Stoves

[claraman]

Hi everyone,
I'm thinking of buying a stove with a boiler to replace a range. I require a stove that would heat 7 radiators (including the immersion heater) and would also give 4kw's of heat to the room. I've been looking and pricing and the best i can see, that would meet what wi require, is a Broseley Hercules 12B.
Does anybody know if stoves give out the exact heat that that they're supposed to? Does anybody have one of these stoves and if so, how does it preform? I dont know if i should go for something that gives off more heat, just to be sure it'll be sufficent, or weather the particular one i'm looking at will do. �1000 + is a lot of money to be spending if it doesn't do what i want it to do.

thanks

[buildersmate]

It makes sense to do some of the groundwork on a project like this (so you know the sort of thing you want to buy). But making decisions on the size of the heating unit you require is really a job for a heating engineer or a decent plumber who is a heating specialist.
The spec. you are reading from that says 'up to 7 radiators' is making a heck of a lot of assumptions about the size of the radiators. If you are contemplating revamping the whole of your system and putting a new heat unit inside to replace the outhouse one (I read your other post) together with a conventional cooker then fine, but these Broseley units have an efficiency of only 73% (modern condensing boilers are over 90%) and the one you've picked out has only a 12kW total output. I've no idea how big your house is, but a 4 bed house well insulated with a couple of bathrooms is likely to need around 25-30kW of peak output.

[claraman]

Thanks for your answer and i agree that i should consult a heating specialist before spending that kind of money. I think a few extra pound would be money well spent to get the best professional advice instead of taking a chance and finding out that the heat output is not sufficent.
The boiler wouldn't be replacing anything as its already there. the heating system is dual, which means we can use solid fuel in the range or oil with the boiler, to heat the water. The boiler would remain but i would hope to replace the range with a stove as we never use the oven in the range.

By the way, The house is a 4 bedroom, bathroom, kitcken, utility room and living room bungalow thats poorly insulated because of the age of the house.