Solid Fuel Gas Or Electric What Do Think?
Hello we are going to have a Victorian stile cast iron fireplace fitted in the front room more as a feature as we have to radiators in there as its a large room we use it for about 3 hours a day is a gas living flame fire expensive to use .or should we go for an electric insert fire and just use the lights or go for a solid fuel fire what do you think.
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December 23, 2009 @ 2:06 am
A gas fire will have to be installed by a CORGI registered engineer and, depending on the state of your flue and chimney, you may have to have a flue liner fitted. All very expensive. 1kW of gas will produce approximately 0.5kW of heat into the room.
An electric fire can be installed simply by yourself. 1kW of electricity will produce approximately 0.9 kW of heat into the room, although electricity costs around three times as much as gas per kW. The joy of an electric fire is you can use it on the fire-glow setting without putting unwanted heat into the room. You can’t do that with a gas fire or with solid fuel
December 23, 2009 @ 8:29 am
get the chimney swept and go for solid fuel mate, i’d love the chance to have a real fire,i’ve got a gas effect coal fire and an electric one,al though they’re both really good they’re not a patch on the real thing,just think how nice a real coal fire will be at christmas,the only downside is making the fire up and emptying the ashes but it’s a small price to pay
December 23, 2009 @ 12:51 pm
If you are sure you will never want to use it for heating the room then electric will do fine. If however you think you might like a low heat, say on an early autumn evening but don’t want to run the entire system then a gas fire would be better.