What do i need to change my gas fire to log burner

jcr16

I need some help please.

we have just removed our gas fire. and now have opened up the fire place to how it was.

but wondering what do we need to do in order to put a log burner in.

what do we need to check chimney wise? we do have a flu lining up there.

but having never taken a gas fire out before in order to have alog burner, we want to make sure we do it all safe.

Peartree

I'm not sure what you need to change over but I hope you're up to the hard work. I've had a log burner in the past - it ate logs and was an effort to keep up with the cleaning out, lighting and finding enough logs - it only went on when I had visitors or a special occasion. Alongside central heating, it was very hard 'balance out' the heat in the house as the burner got insanely hot.

Now I have a gas fire that you'd be hard pressed to distinguish from a real open fire in an open grate, which replaced one of those horrid old gas fires stuck on the wall. It needs minimum maintenance, is on nearly every night and means that I don't need the central heating on from Spring to Autumn.

Have a serious think about a log burner, others may disagree, but I think they are a bit of a commitment (unless it is purely for the occasional decorative use). Do you really want to be dealing with all the ashes and faffing with all those babies in the house!?! You'll need to be able to put some safety barrier around it, which is easier with a grated fire.

jcr16

thanks for that.

i've grown up with open fire's, aga's and log burners all my life so has hubby. so to me centrel heating and gas fires is odd.

we do have central heating. but we plan to only use the log burners at weekends when we have more time and are generally in all day. we have fire guards already.

i've found on ebay of all places so great information about log burners

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so we are going to contact local council and make sure that what we have installed is done properyl and follows all the reg's.

Pink.

Hi jcr16,

This replies on this recent thread may help:

Converting gas fire to woodburner.

Pink

whichburner

Hi ,
Try this site, it for the manchester area, but you can download lots of go info, just go to woodburningstovesmanchester.co.uk

olias

I would strongly suggest a multi fuel rather than a log burner. It's so much easier when you have the option of just grabbing a bag of coal from the service station when you've ran out. Coal also gets hotter and burns for longer.
I had one and I found that with logs, I was having to put a new log on every half an hour, whereas with coal I just needed to top it up a couple of times during the evening. I ended up using logs for special occasions when I wanted a nice romantic flaming fire, and coal for the rest of the time.

I also found that it was that warm, that I didn't need to bother with central heating when I had the burner going as it warmed up the whole house.

Olias