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Gas Fires

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,328 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    There's one here but in the almost 2 years I've been in the place I've never used it. Bit odd to find a fireplace-effect in an apartment anyway I think? Just takes up space and the place is badly enough laid out as it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Is there anything to be said for another mass.

    Oh I love a good mass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,744 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Stasi 2.0 wrote: »
    Those flame effect things use crazy amounts of gas. The cheaper/older fashioned ones are better and pretty cheap/efficient to run.
    I have an open gas fire and I've never had a bill like the OP's. It goes on for a couple of hours in the evening to heat the place up, then it's off.

    I'd love a real fire, but it'd be a lot of work to get the gas out of the fireplace.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    kylith wrote: »
    I have an open gas fire and I've never had a bill like the OP's. It goes on for a couple of hours in the evening to heat the place up, then it's off.

    I'd love a real fire, but it'd be a lot of work to get the gas out of the fireplace.
    Wasn't alot of work to remove it.
    Paid a RGI €30 to blank off the gas feed and did the rest myself.Fitted an insert stove in its place.
    Well toasty now.
    (Lugging bags of coal around is a bit of a pain in the arse though.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,744 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Wasn't alot of work to remove it.
    Paid a RGI €30 to blank off the gas feed and did the rest myself.Fitted an insert stove in its place.
    Well toasty now.
    (Lugging bags of coal around is a bit of a pain in the arse though.)

    All the works and the boiler are behind the fire, hidden in the fireplace. I'd have to get them all moved, a wall-mounted boiler put in, and the like.


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,466 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Wasn't alot of work to remove it.
    Paid a RGI €30 to blank off the gas feed and did the rest myself.Fitted an insert stove in its place.
    Well toasty now.
    (Lugging bags of coal around is a bit of a pain in the arse though.)
    Did you check the chimney was lined or whatever it is that means you can use something other than gas ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Did you check the chimney was lined or whatever it is that means you can use something other than gas ?
    I originally had an oil fired system with a back boiler/open fire.
    When I changed to gas they removed the back boiler.The gas boiler is in the shed/garage.
    I now have a gas system to heat the rads and hot water and a non-boiler insert stove.


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