I want to take out my back boiler solid fuel stove, what will I replace it with?

holmum · 10-10-2021 10:18PM #1

Hi guys, we currently have a back boiler stove, heats the downstairs rads or the upstairs, we have it 8 years. We also have oil burner. It has been great when we had small kiddies. Now I find I’m tired of cleaning it out, don’t think we are saving much buying fuel etc (we don’t have bogs etc so we buy all fuel) and we are busier and sitting down later and lighting it later in the evenings or not at all and just using the oil.

I feel like I want to change for a fake fire/stove for convenience. There was a gas fire originally in the fireplace and the connection is still there. I’m leaning towards a gas fire but just concerned I might regret it. My husbands feels we have 2 options of heating the home which is handy in the current climate of inflating prices and is reluctant to change.

thoughts?

MrMusician18 · 10-10-2021 10:26PM

With a decorative gas fire you may as well sit down and ball up fivers and chuck them out the window.

Unless you like the appearance of a fire, I'd cap the chimney and close it up altogether. A chimney is pretty much the same as having an open window when you have the oil heating on.

listermint · 10-10-2021 10:42PM

We had a multi stove. Two fireplaces and oil fired heating.

Removed the multistove during kitchen renovation. And plugged filled and capped both chimney stacks as they are just an open hole drawing warm air out of the rooms and thus the house. Actually ridiculously inefficient.

Left with oil now. It's perfect especially with the insulation and blocking chimney stacks. At some point will look at perhaps air to water or something like that . But tbh for you I'd start with plugging the stack

I want to take out my back boiler solid fuel stove, what will I replace it with?

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