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Do you have a source of useful tips like this, Builder Ed?My advice is to first of all assess if the stove you purchased is sized correctly. As a rough guide you need to measure the room and multiply the:
height * width * depth (in metres) then divide this by 14.
Is that with one exposed wall or three Builder Ed?This will give you an approximate average heating value required for the room in kilowatts, assuming the room tempeature is 20 degrees with an outside temperature of 0 degrees.
As this is only a rough guide it can change with the number of doors and windows in the room and other factors such as stairs leading off to other rooms. If you have a well insulated house then you may not need a larger stove and can under estimate your heating equirement. Convert feet into metres by dividing by 3.3
I bought a cast iron stove (Glenbarrow) by Hamco, to replace my open fire in the sitting room but no matter what fuel, ie coal, eco logs etc I put on, the heat was better from the open fire. The stove is very hot to touch and when I open the door I get great heat. I can feel that the air is hot to about a foot from the stove but I was expecting to be blown away with heat and I'm not. My chimney sweep says that there is defenetly something wrong but he doesnt know what and when I got the person who installed the fire to take a look at it he said that I have 3 outside walls with large windows and no proper insulation and that is the reason (the fire is 6.5kw). If thats the answer I will accept it, but I still feel that the fire is not throwing out enough heat based on the amount of fuel I am using. Any suggestions>
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