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Retirement with No Problem
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Moore 2 Life
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larner's Blog
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Restoring Theodora
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tafelblog
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Misterton
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Sunshine River Tours's Blog
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Chris J W's Blog
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what can you use for central heating in a narrowboat do calorifies work for that??
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Hadar
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Narrowboat Mr David's Blog
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Picture This
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Doug Blane's Blog
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Pyxis' Prattlings
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Smoke on the Water
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Traditional narrowboat chimneys and exhausts.
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I used to be a plastic box...
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BETA OIL CHANGE PUZZLE
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Life, The Universe & Everything - Grand Tour 2010
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JACK FELL's Blog
I have a 23ft narrowboat which comes with a Villager Heron 5Kw Multi-Fuel stove. I’m limited to mainly burning smokeless fuels to minimise the stove’s heat output since it only has lower airflow control, it tends to be a blast furnace when using wood. I’m yet to master keeping the stove going until the morning and it starts getting a bit chilly waking up in the mornings. If I bank the fire up before bed; even if I close it right down, the heat can get overwhelming. I used to live in a flat fitted with storage heaters which got me looking at trying out a crude form of thermal mass storage using clay bricks or concrete paving slabs laid up against the stove’s sides and back wall. Has anybody tried this method? I’ve heard of adding another thin layer of fire bricks inside the grate but I was more thinking the outside since the firebox is already quite small. Would insulating the stoves heat from the outside cause issues with the steel body? I have about 10cm of clearance all around the stove but also have a concern that the weight of bricks quickly adds up to being the at least the same weight again as the stove and could cause issues with the supporting hearth? I guess my main question is; would a dozen or so bricks on the stoves top and sides release the heat slower and store enough heat for a couple more hours of warmth in the mornings?