Gas Fire, Open Fire or Stove?

Scráib

Which one of these do you prefer to have in your sitting room?

I prefer the stove myself, it throws out more heat for a less fuel used. That said where I live now has an open fire and when you could end up staring into it for hours, it's caveman TV!

stovelid

Scráib wrote: »

I prefer the stove myself, it throws out more heat for a less fuel used.!

Good for you.

Although I resent the implication that I'm little more than a receptacle for producing large volumes of hot air.

FatherLen

i nearly passed out from the boredom.

starbelgrade

I have a stove in the kitchen & an open fire in the sitting room.. the best of both worlds!

I hate gas fires - they're as bad as fake Christmas trees - just not the real deal.

stovelid

Does anybody need a a stove in the bedroom?

starbelgrade

stovelid wrote: »

Does anybody need a a stove in the bedroom?

No - but I need a lid on my toilet.

Sykk

Man I love the open fire.. The flames! Could chill on the couch with a beer, no tv on and just look at a blazing fire.

jd007

Open fire ftw!

Pookah

You can't beat sitting, gazing into an open fire.

kfallon

I couldn't give a 'Barry White' so long as I'm warm!

Jesus wept!

starbelgrade

Pookah wrote: »

You can't beat sitting, gazing into an open fire.

Yes you can....

Shagging on a rug in front of an open fire.

PeterIanStaker

Nothing like an open fire as I sit in my high backed chair with my smoking jacket on, swirling a glass of cognac, watching WrestleMania.

Kimono-Girl

i just love watching chestnuts roasting on an open fire!

Interceptor

Exo-thermic chemical reactions ftw...

<EDIT> Hey, wheres the 'I live near a volcno and get free hot water' option?

'cptr

FatherLen

Interceptor wrote: »

Exo-thermic chemical reactions ftw...

gooooooooo science!!!

stovelid

starbelgrade wrote: »

Yes you can....

Shagging on a rug in front of an open fire.

Busted, Grandad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwgwVhmRprY

Pookah

starbelgrade wrote: »

Yes you can....

Shagging on a rug in front of an open fire.

Ok, you're on. But I'm busy this week. It'll have to be some other time.

gonedrinking

Pookah wrote: »

You can't beat sitting, gazing into an open fire.

are things that bad these days that our only source of entertainment is looking at a fire?

Pookah

gonedrinking wrote: »

are things that bad these days that our only source of entertainment is looking at a fire?

Worse. I have to sit, gazing longingly at a radiator. I'd kill for an open fire.

marzic

Scráib wrote: »

Which one of these do you prefer to have in your sitting room?

I prefer the stove myself, it throws out more heat for a less fuel used. That said where I live now has an open fire and when you could end up staring into it for hours, it's caveman TV!

I like that... UUGH!

gurramok

Nothing beats an open fire watching the coal, briquettes, firelogs & wooden logs burn to hell and knocking down a few pints while watching the genocide of said species!

alwaysadub

I have an open fire. I don't light it every night though.
If i didn't have that, i'd go for a stove.

Shenshen

Scráib wrote: »

Which one of these do you prefer to have in your sitting room?

I prefer the stove myself, it throws out more heat for a less fuel used. That said where I live now has an open fire and when you could end up staring into it for hours, it's caveman TV!

Open fire, followed by gas fire.
With a correctly installed fireplace and regulator, it'll give off way more heat than a stove, and it's nowhere near as utterly ugly.

laugh

Shenshen wrote: »

Open fire, followed by gas fire.
With a correctly installed fireplace and regulator, it'll give off way more heat than a stove, and it's nowhere near as utterly ugly.

A stove is way more efficient especially to heat hot water and radiators.

Ms. Captain M

starbelgrade wrote: »

I have a stove in the kitchen & an open fire in the sitting room.. the best of both worlds!

I hate gas fires - they're as bad as fake Christmas trees - just not the real deal.

Same as that, open fire in sitting room and stove with a back boiler in the kitchen. Pain in my face lighting fires though, solid fuel is the only heating I have.

Lia_lia

We've nothing in our sitting room. Well, a heater. But we've a range in the kitchen.

Brendog

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091223121855/fatherted/images/thumb/9/9d/Austin_Purcell.jpg/250px-Austin_Purcell.jpg

We run the gas off the electricity and the electricity off the gas and we save two hundred pounds a year, but then a few weeks later ah god, I'll never forget it now, we got a new boiler..."

jimthemental

Used to have an open fire but got a stove during the summer. It's class because it uses only half the turf.

Duggy747

Preferably I'd like to have all 3 blazing :pac:

I miss the open fires, last house I lived in had a great fireplace but this crappy house I'm in now has an electric fireplace that would drink electricity like there's no tomorrow.

Maybe I should just burn that instead....

gurramok

Open fires are like pay as you go and gas/electric fires are like bill pay. I prefer not to have the shock of having a huge bill 2 months later when using a gas/electric fire:)

Princess Peach

Depends what you want it for.

Stove if its for heat.

Open fire if its to make sweet tender love in front of.

FatherLen

Princess Peach wrote: »

sweet tender love.

????
clatter fucking???

goulders

Got a stove in 4 weeks ago, its coming out on monday, fed up cleaning the glass and eating smoke

Princess Peach

FatherLen wrote: »

????
clatter fucking???

You seem quite the catch.

FatherLen

Princess Peach wrote: »

You seem quite the catch.

i dont know if thats sarcasm or not

Princess Peach

FatherLen wrote: »

i dont know if thats sarcasm or not

Its whatever you want it to be sweetheart.

FatherLen

Princess Peach wrote: »

Its whatever you want it to be sweetheart.

bitchin

laugh

goulders wrote: »

Got a stove in 4 weeks ago, its coming out on monday, fed up cleaning the glass and eating smoke

What are you burning in it?

The smoke is supposed to go up the chimney and if you allow the fire burn hot with say coal the glass will clear.

Joey the lips

which ever one she is happy to lie naked in front off...

squeakyduck

open fires are epic! warmer too....and I can pretend I'm a witch!!! BUBBLE BUBBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE!!!!

JONJO THE MISER

goulders wrote: »

Got a stove in 4 weeks ago, its coming out on monday, fed up cleaning the glass and eating smoke

Same as myself, the last few days with the cold weather the smoke is getting all over the place:(, i love open fires but will have to think of getting a stove because i dont think i want to die of lung cancer just yet.

Pauleta

Gas fire but dont know how to use it. Wish i had an open fire.

Asphyxia

It has got to be an open fire especially during Winter at Christmas time I hate not having an open fire in my house Anytime I call into my parents they have a nice roaring fire going it kills me when I have to go back to mine after sitting all cosy infront of it.