Gas fire or Gas Stove instead of open fireplace

theguzman

So my parents are both retired and shoving on a bit. Around 5-6 years ago they threw out their Stanley Solid Fuel range which was converted to Kerosene like 20 years prior and that thing never gave great heat and was inefficient. They spent like €5 - €6k on the stove, new outside Oil boiler etc at the time. However since the new stove was fitted the old fireplace in the sitting room is only lit at Christmas and its antiquated back boiler was disconnected from the plumbing system and holes drilled in it.

I was thinking to replace the fireplace with maybe a gas fire or gas stove. What do people think of these? It would be very clean and I wonder if those large 90L Red flogas cylinders could be used instead of a massive bulk tank for LPG? The house is nowhere near the national gas grid.

My idea is just to make the living room as toasty as possible whilst still preserving the open fire glow and effect for them which they are so fond of. They like to watch TV in there but I always notice them instead huddled around the solid fuel stove in the kitchen watching the small kitchen TV instead when they should be sitting back with the heat of a gas fire on the sofa in the living room.

The kitchen is usually roasting when the stove is topped up with Turf and Wood and that stove runs around 8 hours a day and 12 hours per day in severe cold by them, they use maybe 500L of Kerosene per year with the biggest consumption for hot water in summer when the stove is not lit.

Redriddick

theguzman wrote: »

So my parents are both retired and shoving on a bit. Around 5-6 years ago they threw out their Stanley Solid Fuel range which was converted to Kerosene like 20 years prior and that thing never gave great heat and was inefficient. They spent like €5 - €6k on the stove, new outside Oil boiler etc at the time. However since the new stove was fitted the old fireplace in the sitting room is only lit at Christmas and its antiquated back boiler was disconnected from the plumbing system and holes drilled in it.

I was thinking to replace the fireplace with maybe a gas fire or gas stove. What do people think of these? It would be very clean and I wonder if those large 90L Red flogas cylinders could be used instead of a massive bulk tank for LPG? The house is nowhere near the national gas grid.

My idea is just to make the living room as toasty as possible whilst still preserving the open fire glow and effect for them which they are so fond of. They like to watch TV in there but I always notice them instead huddled around the solid fuel stove in the kitchen watching the small kitchen TV instead when they should be sitting back with the heat of a gas fire on the sofa in the living room.

The kitchen is usually roasting when the stove is topped up with Turf and Wood and that stove runs around 8 hours a day and 12 hours per day in severe cold by them, they use maybe 500L of Kerosene per year with the biggest consumption for hot water in summer when the stove is not lit.

Hi,

I am no help but am considering doing this myself in my own sitting room. A friend of mine installed a gas closed fireplace a few years back and highly recommended it. Will see if he has any info on it

Rosia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058044701/gas-fire-or-gas-stove-instead-of-open-fireplace

Hi, could I ask if your parents ever installed a gas stove? Thanks!

steamdave

If installing a closed/inset stove, what is the attraction of gas compared to wood?

I would presume that in an older house there would be provision for fuel storage. OK, cleaning the stove would require a bit of work, but how much upheaval would there be in fitting the gas system (tank and piping done Neatly)? If using bottled gas, running costs could be quite a bit more than wood.

Dave

Idbatterim

gas would be far easier effort wise, wood, far nicer to the eye… Also, I think sitting the wood stove, outside the actual chimney cavity, releases far more heat into the room, would getting one with a backboiler make sense op?