Dunsley Yorkshire Boiler Stove?

[robkay]

Running a Clearview 500 stove at the moment and i have to say its been brilliant, heats the 20ftx15ft room nicely and can warm things up a bit too much if you fill it up.......i also have a combi that heats the water and radiators.....after having the gas bill this time around i was thinking it may be worth buying a multifuel boiler stove just to hot the 7 smallish radiators and just connect the bathroom radiator to the combi.....its not a massive house 3 bedroom semi but is in quite a cold spot in a valley and near the canal....I'd go for a Clearview 650 but it has a 7 inch outlet and i have had the flue back filled and lined i think to 6 inches. After looking at different models the Dunsley Yorkshire looks o.k,this is rated at quite a higher output than the stove i'm running now, is it going to be too hot for the room to bring the radiators up to temperature.......anyone using the Dunsley Yorkshire does it seem a decent stove?

Any thoughts appreciated......

First posting here...

Thanks

Rob:biggrin:

[skyhuck]

If you want the clearview just get a stainless adapter from 7" to 6", I really don't think a lightly smaller flue will affect the stoves performance.

[treequip]

I have a dunsley Yorkshire stove with boiler and I have to say it’s not without it’s issues.

Firstly, definitely get a multi fuel grate, the wood grate doesn’t have a riddle and you get a good deal of dust when cleaning it out.

 

The other think I am not keen on is the ‘downburn’ thing, the flue exhausts at the bottom of the firebox and unless you get the refuelling just right you get a dollop of smoke into the room.

 

Like all boiler stoves it’s difficult to keep the glass clear.

 

On the up side mine runs 4 rads and a tank of water so for free heart and water I will

put up with it’s issues.

 

Like Huk says the flue thing isn’t an issue. Mine goes from 6 to 5 inch with no problems.

 

Andy

[robkay]

O.K. Thanks for your thoughts, funny really when i purchased the current Clearview stove i just went to the shop and purchased it without much thought, now we have the internet i spend months researching things and i don't always get it right.....

When we fitted this stove i didn't think i would need the chimney lining and just fitted it and away we went , but fumes were soon seeping through the chimney joints and i had a company into line the chimney.....they put a rubber sausage down and inflated it then back filled it with a substance thet sets a bit like thermal blocks....thats where we get the 6" flue from......

If i can feed the 7" flue into the 6" then i think i'd go with the clearview only on the results we've had with this current stove.......frightened of changing things and wishing i hadn't bothered:biggrin:

Thanks for your thoughts and ideas.....

Rob:biggrin:

[Peter]

Most backboiler stoves should have a kilowatt rating for the boiler and the stove, so you can work out whether the boiler puts out enough to heat your rads.

 

You could also connect the back boiler into the existing system without disconnecting the combi boiler, using a heat exchanger to avoid contaminating the water in the radiator/combi boiler system. Handy if you come in and you want to put the combi on for an hour while your waiting for the log boiler to warm up, and you could easily remove the system later on without altering the existing heating system too much.

[AngusMF250]

There wont be a problem crossing over to a smaller sized flue.

 

The taller the chimney the smaller the liner should be, so if you have, say, a 12ft high chimney, 7" would be fine. If you have a 20ft chimney a 6" would do, 30ft chimney 5" would be fine.

 

I have a Jotul 118 (black bear) in a downstairs room, it heats half the downstairs and 4 bedrooms up stairs, it burns 24/7 from late October to early April. No boiler, just convected heat. Takes a 60cm log, so thats half the cutting, splitting and stacking!!

Cheap way of heating the house and as we get a lot of winter storms, power cuts dont effect us.