Wood burning stoves; heat output?

[Ken Sington]

Trying to get an idea of magnitude here as I have nothing to judge it by , but if a wood burning stove is described as having a heat output of 7kw, is that a lot or a little?

[jet_noise]

Dear Ken,

fairly small as stoves go, think two 3- bar electric fires @ 1kW per bar.

IIRC there's a table of kW per cubic meter of room space recommendation somewhere if you're serious.

Google how many kw stove for a room,

regards,
Jet

Edited by jet_noise on Wednesday 3rd February 14:04

[Ken Sington]

Cheers, found this link http://www.flickeringflame.co.uk/tech_detail/tech.... which gives me a good idea.

[renmure]

Only advice I would give in not to be tempted to play safe and get one bigger than you really need.

[jaybkay]

A 7 kW log burner is more than big enough to do a large room - as a rough guide work on 1kW per 10 sq metres of floor area.

[fatboy b]

Ours is 8kw max, but it advises that you don't run it flat-out for more than half an hour at a time. I'd guess you need to reduce the quoted output of a fire to give an output it'll produce safely and constantly.

Having said that, we have our CH set to 19'C, and it only cut in twice last night with the woodburner cranked up.

[xxplod]

The heat they put out can be very dependant on the quality of the logs you use!

[susanq]

We have a Jotul F400 which throws out max 12kw. It's in a large-ish room 16ftx16ft with ceilings of 11ft. It takes about an hour to get the room nice and warm then we turn it right down to its lowest to maintain an even room temp. When we had it installed (about 3 years ago now) a trailer load of logs was £60, it's now £90. Apparently there's a huge shortage of logs due to everyone having a log burning stove installed.

Edited by susanq on Thursday 4th February 12:21