Ecosy stoves/recommendations

[Mr. Squirrel]

Hey folks,

 

After some advice on a new stove. We’ve got an open plan kitchen living room, ~5x10m. The stove has been out of action for some time as after moving in we realised the numpty who’d installed it had timber too close to the flue. Then we realised they’d also cut the lintel out… it’s a thing… it’s due to be fixed in feb. 

 

Anyway, we’ve got a Jotul f100 in at the moment. It’s a decent enough stove but it struggles with the space. I’ve been looking at the ecosy panoramic 9, which looks pretty good on paper, but for the world of stoves it’s kinda cheap. Has anyone used ecosy stoves and what are your thoughts? 
 

Also if we were to go that route, I presume we’d need to vent the room? Seems like a head ache for an old stone house? 
 

Any thoughts or recommendations appreciated. 

[Steven P]

Looks OK, the website says all the right stuff. I am no expert though - someone will no doubt have experience of this one.

 

Are their any reviews online?

 

It is a larger stove, 7kw nominal and so yes, you'll need an air vent in the room - googling the rules to check,   you should get 5kw before you need an air vent and then each kw a 50p sized hole (so 2 off them), of course as close to the stove the better.

 

I only have 5kw but also have an air vent coming up directly by the stove from the under floor crawl space (which has plenty of air bricks) - I can seal the house up all I want - point is you might get a bit inventive as to where those air vents are?

 

Last comments, if you are getting the lintel fixed in Feb, then that sounds like an ideal time to have worked out the stove you are getting and make any other changes you might ned by then (might be the opening needs to be larger, it might come into the room further and need a wider hearth and so on).

 

Did you also check that the lintel has been removed, some older stove cottages had tall fire places, the lintel further up an then filled downwards to their current height - irrelevant maybe I'd still want a lintel above the opening I think

[Peasgood]

There are a wide variety of modern stoves that have the vent to the fire rather than the room, I think I would take that route if I was fitting a new fire.

May have said this before but my 5kw fire is too much for my living room, you need the doors open and it is a decent sized room.

[Mr. Squirrel]

On 23/12/2022 at 19:40, Steven P said:

Looks OK, the website says all the right stuff. I am no expert though - someone will no doubt have experience of this one.

 

Are their any reviews online?

 

It is a larger stove, 7kw nominal and so yes, you'll need an air vent in the room - googling the rules to check,   you should get 5kw before you need an air vent and then each kw a 50p sized hole (so 2 off them), of course as close to the stove the better.

 

I only have 5kw but also have an air vent coming up directly by the stove from the under floor crawl space (which has plenty of air bricks) - I can seal the house up all I want - point is you might get a bit inventive as to where those air vents are?

 

Last comments, if you are getting the lintel fixed in Feb, then that sounds like an ideal time to have worked out the stove you are getting and make any other changes you might ned by then (might be the opening needs to be larger, it might come into the room further and need a wider hearth and so on).

 

Did you also check that the lintel has been removed, some older stove cottages had tall fire places, the lintel further up an then filled downwards to their current height - irrelevant maybe I'd still want a lintel above the opening I think

I found limited reviews from people who aren’t selling them. What they say might be entirely true but it’s nice to have an independent review isn’t it? 
 

We live on a hill so it’s an upside down house, the living room kitchen is upstairs. As such there’s no air bricks ventilating the floor space, though it’s certainly quite ventilated between the plaster board and stone wall. Might be an option, though would have to chat to the installer some more. 
 

There was definitely a proper lintel, you can see where the person who installed it cut through a beautiful sand stone block and then removed some of the chimney breast in order to get the flue pipe up. This left the framing for the plasterboard much to close to the flue.  I’m not in construction, but I can see that isn’t right…