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Installing a Log Fire/Log Burner- help please!
larry1981
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Reposting here from the DIY forum.
Good morning,
We have recently moved into a house built around 1970, which is terraced between two other houses and has a central chimney rising through pretty much through the exact centre of the house.
I would like to put in a log burner, or reinstate the old fireplace which we uncovered during recent wallpapering.
We have Gas Fired CH and a big old Potterton boiler does the honours, which must be at least 20 odd years old. This is situated on the ground floor. The waste gases go up the chimney.
I have been told that I can’t have an open fire whilst this occurs- is this true for a wood burner also?
Please forgive my ignorance on this if this is a stupid question.
The issue is that we only have two external walls, and an L shaped Living Room on the first floor with large French doors at either end, so realistically only one place for the burner and flue to exit. This is also where the Sky/Aerials come into the house and where the TV sits, so not ideal!
Are there any other solutions? I don’t want an electric, gas or liquid fuel fire, interested only in fires that can burn logs/coal.
Long term we will need to replace the boiler, so when this occurs we were going to go with a combi on an outside wall downstairs, and then use the old fireplace unless there is a better solution?
Many thanks in advance for your responses.
Good morning,
We have recently moved into a house built around 1970, which is terraced between two other houses and has a central chimney rising through pretty much through the exact centre of the house.
I would like to put in a log burner, or reinstate the old fireplace which we uncovered during recent wallpapering.
We have Gas Fired CH and a big old Potterton boiler does the honours, which must be at least 20 odd years old. This is situated on the ground floor. The waste gases go up the chimney.
I have been told that I can’t have an open fire whilst this occurs- is this true for a wood burner also?
Please forgive my ignorance on this if this is a stupid question.
The issue is that we only have two external walls, and an L shaped Living Room on the first floor with large French doors at either end, so realistically only one place for the burner and flue to exit. This is also where the Sky/Aerials come into the house and where the TV sits, so not ideal!
Are there any other solutions? I don’t want an electric, gas or liquid fuel fire, interested only in fires that can burn logs/coal.
Long term we will need to replace the boiler, so when this occurs we were going to go with a combi on an outside wall downstairs, and then use the old fireplace unless there is a better solution?
Many thanks in advance for your responses.
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Is your sitting room up stairs with just the roof above?
You can fit a stove and have a twin walled flue straight out through the roof
We have had to do that as we too have a stove downstairs using the chimney0 -
Hi Suki, thanks for your reply.
Unfortunately not, it is a 3 storey townhouse with the bedrooms above, negating the possibility of another flue up that way.0 -
Hi Suki, thanks for your reply.
Unfortunately not, it is a 3 storey townhouse with the bedrooms above, negating the possibility of another flue up that way.
Surely you can, but you would have to box in the flue and it would take space in rooms above.
Why not just wait till the boiler is replaced? You only use a fire in winter anyway. I first used mine 2 weeks ago, installed last spring.Warning: This forum may contain nuts.0 -
Not a stupid question at all - but the answer is that you can't have different appliances "sharing" a chimney - they must be separate flues.
Having a read of this thread may help:
http://www.thegreenlivingforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=185020
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