hide in an outbuilding.

Yep, not sure what the OP is really after. Screw feed stoves are designed
for heating water, not to look pretty or to provide room heating. A
€œrocket€� stove maybe with a chute to feed fuel in?

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Tim+ wrote:
Yep, not sure what the OP is really after. Screw feed stoves are designed
for heating water, not to look pretty or to provide room heating. A
€œrocket€� stove maybe with a chute to feed fuel in?

This sort of thing:
http://woodpelletstove.co.uk/

have a hopper at the top you fill with pellets, and they control the rate of
pellets dropping to get whatever heat you dial it to.

However I can't imagine they would be good with coal, and the hopper is of
the 'lift up and pour from a sack' variety rather than 'blow in pellets from
your 1 ton store delivered by tanker'. So you're filling them from a sack
every day or two depending on how much you run it. Plus you need to empty
the ash pan.

A gas boiler it is not.

Theo

Theo wrote:
Tim+ wrote:
Yep, not sure what the OP is really after. Screw feed stoves are designed
for heating water, not to look pretty or to provide room heating. A
€œrocket€� stove maybe with a chute to feed fuel in?

This sort of thing:
http://woodpelletstove.co.uk/

I stand corrected! Never knew such things existed.

Tim

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On 28/10/2020 10:58, Tim+ wrote:
Theo wrote:
Tim+ wrote:
Yep, not sure what the OP is really after. Screw feed stoves are designed
for heating water, not to look pretty or to provide room heating. A
€œrocket€� stove maybe with a chute to feed fuel in?

This sort of thing:
http://woodpelletstove.co.uk/

I stand corrected! Never knew such things existed.

They are more ornamental that functional though. 5.5kW max output.

The tie in to expensive compressed wood pellets puts me right off.

Unless your house is super insulated it is never going to power the
central heating system. It might perhaps warm one room adequately.

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On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:39:35 +0000, Theo wrote:

Tim+ wrote:
Yep, not sure what the OP is really after. Screw feed stoves are
designed for heating water, not to look pretty or to provide room
heating. A €œrocket€� stove maybe with a chute to feed fuel in?

This sort of thing:
http://woodpelletstove.co.uk/

have a hopper at the top you fill with pellets, and they control the
rate of pellets dropping to get whatever heat you dial it to.

However I can't imagine they would be good with coal, and the hopper is
of the 'lift up and pour from a sack' variety rather than 'blow in
pellets from your 1 ton store delivered by tanker'. So you're filling
them from a sack every day or two depending on how much you run it.
Plus you need to empty the ash pan.

A gas boiler it is not.

Possibly a bit like the Parkray solid fuel central heating boiler and room
heater we had yea those many years ago.

Poured anthracite pellets in the hopper at the top and raked ash and
clinker out of the bottom.
Worked well for a village without gas.

I don't think you could have cooked on it - the top was where the lid for
the hopper was.
We used a sold fuel Rayburn for cooking.


Cheers


Dave R

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Hi
I am looking for recommendations for a multi-fuel stove. Will mainly be
burning wood but would like to have the option. Preferably with a flat top
and a suitable for a direct (external) fuel supply.

Thanks,

C.

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This is a UK group, I'd feel you may be across the pond?
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On Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 5:14:30 AM UTC-4, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
This is a UK group, I'd feel you may be across the pond?
Brian

I am in the uk.

On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 6:37:10 PM UTC-4, Chade wrote:
Hi
I am looking for recommendations for a multi-fuel stove. Will mainly be burning wood but would like to have the option. Preferably with a flat top and a suitable for a direct (external) fuel supply.

Thanks,

C.

Thanks for your replies. However I must apologise I should have typed direct air supply rather than fuel supply. Sorry.

I am after a stove of about 5 kw and am hoping to pipe in the air from the side of the alcove rather than the back.

Chade wrote:

I should have typed direct air supply rather than fuel supply. hoping
to pipe in the air from the side of the alcove rather than the back.

I can't see any where that's obviously the location of the input, space
it far enough from the rear wall and put an elbow on the intake to take
it from the side? Even build a false rear wall to hide the air input
pipework?

On 28/10/2020 23:53, Chade wrote:
Thanks for your replies. However I must apologise I should have typed
direct air supply rather than fuel supply. Sorry.

I am after a stove of about 5 kw and am hoping to pipe in the air
from the side of the alcove rather than the back.

I have a pipe going to the ventilated attic above mine, Works very well.
A pipe to the outside if that is available is also perfectly usable .#
My open fires and (oil) Aga have pipes to the ventilated under floor
cavity, That also works very well.



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On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 10:37:10 PM UTC, Chade wrote:
Hi
I am looking for recommendations for a multi-fuel stove. Will mainly be burning wood but would like to have the option. Preferably with a flat top and a suitable for a direct (external) fuel supply.

Thanks,

C.
Ive bought a
Burley Hollywell 9105
very efficient (89%)

you can buy accessories for direct air supply
and coal burning

Heats my big bedroom which is well insulated

https://www.facebook.com/Burley-Appl...6490744096721/

[george]

On Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 5:49:35 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 10:37:10 PM UTC, Chade wrote:
Hi
I am looking for recommendations for a multi-fuel stove. Will mainly be burning wood but would like to have the option. Preferably with a flat top and a suitable for a direct (external) fuel supply.

Thanks,

C.
Ive bought a
Burley Hollywell 9105
very efficient (89%)

you can buy accessories for direct air supply
and coal burning

Heats my big bedroom which is well insulated

https://www.facebook.com/Burley-Appl...6490744096721/

[george]

Looks very interesting, and has the option of ducting in the air from a right angle.