Which multi-fuel stove

Richard C · 28 Jun 2009

Hi all
Wasn’t really sure weather to post this here or plumbing & heating

. I am the market for an inset/cassette multi-fuel stove & talked to a few local suppliers but am getting conflicting info/advice. Most want to push one particular make (not all the same make) & rubbish the others & so I seem to be going around in circles. Anyone got any unbiased views/experience on/with the following;

Stovax Riva 66
Esse 350
Morso 5060

Or can recommend something similar.

legs-akimbo · 28 Jun 2009

Richard C said:
Hi all
Wasn’t really sure weather to post this here or plumbing & heating . I am the market for an inset/cassette multi-fuel stove & talked to a few local suppliers but am getting conflicting info/advice. Most want to push one particular make (not all the same make) & rubbish the others & so I seem to be going around in circles. Anyone got any unbiased views/experience on/with the following;

Stovax Riva 66
Esse 350
Morso 5060

Or can recommend something similar.

All three are good makes and models, I have an Esse free standing stove and cant fault it

legs-akimbo · 28 Jun 2009

Are you going for a model with a backboiler ?

Richard C · 28 Jun 2009

legs-akimbo said:
Are you going for a model with a backboiler ?

Thought about combining one with the main oil fired wet system but decided not to in the end; it all seemed to be far too complicated & expensive. We also considered a double sided stove (lounge/hall) but that got too picky with Building Regs. so it’s now just a focal point in the lounge with the oil burner as the primary whole house system but the stove will obviously provide some heat to the rest of the house.

legs-akimbo · 30 Jun 2009

Would strongly advise getting a backboiler if it is a high output BTU stove, always works much better if the airing cupboard with the cylinder is fairly close, would be a waste to burn solid fuel and not take advantage of running rads off the backboiler at the same time, a good stove gives off mighty heat.... make the most of it and go for a good capacity stove like a Hunter Herald if you can and save on oil costs, the price of oil is not cheap wheras a stove burns coal frugally with great returns.
Are you self building Richard ?

legs-akimbo · 30 Jun 2009

This is the kind of stove I would recomend though the Waterford Stanley are on the expensive side considering they are now built in China and not Ireland, Hunter and Stovax do high output BTU stoves with back boilers

http://www.waterfordstanley.com/Products/993.htm

Richard C · 30 Jun 2009

Thanks for showing an interest legs; not self build as such but there has been doing a lot of on-going building work during the update of a dilapidated property we bought in 2004. Practically everything has been extended, repaired or replaced; last bit is the lounge & that multi-fuel stove which is replacing an open fire. It would have made sense to have a back boiler but after doing some research & considering the upheaval, complications & considerable additional expense involved we dropped the idea & there is no going back now the decision has been taken.

This type of cassettes stove more along the lines of what we are looking for;
http://www.waterfordstanley.com/Products/993.htm

legs-akimbo · 1 Jul 2009

Unless we are talking at cross purposes Richard I would not term that a cassette stove. I would consider a cassette stove to be a solid fuel burning unit but inset to the fire surround and flush fitting.
If the Errin model you have shown is the type you are after then off the top of my head I would also check out sites for Nestor Martin, Dovre, Stanley, Saey, Yeoman, Efel, Stovax, Morso, Aga and Esse.
If you want quality then buy cast iron and not steel, check out the efficiency of the stoves. 80% efficient means 80% of the fuel you feed in is turned into heat so a high energy efficient stove may cost more but will pay for itself over and again.
Cheapy cheap stoves are a waste of money
Contemporay designs, though smart are very expensive and do exactly the same as many costing only half.

Richard C · 1 Jul 2009

legs-akimbo said:
Unless we are talking at cross purposes Richard I would not term that a cassette stove. I would consider a cassette stove to be a solid fuel burning unit but inset to the fire surround and flush fitting.

Don’t know how I managed to paste the wrong link, try this one;
http://www.stovesandfires.com/produ...Woodburners/Stovax_Riva_76_Built_In_Stove.asp

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