advice needed about stoves

pauldnan

Hi all, I know stoves has been well covered in other threads but i cant seem to find any answers to my specific ques. i am on the verge of buying either a mulberry yeats or an olyberyl olive boiler model stove and i cant decide. Its to heat small sitting room and more than likely 4 to 5 rads some of them being small. house is well insulated and has oil too. Not a massive fan of it being too hot as ive been in other peoples house who had thier stoves flat out and had to leave yet they found it fine but still would like it cosy. Im looking for opinions of people who have experience with either of these stoves that might know if the yeats would be powerful enough to do the trick or maybe the olive would be oversized or just right. Fuel economy would be a big thing for me as i believe the heat you require from stoves is directly proportional to the amount of fuel you put in it... or maybe theres an even better stove out there. The more i research stoves the more confused i get. Thanks in advance

tommer

Hi I recently installed a blacksmith stove in my 2 bed bungalow heating 6 rads I took out the rad in sitting room, as a big fan of the open fire I eventually gave in to the misses, wish i done it years ago simple to fit and very easy on fuel, i burn logs, coal , briquettes, best thing i ever done , easily halved consumption of fuel well worth it

pauldnan

tommer wrote: »

Hi I recently installed a blacksmith stove in my 2 bed bungalow heating 6 rads I took out the rad in sitting room, as a big fan of the open fire I eventually gave in to the misses, wish i done it years ago simple to fit and very easy on fuel, i burn logs, coal , briquettes, best thing i ever done , easily halved consumption of fuel well worth it

Thanks tommer. What model blacksmith was it.

tommer

The bellows boiler model 11kw gives 5kw (7000BTU) to room and 6kw to water heats 5-6 rads, i find it a great stove and a 5 year guarantee with fire box and boiler. Blacksmith stoves waterford business park cork road waterford. Hope this helps

pauldnan

tommer wrote: »

The bellows boiler model 11kw gives 5kw (7000BTU) to room and 6kw to water heats 5-6 rads, i find it a great stove and a 5 year guarantee with fire box and boiler. Blacksmith stoves waterford business park cork road waterford. Hope this helps

Thanks again tommer. They are a nice looking stove and get very good reviews too. Can I ask one last ques and then il leave you in peace. On a normal 6 to 7 hour burn in normal coldish irish weather would you use much fuel

tommer

In my old open fire i was burning 2 baskets of logs and half bucket of coal, now it's one basket of logs and about 3 fire shovel of coal, log basket about 14 inches high and 22 inches in round, normal size coal bucket, its the best day's work I've ever done highly recommend, hope this helps

Sanchez83

Here's a rough guide to comparing fuel usage.
If you had an open fire, it would have been approx 15% efficent.
Therefore if you spent e100 on fuel you would actually only be getting e15 worth of heat,the rest is up the chimney.
Hence purchasing a stove with a high CERTIFIED efficency makes financial sense even if it costs a bit extra on initial purchase.
A good efficency is 75-85%.However be aware that a lot of companies claim an efficency without actually ever testing it.Ask for certification.
Normally boiler stoves are slightly less efficent than room heater stoves.
Also stoves are normally more efficent with dry timber(less than 20% moisture) than other fuels..

pauldnan

Thanks Sanchez, i know stoves are more efficient than open fires its just i am putting it into a house i will be getting in a few weeks and its timber framed and by talking to a few of the neighbours thier rooms get v hot in no time to the point where they have to shut it down and as i said in a previous post not a fan of massive heat. i also think a stove should be ran at what its designed to do rather than slumbering as that only tars up everything and is inefficient. So that why i was thinking maybe a smaller kw stove would do and run it properly. Think im sold on the blacksmith though. Thanks for yer help

Sanchez83

To be honest I would never recommend to anyone to buy a Blacksmith as they are overpriced for what they are.Id say the same about all the older design Waterford Stanley's. Dont get me wrong,they are decent stoves and wouldn't question that they are good products.
The bellows is a copy of the Stanley Tara but other companies have an almost identical stove a lot cheaper.
You will get the following at a far more reasonable price-
Olymberyl Olive
Henley Skellig
Hamco Glendine

pauldnan

ok thanks for the advice i was originally thinking about the olyberyl olive seems to have a high spec but maybe they just say these things. the only thing about blacksmith is the believe thier internal castings are superior quality to others