Backboiler stove installation question

[rogerdygas]

I plan on installing a stove with a backboiler.

I only require it to heat one radiator upstairs and was looking at a 2.4kw radiator, but the stove I want outputs 7kw to the backboiler.

I assume i would need either a lower power stove or more radiators? Otherwise it'll boil the water?

I wouldn't mind heating a water tank but as I have a combi this would be very expensive in purchasing a heatstore.

 

[muggles]

Sounds like you'd be better off installing a dry stove and an electric heater. Why do you want a back boiler?

 

[rogerdygas]

Sounds like you'd be better off installing a dry stove and an electric heater. Why do you want a back boiler?

Because I want to heat the whole house. From my experience in the past a stove can heat the downstairs of a property well so would just like a radiator to heat upstairs.

 

[muggles]

If your back boiler is capable of producing 7kW, you'll need 7kW of radiators capable of gravity circulation

 

[rogerdygas]

If your back boiler is capable of producing 7kW, you'll need 7kW of radiators capable of gravity circulation

Just as I suspected.

 

[oldbutnotdead]

Woodburners are lovely but if you're paying for wood its an expensive way to heat the place, specially as you've done the capex (boiler) already