Pellet stove versus Standard stove

Havenowt · 30-11-2021 1:25am #1

Hi All

In the middle of a house renovation, we will be using A2W sys with UFH and Rads up stairs.

it well insulated and sealed. We have taking out the fireplace and want to put in a stove to close up the chimney.

We might go with a non boiler stove, open plan are of 60sqm , would you go pellet or standard stove?

Pellet-

easy start up/no messing with firelighters

feck all ashes

stat controlled

Standard Stove:

no electrics needed

cheaper o buy?

multi fuel

nicer flame, nicer to look at.

more ashes/mess

What are people's opinions?

Thanks

highdef · 30-11-2021 11:12am

I can't offer anything useful just yet however I will be going down this road in the not so distant future and will watch and contribute when I can.

Wearb · 30-11-2021 11:17am

Only advice I can give is to ring around and see how many pellet techs there are about and how much they charge for service.

30-11-2021 11:39am

We have a normal stove for a number of reasons. One being redundancy. In a situation of a prolonged power cut, the stove can be lit and fueled by almost any thing. The heat of the stove top means you can even cook on it in a pinch.

After christmas, the Christmas tree will get chopped up and put in the stove. A neighbour is building his house and has off cuts of wood he gives us and we burn in the stove.

Pellet stove, I'd be concerned that the pellets suddenly become expensive. Or that supply gets reduced. Also, in my last place I had a gas-powered fireplace. We had a power cut and it was cold, and I couldn't light the fireplace because it needed power to be lit. A source of annoyance at the time.

highdef · 30-11-2021 3:12pm

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Agree on the above. I intend to install one pellet stove. Will place it in an inner hall in a fairly large and old house. I will most likely have a boiler model so that it can contribute to the central heating (which is likely to be a pellet boiler). I might install a standard pellet boiler in another room but will have several standard wood burning stoves too for aforementioned power cut reasons and also just to have an alternative.

30-11-2021 4:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118245839#Comment_118245839

And what size is this mansion you are trying to heat?

Havenowt · 30-11-2021 5:15pm

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Hi

Yes , i hear you about the power cut, standard stove wont let you down. There are moving parts in pellet stove too

But i like the idea of flick a switch or remotely turn on a pellet stove if want a blast of extra heat to go with UFH and not have to wait an extended period of time to heat up or if it is too hot to cool down. We have turf /timber at home and it not the best of heat from it compared to coal/ bri etc.

Decisions, decisions.

Havenowt · 30-11-2021 5:20pm

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Old house, is there fireplaces in the bedrooms too? probably be cheap to block up the chimneys in the bedrooms and put in rads.

highdef · 30-11-2021 6:04pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118246616#Comment_118246616

Yes, fireplaces in the 4 main bedrooms on the first floor. There are rads on ground and basement floors at present but all the plumbing will be needing replacing anyway and rads will be fitted to the first floor rooms too. The fireplaces in the first floor bedrooms are rather attractive but unsure if they'll be blocked up or if wood burning stoves will be installed for occasional use (and as emergency backup if there are any power or central heating issues). There will be no open fires in the house, however, for both safety and outside cold ingress reasons.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118246326#Comment_118246326

Big enough and old enough that it'll take a fair bit of energy to heat up, especially initially.

01-12-2021 12:08am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118246880#Comment_118246880

My question was tongue in cheek, but it sounds amazing. I'd put regular wood burning stoves in the bedrooms. Just small ones. From an aesthetic it's much better than blocking up the chimneys.

Havenowt · 01-12-2021 12:35pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118246880#Comment_118246880

Yes, our house would have been similar with fireplaces up stairs, but previous owners removed internal walls and chimneys and rebuilt 4 working ones and two dummy chimneys above the new roof, if ya know what i mean. so we have 6 different stacks with 4 that are functioning on the ground floor which will be fitted with stoves and inserts to seal them.

We had to chance to insulate and seal the house, so have UFH which is nice in the house.

you could fit the Oisin stanley stove, their smallest stove to fill the gap to seal off the chimney in the room.

any pictures of the fireplaces?

Pellet stove versus Standard stove

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