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Big Tone
I got rid of an old fashioned gas fire in my lounge some time ago which I wanted to replace with a modern one. The old one was of the type where heat just comes out from the top, some brown coloured throwback from the 60s I think with no flames or see-through glass window. So I thought what better and easier than to fit a new one; the gas pipe is there and a right sized looking hole in the wall in roughly the right place.
Now I don’t know if the regulations have changed, or whether the old fire was different in some way, but I was told by a learned friend at work that I’d need to put a chimney flu thing running up the outside of the wall ending somewhere up by the guttering! He also said that it would probably cost me more than the fire because they are made from stainless steel.
Is this true? Is there a risk or danger from just having it as it was before with a simple short flu ending with a metal grill stuck against the outside wall at hip height? I should mention that I don’t have a chimney. For some reason my attached neighbour does, which makes his lounge much smaller, but I don’t.
Now I don’t know if the regulations have changed, or whether the old fire was different in some way, but I was told by a learned friend at work that I’d need to put a chimney flu thing running up the outside of the wall ending somewhere up by the guttering! He also said that it would probably cost me more than the fire because they are made from stainless steel.
Is this true? Is there a risk or danger from just having it as it was before with a simple short flu ending with a metal grill stuck against the outside wall at hip height? I should mention that I don’t have a chimney. For some reason my attached neighbour does, which makes his lounge much smaller, but I don’t.