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Hi, I'm new to this forum and would be grateful if someone has any advice regarding the following. We are currently building a small kitchen/diner extension and I have underfloor heating planned for it. We are tight for space so am thinking of putting the manifold in the pantry cupboard I'm planning on putting in the corner. My question is: Do manifolds give out much heat? I ask because our condenser boiler feels cool to touch when it's on. Can the manifold be adequately boxed in with insulation (but also accessible) that it doesn’t give off heat if its put in the pantry? Thanks
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Nominally, I know the rating of the stove (5kW) in our current house, but I guess that most of its output goes into warming the arses of the local sparrows. Readying the house for sale, or maybe rent, I appreciate that most people aren't as devoted as I am in terms of paying daily homage to the fiery monster in the inglenook. The stove has a back-boiler, and it does a spiffing job of producing super-heated-close-to-boiling-water every night ready for SWMBO's bath. It provides heat for a few scalding radiators too. So much so that it's a good deal safer to touch them if there's a bit of air trapped in the rads. There's no way any purchaser or renter is going to tolerate that. How do I guess -or work out even- how much electricity (or kWH) of electricity I need to produce the same (or slightly less) 'comfort'? I know exactly how much anthracite we have consumed over the years (2 bags per week in't season). Is it possible from that information to work out how many kWh I have put in? And then make a guess at the number of kWh has gone into warming the local sparrows? And thus derive the number of nice clean kWh of E7 I will need? (Gas isn't a possibility). I am aware of @JSHarris calculator (and other online calculators), but I wanted to check those results against a reverse-engineered number
