Inset Gas Fires

steve70 said:

I've wanted to rip my ILFE out since I moved in to my house 12 years ago and return it to it's former glory.
I'd rather spend money on a bag of coal and have a real fire that I can play with than wasting/burning gas that I can just look at.

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dcawkwell said:

steve70 said:

I've wanted to rip my ILFE out since I moved in to my house 12 years ago and return it to it's former glory.
I'd rather spend money on a bag of coal and have a real fire that I can play with than wasting/burning gas that I can just look at.

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It's true and if that is what you want that is fine.
But people have this silly ideal that they can put a fire and back boiler
in and one little bit of wood or coal is going to
heat their 4 bedroom house and they won't have to spend any time
lighting it cleaning it out.
The reality is I lit my coal fire in the lounge and had it burning for a full 6-9 hours. In that time the room was completely unusable and never even
got to a temperature you could spend any time in.
A 1kw blow heater would have done the job better.

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namsag said:

People can take offence if they want with this reply .
But properly trained gasmen think nothing of gas fires or any open flued appliance even though we are talkin balanced flued here.
It is a bread and butter job to fit a fire to properly trained guy but trouble is the industry is full of central heating repairmen who have not got a feking clue about the basics of gas fitting or fitting appliances.
You just have to look in the CC where pro`s are meant to post and it is embarassing how little they know.
RECENT EXAMPLES
hOW DO I HANG A BOILER
HOW DO I MAKE A HOLE BIGGER.
aND as for doing the basics of a soundness test this can run into pages .

Pros my a**e

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