a new gas fire

globalds

Has anyone got any recommendations for a decent gas fire.

Needs to be a good price and able to warm a decent sized living room.

Not sure what more I should be looking for really ?

Anyone who has fitted one and thinks it is a good buy ?

macman

Do you already have a gas supply to the room?

globalds

Yeah ..The old fire was condemned and presently a little electric fire is in place ..But it is now apparent the old one threw out much more heat ..That is what we are looking for

Spicy_McHaggis

Not very money saving as you lose most of the heat they produce.

daveyjp

There are still the old fashioned gas fires which kick out 5-6 kw of heat such as the Flavel Misermatic. The downside is they look old fashioned.

Anything with a living flame will be more for looks than warmth.

An alternative for high output is a gas stove, but you will need to ensure your flue is compatible.

globalds

The flavel misermatic is the kind of thing that has been taken out and I have no problems putting the same type in.




The room looks kind of like what is going on behind the fire in the photo.

When you talk about flu's

I think it is just a normal chimney behind the fire at the moment.

REEN

When I was looking for one, B&Q had the output of each on their website. As Daveyjp said, the ones with flames are least efficient.

Seronera

Robinson Willey Firecharm for a coal effect one which includes a convecting heat exchanger that makes it a decent room warmer. I know as I have one.

For a bog standard gas fire with radiants look at the RW Firegem Visa 2. Its not bad value.

I hate decorative fuel and live fuel effect fires as they give out no heat and waste all your money. The Firecharm is not one of those by the way.

rustyboy21

If you are after a good hot fire and don't mind what it looks like, then you cannot go wrong with any of the Robinson Willey outset gas fires.


From the Cheap and Cheerful Visa, to the top end Firecharm or Sahara LFE, they are High efficiency, good heat output ( which is not hyped up ) and have been around for years. They are also one of the only brands that make that type of fire, still using heat exchangers on them, which do heat your room better.


Word of note re Flavel. They do not work the same way as the old Flavel fires did ( i.e when set on 2, the 2 middle chalks were on, the outside ones off.) They are all now lit right across, so you do lose that ' misermatic' effect that you used to have.


Robinson Willey and Valor work in the old way, so you have great controllability and can leave it on 1 when you go to bed and the 2 middle chalks are 1/2 lit. At least you know that the light hasn't gone out.


Not nice looking fires, but if you are after heat, you cannot go wrong and cheap to run too.

Jonesya

Ignore these posts about flame effect gas fires being inefficient and being about looks rather than heat - that's only if you buy the wrong one!

You can get high efficiency flame effect fires that looks good, put out 4kw+ and have efficiencies of 90%. The only down side is that to get top efficiency you need a glass front, but they still look miles better than the old radiant fires.

This sort of thing - 4kw, 89% efficient:
http://www.valor.co.uk/product_details/05961E1.htm?ref=/catalogue/gas_collection/Insets-full-depth/Petrus/index.htm

Seronera

Jonesya wrote: »

Ignore these posts about flame effect gas fires being inefficient and being about looks rather than heat - that's only if you buy the wrong one!

You can get high efficiency flame effect fires that looks good, put out 4kw+ and have efficiencies of 90%. The only down side is that to get top efficiency you need a glass front, but they still look miles better than the old radiant fires.

This sort of thing - 4kw, 89% efficient:
http://www.valor.co.uk/product_details/05961E1.htm?ref=/catalogue/gas_collection/Insets-full-depth/Petrus/index.htm

Actually you have missed two recommendations for the Robinson Willey Firecharm, whichever is just such a fire. Its LFE and DFE fires they need to avoid.