New Gas Fire Is Costing Us The Earth!

jennyhatesjazz_2

PLEASE HELP!!!!!

A few months ago my dad paid around £800 pounds for new log effect Gazco fire. As far as we know we've done everything by the book to date; we got a Corgi registered fitter to install it, my dad having already put in the fuel lines himself for the Calorgas required to run it.

Well, everything went smoothly, and we were enjoying our new fire until it suddenly ran out of gas. We couldn't believe it, and suspected a fault until we discovered that the two 47kg bottles, costing a cool £42 each were empty after only 2 weeks of use!! :eek: So, we bought replacements and continued to use the fire with a little more caution - mainly in the evenings - but again the bottles ran out in no time at all.

My dad is the sort of bloke who is generally hard to give advice to, and despite my uncle's suggestion that we should look in to the matter, he's now convinced we just can't really afford to run it, and that there is not, infact, a fault of any kind. So now he's considering reverting back to a real fire, as the chimney is still functoinal. The trouble is, he bought a very very expensive marble, concrete filled fire surround/mantlepiece, which we were told might not withstand the heat of a real fire. So we're in a pickle, to say the least, and now the fire's becoming a bone of contention in the household - when it goes on, for how long - you know the sort of thing!!..

I would be sooo grateful of advice from some sweet soul out there who'd be kind enough to help.

Pssst

Do you happen to have the installation/service manual for it? If so,perhaps you could quote was the heat input is from the specification section?

Is it the wasteful open basket type which looks pretty on a winters eve but is very inefficient?

http://www.stovax.com/

spiro

This review indicates the user uses a bottle a year.

http://www.ciao.co.uk/Gazco_Riva_Gas_Fire__Review_5631773

tonysbt

I think this needs to be checked out - a very small leak could cause you to lose a lot of gas.

Tony

spiro

tonysbt wrote: »

I think this needs to be checked out - a very small leak could cause you to lose a lot of gas.

Tony

I agree. I also see you say your dad installed the pipework and I assume this means the cutover value as well, any of these could be a cause for gas loss. The link I posted also indicates that the fitter has to be qualified for Calor not just a regular Corgi fitter.

Suggest you want to get it tested to ensur there is no leak .