New gas fire

JoeyEmma

We have recently moved into a Victorian terraced house in Manchester. The original fire place in the lounge has been covered over (not with brick, it doesn't feel that solid), and there is an awful 70's gas fire, complete with plastic thing at the top that turns red for that "real" flame look. It is connected to a gas pipe that comes out of the floor (from the cellar) at the side of the marble hearth.

Of course, being the bastions of cool and chic that we are, we want to rip the ugly thing out.

We were wondering how much it would cost to get rid of the current fire and have a modern flueless recessed fire installed. We have chosen flueless as we can't be bothered with all the hard work of getting the chimney properly inspected and sorted out. Ideally we would like to put an original cast iron one in, however, we can't afford that at the moment.

Any ideas of costings would be more than welcome. Of course I know that it depends on the fire that we choose (it has to be modern, chrome or steel and not have any fake coals or nonsense in, for example this http://www.inspiredfires.co.uk/store/products/firewall_contemporary_wall_mounted_flueless_gas_fire.asp but a lot cheaper of course, but some basic idea would be good.

Ta in advance

vickyn_2

Hi there, not sure why you would want to pay double or more for a flueless when there is already a flue in situ?? The most you may have to do is have the flue liner removed for around £40 (or do it yourselves). Plus I'm guessing you have to pay a corgi engineer to fit a flueless fire anyway, and all they do extra is a combustion test to ensure the flue is operating. Anyway I could be wrong as I'm no expert but we recently had a replacement firesuite fitted and the fire on its own was only £350 plus about £120 for fitting, removal of flue liner and flue test. HTH

JoeyEmma

Thank you!

The other half has just pointed out exactly the same, that there must be already be a flue in situ!

Skiduck

vickyn wrote:

Hi there, not sure why you would want to pay double or more for a flueless when there is already a flue in situ?? The most you may have to do is have the flue liner removed for around £40 (or do it yourselves). Plus I'm guessing you have to pay a corgi engineer to fit a flueless fire anyway, and all they do extra is a combustion test to ensure the flue is operating. Anyway I could be wrong as I'm no expert but we recently had a replacement firesuite fitted and the fire on its own was only £350 plus about £120 for fitting, removal of flue liner and flue test. HTH

as long as no scaffolding is involved. Flueless fires have strict regulaions imposed on them, Using your exisiting flue may have it's pitfalls too - it could be easily condemned.
I advise a few customers to go with some nice electric/plasma ones as some installations would be a nightmare for us and the customer - I don't like giving them a bill that they never expected, especially a huge bill.

singlehouseholder

I have a similar problem in my old terrace, the fire is a pure munter. After looking at options, replace bolier, yeah ok only if I can pay in buttons, replace fire, hmm replacements on offer to suuit my boiler-my nana woulnt even have them. So I went to DIY shop bought some wood, screw and hinges, and intend on builing a screen , which I 'm going to cover in some fancy Laura Ashley (ebay) fabric. Tada, custom built fire concealer!! Until I can afford the cost and mess and effort involved with a new fire/boiler..