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No need to take our word for it - take a look at our Trustpilot reviews. It may not work in your house, but generally we wouldn't have a problem heating a two bedroom house with a staircase. We're exploiting the convection flows, and the stairwell acts as a chimney, so it will generally be very effective.

Go for it! He's a top man.

Not via the pump. You can turn it off or put a tap on the tube - something a few people have done.

Wonder why you'd say that? You'd normally offer such criticism on the basis or some knowledge at least, but obviously have no experience of the Recoheat and no intelligent understanding of the choice of stove - as indeed there could be no expectation that you might have. But thanks for stopping by. If you read the comments from happy customers, you might even learn something!

Thanks so much!

Quite a few people do that, and use painted 10mm copper to make it a bit less unsightly! We don't sell a separate product because it does make the device inherently less effective because you're losing the radiant heat that the unit usually entrains and distributes. But it does work - one chap phoned to say it has been heating his kitchen for two years, and others have it into corridors as well as rooms.

Yes, no problem: we ship direct for £25. Love to send our units to Canada - you've got proper weather for them!

As normal: the coil has an internal diameter of 60mm so it will take professional brushes including traditional and rotary. The only ones it doesn't take are the cheap plastic-headed ones, unfortunately: they go up but don't like coming down because the 50mm plastic heads are too wide.

Thanks very much for your interest! A single skin flue emits about 1kw per metre so the drop out of the working zone is actually pretty fast. The unit would be both less effective and more likely to soot up, so we don't do it in domestic settings. You'll perhaps have seen that a chap has four in series on an old 13kw stove in a workshop - but that's both inefficient so putting lots of heat up the flue, and easily dismountable for cleaning. It's a really important thing with flues that much of the heat going up them isn't waste - it's what makes them function, so the system has to balance the different properties very carefully.

Thanks for this very interesting and most helpful explanation, Will. I’m on board now! I’m still determined to buy two, one for the large new vaulted ceiling room with views at one end of the bungalow, the other I’ll retro fit into the existing 5kw lounge wood stove at the opposite end of the house 👍🏻

@@freeforester1717 Fantastic! The Recoheat certainly helps in vaulted rooms because the rotational action of the destabilised air flow in front of the stove drives the heat to the floor, and it'll typically heat about five times the volume of air as the stove and flue alone. If the insulation in the ceiling is good, the unit should do a very good job.

I’ll be in touch once they’re installed, toward the coming late summer, planning a pincer movement of warm air on the autumn chill! Appleby area, so likely will liaise with the Home and Hearth/Penrith agents, as we need a new stove and flue for the 6x6 viewing room. 👍🏻

@@freeforester1717 Sounds a beautiful setup. Hope it all goes really well. Hearth and Home are fab, so you'd be in good hands. Be lovely to hear how you get on!

Thanks for taking a look. You'll find more descriptive videos on the channel - this one is indeed just looking at an aspect of it. This one tries to present it more fully: ua-cam.com/video/tknNKch8ED8/v-deo.html

Thanks for the feedback Andy. Might be worth getting in touch to discuss, as we might be able to help improve the distribution. The biggest factor will obviously be the balance of the output of your stove with the volume of air you're asking it to heat, beside the convection flows that the warm air produced by the unit can piggy-back off.

Wouldn't it be nice if you knew what you were talking about, or even cared to find out. But do enjoy smashing out your chimney breast to raise the lintel and changing your stove and entire heating system at the cost of £8k or so: it does seem a reasonable comparison.

It would be good to hear a reply, I would have thought a slightly larger port on the reco heat would reduce the noise as its speed of the airflow from the port most likely causing it. Good device though.

It's more of a shushing noise and is louder in the video because of the effect of the flow on the acoustic pick-up. It's also much noisier with a wire probe in the air flow. There is much discussion and attempts to give a clearer picture on other videos. The gauntlet is just because the airflow is bloody hot, as demonstrated.

We don't fit them. Any sweep or installer can do it, and starting with your existing guys is the best thing because much of any cost would be in travel time. There is a list of businesses who already fit them at www.recoheat.co.uk/installers and some of them cover a wide area.

Yep - eggs for breakfast. It could mean that there are two cameras or a separate interlocuter though. Otherwise, liars would have to be pretty thick.

It's impossible to judge from video because the flow messes up the microphone like a shower blocking spy bugs.

It might give the impression that the coil is linked to the combustion chamber and circulates smoke. But it would also mix really fast. Have you seen the physics simulation video that demonstrates it?

Do check out the other videos - plenty to make all things clear!

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Great to speak to you and thanks very much for the interest and engagement!

Thanks so much for sharing the tips and insight.

