Oil burning stove...advice please

fatchance

Hi all,

considering getting an oil burning stove without back boiler, it'll be solely for an extra blast of heat in the evenings. Decided to get oil stove instead of solid fuel for handyness sake and for quick heat. Solid fuel stove would put us out of the room with heat whereas oil stove we could turn it up or down or even off when heat to much.

Can you recommend a paticular brand or maybe you have one, how do you find it? Does it smell?

Not very familiar with oil stoves, nobody I know has one. Don't even try and explain "Kw output" to me, haven't a clue, but if you could tell me a minimun to get that would be fab.

Any advice/help/recommendations much appreciated thanks.

Fatchance.

PeteHeat

Hi,

Kw output is the same for oil, gas, pellet and solid fuel stoves, each unit is tested to heat output capability.

You can use simple on line calculators like the one here to work out the heat required for your room http://www.hunterstoves.co.uk/output.html

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MayoForSam

Would you believe we are looking at taking out our Stanley Oisin oil stove and replacing it with a solid-fuel version?

Reason being that my missus wants the bit of extra heat in the middle of the day plus we might consider running a few rads off it too.

The oil stove we have is very handy though, heats up in about 10 minutes and perfect for a small to medium sized room (our living room is about 14' square). Have you a pipe handy to run to your tank / boiler? We never had any problems with fumes, etc., just lined our existing chimney with some stainless steel flexible flue and put in a steel register plate behind the stove to block off the fireplace opening.

In fact, I might be able to do a deal if you are looking for an Oisin, PM me if you want .

Kb147

His, am I in the wrong place??
This is my very first question.
Can I convert an old Stanley gas burning cooker / boiler, to an oil burning cooker instead?
Please advise, and rough cost?

roots2branches

Are the flu requirments the same for oil stoves? I don't have a chimney above the fireplace anymore but I have a space waiting for a flu which will requre a 90 degree bend then up all the way to the roof. Been told I need double lined flu and the cost is mighty just for the flu. I'm guessing it's the same story for oil stoves?

stratowide

roots2branches wrote: »

Are the flu requirments the same for oil stoves? I don't have a chimney above the fireplace anymore but I have a space waiting for a flu which will requre a 90 degree bend then up all the way to the roof. Been told I need double lined flu and the cost is mighty just for the flu. I'm guessing it's the same story for oil stoves?

Don't think stoves can catch the flu..

Flues on the other hand.:D

blackbox

We have a Nestor Martin oil stove which is an excellent unit.

However it is designed for continuous use rather than quick heat. We run it from October to April, stopping only to clean it about every two months.

It is a cast iron unit and takes several hours to give out full heat - wouldn't be suitable for turning off every day.