In our initial planning, we had a pellet stove with a water jacket. Various dealers said the following about it:
A water-guided stove heats well in the circuit, but this would reduce the heat emitted to the room. In addition, there are the extra costs of a chimney draft, the purchase price for this type of stove is also significantly more expensive, and the heating system must be planned accordingly.
A stove, no matter what kind, would only work well with underfloor heating if you lived by the stove, since the underfloor heating reacts slowly and you might end up throwing the windows wide open because the place gets too warm. We didn’t want to heat for nothing.
Experience from the neighborhood confirmed this statement.
We are now installing a gas condensing boiler with a hot water storage tank and underfloor heating. We had a wood stove in the old house. I’m no longer keen on the mess, making and carrying wood, and my husband hasn’t been able to do it for health reasons for some time. Wood costs us about €70-80 per cubic meter. Therefore, pellets would have been considered.
Without a water jacket and all the extras, the stove would have cost almost €13,000.
A lot of money!
People always argue about types of heating systems.
Go to one or two, three stove builders and get advice. That’s the most sensible thing to do.
You learn a lot from it.