Gas fire or stove?

lightspeed

Hi

We moved into our house last Christmas and have a gas fire currently in the house. It's an old Calypso gas fire but doesn't work as spark seems to be gone. If you light it using a lighter with gas running it comes on but goes off soon after.

We were thinking of replacing it with a hole in the wall type gas fire. However we are now also considering a stove.

I'm concerned gas fires will go off the market and if it breaks in a few years I won't be able to get parts to fix or will be very expensive.

Where I understand a stove will need some parts like back plate replaced it's relatively cheap to do so.

The room is about 3.5m in width, 5.5m in length and floor to ceiling is 2.5m.

For above room size what kw of heat is needed?

It's a semi detached house built in 1998. So I think it's cavity blocks at front of house and then solid block for neighbouring wall in which fireplace/chimney is situated.

Would a gas fire be cheaper to run than a stove lit by fire logs?

The below has max heat output of 3 8kw. Would this be enough with central heating?

https://www.thegascompany.ie/chimney-hole-in-the-wall-gas-fires/971860-riva2-400-edge-gas-fire-grv2400cv.html

Dtp1979

3 POINT 8. POINT!!!!

lightspeed

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117741071#Comment_117741071

???

Dtp1979

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117741350#Comment_117741350

Your post said 38kw. I was only jokingly saying to put in a decimal point. 3.8kw

lightspeed

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117743194#Comment_117743194

Oh right, would you have anything of value to add?

phormium

I don't know much about gas fires or stoves other than my father had a small gas stove, it was a brilliant thing, heated the room really well and was much cheaper to run than the previous more insert type he had. It was quite small and had a remote control to operate it, as the metal got very hot too there was the radiated heat from it as well as the actual heat from the gas flames.

I don't know what type it was and I bought it second hand for him when he could no longer bend down to light the old fire manually but if I had gas to my own sitting room I'd get one like it!