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Heating Options

  • 04-11-2013 9:57pm
    #1
    OfficerHalfwit
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭


    Well folks,

    Looking for a bit of advise from those in the know. We are starting to renovate and build onto a house in the new year and we really don't know what heating system or systems to use.

    The house is currently 1,100 ft sq and we are building on around 1,200 ft sq so basically doubling in size. It's a detached house in the country. There is currently a solid fuel stove in the house and also an oil burner. Neither of these would be sufficient when it's extended.

    We had decided on a wood pellet burner but the model we were looking at is €12,000 and we've just discovered that there is no grant for these anymore. Added to the expense of building a garage immediately to store it and the pellets we are beginning to feel that the outlay in money would take years and years make up, if ever.

    The model we were looking at is tried and tested over the last six years by family and heats a 2,200 sq ft house for approx €900 - €1,000 per year and has never given them trouble so we have no concerns about the boiler itself, just the cost!

    Their house is new build and is all underfloor heating though where as our's will be a combination of underfloor and rads and the existing house will have to be re-plumbed and retrofitted which is also a concern as I have heard that combining UFH and rads does not work as well as just one or the other.

    Anyway I've rambled on a bit. All advice welcome.

    Cheers.


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