It depends on the flue temperature. If that will peak at about 250C, you're fine, but if not, it won't be suitable. You need to be able to put 250C through the coil at least once a day for 30 minutes or so to burn off the particles and keep it clean. Some stoves with back boilers won't do that, so check the manufacturer's technical documentation - or just ask them.

Thank you

It depends on the layout, size, leakiness and heat output of the stove, but generally yes. In an open plan scenario it will probably heat four or five times further. The chimney effect of a staircase will actually increase that, as long as the heat source is sufficient for the significant increase in volume.

Well, that's not actually true. Had ours on over Christmas in a crowded room and nobody noticed the noise - just the heat. In a quiet room you certainly notice it until your brain switches it off.

The hiss is from the turbulence rather than the velocity, so the change in bore changes the action and effectiveness of the device. It's a white noise that's more affected by the acoustics in the room than anything else.

Yes, that's pretty much the sound and level. It's caused by the turbulence, so can't be removed without affecting the performance - at the moment. It might eventually be possible but is going to take more R&D than we currently have budget for.

@ some sort of external silencer maybe or a slightly larger bore pipe?

It's the action rather than the volume of the air. It'll be coming out at 2 to 3 litres a second (having expanded from 1 litre per second input) but it's the entrainment of the stove heat in the heated airflow and the roiling action that stirs the hot and cold air int he room together that makes it so much more efficient at heating the room. Once the much greater volume of air is warmed (at a rate about 5 times that of the stove alone, according to the engineering model) that increased volume is what drives the convection flows around the house, which is a process driven by the house rather than the device. So the efficiency and effectiveness is a combination of factors that are small at the outset, including the electrical input of just 17w.

Thank you very much Jeremy - much appreciated

Hardly! Flue sections hand made in Oldham by Pennine and the rest hand fabricated in Suffolk, all in 316 stainless. Only the pumps are Chinese because they're the best quality at the price point. 5 year guarantee on the units, but they aren't wearing out in a decade or two.

and thats all you can think of to say.🙄 Its a very clever piece of kit , with a long guarantee

Had solid fuel for the past 30 years - the cost of smokeless fuel has gone up by 300% - given that about 50% of the heat goes up the chimney , a stove is not the best option. To ensure an optimum output , stoking a stove is a full time job - my multifuel stove was OK with coke - this is no longer made in the UK, all that is available is a molasses briquette of unspecified content which is mainly filler and gives out very little heat. A firing would take over an hour to give out any appreciable heat with this stuff. Hardwood logs are great if you can get them, but again, they are expensive and of uncertain seasoning. In summary, my multifuel stove is rated at 13Kw peak output - given a full firing this sort of output will last maybe 10 to 15 minutes - the average output is a lot less and is insufficient to heat an average home in the coldest months unless you are stoking it continually. At the time of writing, November 2024, solid fuel briquettes are £ 14.50 for 25 kilos , which would last 2 days , plus kindling etc. Not economic or convenient. A solid fuel stove is a great thing to have as an adjunct to central heating, to be used as an atmospheric focal point - but the dust, the smoky blowback, the labour involved in having it as the sole form of heating is only viable when there is no other alternative - believe me , the novelty soon wears off. Just fitted a Worcester Bosch 30kw combi - a revelation after many years of drudgery. The stove remains, cleaned and resprayed - usable in emergencies but with a fire effect LCD screen inside. Bliss....

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Yes, for sure. It would probably be quite a lot of work and you'll need a wet installer. The Hetas website has a list of installers where you can search for the type you need and your postcode.

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We're actually closely related. He's apparently going to leave me quite a lot of his car collection in his will.

@ Unsure if this comment is tongue-in-cheek, if not, then fair play!!!

@@yesno9834 It's perhaps not entirely accurate. 👍

Thanks very much for the interest! We've not videoed a whole presentation, I'm afraid. The installers are on the website at www.recoheat.co.uk/installers

Second year running ours and Electricity cost is pence per day, the pump needs sitting on some sound absorbing material ideally in another room or loft if in a bungalow. The unit does emit a quiet hissing sound when hot air is coming out of the pipe if you are sat directly in-front of the fire . It really does make a huge difference to the comfort of the room by creating positive pressure and warming the space evenly. We recon we use 35-40% less fuel.

It is noisy.... pump is more annoying because vibrations, air pressure less but u still hear it anyway is more warmer in room and u use less fuel

What about sound proof insulation. I am in 300 year old cottage. Definitely look into this

It certainly makes a big difference. 👍

That's awesome! Yes, your 3 step is ideal. If you want to increase convection to extremities, you can also crack open a window in the area you want to pull warmed air into when you open the door, and it will help to establish the flow. You can usually close it once the air is moving. Thanks very much for the enthusiasm!

@@Recoheat thanks, as always.