Electric heating

[provr6]

Wood burning stove with a thermal store would be a good option, you would not really heat directly to the radiators, this is quite a cost effective option, however, you do become a slave to the stove so it is good to install other options. If you have roof space you could add solar water heating.

Glad you are addressing the insulation, the gap between the bricks on victorian houses are not that wide and problems can occur, using a vapour barrier with insulated plasterboard in the internal walls may be an option but disruptive.

I do like the idea of the thermal store as I could use a wooderburner and electric element as back up to heat it. The Solar thermal panel would also be good but I have taken up all my main roof space with PV Panels. I do have an outbuilding I could use about 3m from the house.

The cost would probably start racking up. Would a single solar thermal panel be suitable for a small 3 bed semi cottage? I take it EPC's don't apply to solar thermal.

Food for thought.

 

[Glen Powell]

Solar thermal is not subject to EPC as there is no real fits for it yet, adding the thermal store is pretty straight forward and quite cost effective, my opinion is even if the panel is undersized for the store due to room constraints then it will help suppliment the heating element.

You could also design the thermal store to have multiple elements for boost heating, standard heating, trickle heating. we generally design the thermal stores based on requirement and have them made for us.

Basics of it wood burner works on gravity feed so requires 28mm pipe to store, wood burner is direct feed, solar works on the bottom coil, option of additional heating loop, hot water goes through large heat exchange loop working at mains pressure.

I have a standard schematic should it be required.

 

[RF Solutions]

You could always consider recommending a normal woodstove with a back boiler. Woodwarm are the masters of this they do stoves with up to 80,000btu boilers built in... (or used to it's been a couple of years since i looked at it so they might have more now...)