It is an appliance which has a double burn. Air is introduced into the hot gas and re-ignites above the flames. This means you get much more heat from the fuel burning. Many of our stoves and cookers have this feature.
You can install a solid fuel appliance yourself. However, you will have to ensure it meets the relevant building regulations and has it inspected to ensure it is followed. We always recommend getting a qualified HETAS engineer to install and certify stoves or cookers.
We advise that you line or re-line any chimney with a suitable double-skin stainless steel flexible liner. This is only sometimes needed; if you have a clay-lined chimney in good condition, you may not need a flexible liner. This should be inspected.
Yes, as long as it is not over a few years old. You have to assume the appliance you are installing will last well over ten years, and you should plan for the liner to last at least this long.
Biomass is any fuel which has been made from a plant which has been grown for fuel. In the context of heating, this means wood pellets, wood logs, straw pellets, miscanthus pellets, wood chips, nuts, and fruit seeds; in other words, anything solid which can be burnt and is from a plant.
They have compressed wood sawdust, typically 6 or 8 MM in diameter. They produce 4.8 KW of heat per KG, which is higher than wood logs, as wood pellets are much dryer.
Wood pellet boilers and stoves will turn on and off automatically, as a gas or oil boiler would. Wood Pellets produce more heat per KG of fuel than wood logs because records usually are not as dry as wood pellets. Pellets are, in truth, the next step in the evolution of wood as a fuel.
MCS stands for ‘Microgeneration Certification Scheme’; it is a government standards agency which certifies products, installers and their installations for producing low-carbon energy.
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme, or BUS, is a scheme set out by the government in 2022 to provide grants to households upgrading their heating system from an existing fossil fuel or electric heating system.
If you qualify, you could get £5000 off the cost of an air-source heat pump or biomass heating system or £6000 off the price of a ground-source heat pump.
The BUS will not support hybrid heating systems. This extends to any combination of a boiler and electric heat pump, whether installed as a split or integrated system and whether on or off the gas grid.
To be eligible for the BUS, the heat pump or biomass boiler must be capable of meeting the full space heating and hot water demands of the property.
If you have already received government funding or support for a heat pump or biomass boiler, you will not be eligible for this scheme.
Yes, as long as it is not all your heating. When the underfloor is up to temperature, it will turn off, and the Pellet Boiler will not shut down as quickly. Hence an installation will need radiators or towel rails to send the heat.
A water loop is a pumped or gravity circuit through which water flows into a Pellet, Wood-Fired or Biomass boiler in order to heat it.
All boilers have a primary water loop which is used to heat water for central heating AND domestic hot water via a Hot water cylinder.
Some boilers can have a secondary water loop (or separate heat exchanger), allowing the primary loop to be used for central heating. The secondary loop can heat water directly from your mains water supply. This means you might not need a domestic hot water tank, and you can have a continuous flow of hot water.
A ‘Hot water kit’ is simply the inclusion of a secondary water loop in a boiler.
The product range on this website is not exhaustive. We have access to a wide range of stoves, cookers & boilers to meet your exact requirements. If there is a product you’re interested in that isn’t on here, or you want to discuss any possible issues with installation etc., then please get in touch with us. Drop us an email or call us on 01327 307 130