ASHPs and wood boiler stove

Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

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Rupertw

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Topic starter 14/05/2021 8:15 pm

hi. I live in a 300 year old house. We’ve done our best, but the insulation is poor and always will be. We’re used to being cold in the winter and have a wood burning stove. We spend about £2000 per annum on heating oil. We thinking of getting a ASHP and a wood burning boiler stove. Essentially the ASHP will be all we need in the summer and the stove can top up in the winter. We have an unlimited supply of free seasoned wood. Any thoughts? Thx R

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Phil3822

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15/05/2021 3:08 pm

Welcome, in one of my previous houses the open fire and back boiler plumbed into radiators and was the only form of heating. It also provided hot water with an immersion. This was a large farm house and although I would not want it as my only form of heating now I think this would be a good idea. Huge output of heat possible. I am also looking at high temperature air source heat pump ideas with members here have had installed. Not sure this would suffice in a very poorly insulated place but others would advise. Based on your free wood it seems a forgone conclusion in your case.

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Derek M

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15/05/2021 4:47 pm

Hi Rupertw,

Any form of heating in a poorly insulated home is going to be expensive, so I suggest that you should look again at ways to reduce heat loss. If you look in other areas of the forum you will see examples of different ways of improving levels of insulation, both internally and externally.

I am not an expert on wood burning stoves, but the problem with having anything with a chimney inside a property, is that it involves the need for a supply of fresh air. This in turn increases the buildings heat loss. For best efficiency I would think having ducting that supplies the fresh air would be preferable, or to have the wood burner external to the main body of the building.

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