heat lost through a flue

muckybutt

We used to have a catalytic flueless lpg stove, our first house only had night storage heaters. I converted the loft to make it into a living room and we were hoping to put a stove up there but the flue would have been an issue so we went for a LPG flueless stove.

Very efficent as you get all the heat, that combined with the insulation I used we basically only needed it on tickover to keep a constant heat in the living room.

Some say you get a lot of condensation from LPG but to be honest with correct ventillation as we had we never had any problems.

yangptangkipperbang

Nicolai1977 wrote: »

What worries me is the additional draught an open flue creates, i.e. you get the chimney effect all of the time. I'm pained to pay to heat the air in the house and for it to go up the chimney and be replaced by cold air from outside.

This a rather large red herring I am afraid. You don't actually lose much heat up a chimney - heat rises, so the majority of the heat in a room is way above the height of an open fire place any way and very little room heat will escape that way.
Apart from which, any room needs some ventilation.............