Stove as main heat source

[Rich Rule]

Probably in a slight different situation to others in here.  The house is 10 years old so retains the heat pretty well.  I am also in Norway so we don’t have mains gas to residential properties.  There is a Varmepumper (like AC but hot or cool) to circulate warm air and an air system to circulate the air in the property.  We have one stove in the kitchen living area and it does very nicely in heating the whole house.  If we don’t open the upstairs doors it is such a heat you could sit in ya pants and still sweat.

 

I try and squirrel away decent hardwoods over the year and split and stack for the coming winter.  Spruce, Pine and Birch is everywhere so that is a back up.

 

-6c here today but feels lovely and warm in the house proper nips outside. We had the fire going last night but didn’t really stuff anything in after 21.30.  Nice residual heat in the downstairs when I got up for an eye lash at 0430.  
 

Relit again today about 1100 and have a couple of oak and elm logs on there.

[Mik the Miller]

That looks ace .... is that a lump of granit on the top ?

[Dazza95]

Very nice Rich, does your ‘air system’ incorporate heat recovery?

[Dan Maynard]

You do open the upstairs doors though? Don't want the thought of another arbtalker by the fire in his undercrackers.

[neiln]

4 hours ago, Mik the Miller said:

That looks ace .... is that a lump of granit on the top ?

Or soapstone?

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I built my house in 1983 and did all the plumbing myself and electrics as I could not afford to do otherwise.  The theory being that if the place caught fire due to my faulty electrics, my faulty plumbing should put it out !

I started off with a Bosky 90, Jack of all trades and master of none, so it was scrapped.  Managed to connect to mains gas in 1986 even though I am way out in the country, but the main happens to run past my front driveway.  Connected a Condensing gas boiler to an Aarrow Stratford boiler via a Dunsley  neutraliser.   This works so that the gas boiler senses when the Aarrow has cooled down and will start up.   Gas comes on only on cold nights.

We have a Danish Aduro 9 stove in another room which is very efficient and just on for watching a film on TV and an open fire built to Count Rumford specification in another room, which is only used to welcome guests. I thoroughly recommend both of those.

The summer water is heated by solar tubes on the roof which work well

The Aarrow is in a conservatory which has a door opening to the driveway so that I can deposit a 6x3x4 foot box (Old potato ton box) of wood right by the door.  The wood is dropped loose from the Palax conveyor and not stacked so there is plenty of air in it and I would be surprised if it weighed more than half a ton but I will weigh one to find out.

We go through one box of Ash or Sycamore every ten days. From about the beginning of last November to April we used 15 boxes.

When I started living here on my own I hardly used any wood, then I decided to marry.............

20 radiators and three underfloor heating systems now!

The Aarrow I can thoroughly recommend, well built and reliable.

But we have a lot of wood here and it is free, as is my labour.  I feel it is important to have the main stove in the conservatory  and out of the main house which keeps the dirt and dust out, but also gives easy access to the wood and to the ash bin.  I could not operate such a system without a Teleporter.

[Rich Rule]

On 28/11/2020 at 18:27, Mik the Miller said:

That looks ace .... is that a lump of granit on the top ?

Soapstone I think it is called.

 

Sorry to be vague, but it was all in when I bought the house.  I am sure I would have been a bit more knowledgeable if I had sourced it and had it fitted myself.

[Rich Rule]

21 hours ago, Dazza95 said:

Very nice Rich, does your ‘air system’ incorporate heat recovery?

Again, not exactly sure mate.  The Varmepumper is like an aircon system, you can set it to cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

 

The other thing we have is pretty common here and that just circulates and filters air though the rooms...  Every room is connected with vents in the roof.  You don't adjust temperature at all it just tries to keep a constant ambient temperature throughout the house.

 

Considering there is no natural gas to houses here in Norway, they certainly know how to keep a house warm.  A lot of places have underfloor heating as well.  We only have that in the bathrooms and the garage.

[pancakedan]

We only have that in the bathrooms and the garage.

Underfloor heating in the garage, wish I had that in mine!

[Rich Rule]

Haha.  Not what you think.  It is an electric cable set in the concrete.  Have it set to about 10c, just stops the cars freezing or any run off freezing.  Fairly standard here.

 

I say we have, it is actually being built at the moment.