Hi

We're considering our heating options at the moment, one of which is this wood pellet stove/cooker/boiler on an RHI scheme. 

We need our heating to be quite flexible, partly because some rooms have woodburners, and partly because of the house layout.  There's the main house, and then an attached large single storey barn..  Sometimes only one or the other will need heat from the Klover.  And sometimes for part of the day, if - for example - the woodburner will be used in the evening.  

So our ideal set up would be one that modulates really well, allowing us to heat the whole or just parts of the house as required.  

The barn will likely have UFH, while the rest of the house has radiators.

Any thoughts much appreciated,

Cheers

IIRC this type of appliance will not qualify for RHI payments as it is only partly used for heating.

My experience of the pellet boiler industry has not been overly positive, if its a route you are seriously considering, then it would be probably best to startwith finding an established (and likely to continue) installation / service company that’s reasonably local to you ( my mums boiler (trianco) having been installed 6 years ago has virtually zero support beyond some spares availability, the company that put it in bo longer service them, to comply with the rhi scheme we have to get a service engineer who travels 5 hours each way (with associated cost) )

Then having found a company see which boilers they recomend and work from there.

The engineer that fitted mums boiler lives in the same village of the 40 odd he was involved in installing the vast majority have been taken out and oil reinstated. The Triancos (and many other pellet boilers) are most certainly not the light touch user friendly machines they were touted as. Whilst not hard to look after it is time consuming and dirty work looking after it, i had the internal feed housing modified as the feed auger wears out every 9 tonnes of so and changing/cleaning it as per original design involved a lot of dismantling.

Whilst i’m sure there are much better designed boilers available the costs ramp up very quickly. Then add on the space required for pellet storage, the need for regular refilling or a bulk store and feed system. Not sure what the current rhi payments are but we had a pretty good rate that has only really just made it economically viable overall and leaves little for what decisions are made once the rhi payments finish.

Whilst most certainly an option it is one that needs very careful consideration and comparison with other heating systems.