100% efficient gas fire, how does that work

[men8ifr]

I notice you can buy a 100% efficient gas fire e.g. http://www.screwfix.com/prods/52398...Point-Cheshire-Contemporary-Flueless-Gas-Fire

How does that work then, does it need a chimney?

 

[45yearsagasman]

Oh no the start of another flueless gas fire saga........BORING

 

[Onetap]

How does that work then, does it need a chimney?

Lies, smoke and mirrors.

 

[expertgasman]

How does that work then, does it need a chimney?[/quote]

No flue needed. Good explanation here, scroll to page 6:

http://www.burley.co.uk/pdf/2010 Burley Flueless brochure.pdf

 

[expertgasman]

Also, try not to buy FP, they are a carp company, but to be fair can be cheap. Don't expect help (at all) or parts after 5 years.

 

[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

Also, try not to buy FP, they are a carp company, but to be fair can be cheap. Don't expect help (at all) or parts after 5 years.

Yea, and don't expect you and the dog top be alive for long if fitted incorrect.

 

[mehran]

yeh, but they dont tell you that you have to have a 100cm2 vent to outside, 24/7 365 days a year.

hope you like a draft on you all the time with your 100% efficient gas fire

also hope you like the fishy smell you get off it as-well.

never mind the fact it can kill you.

were as a electric fire does not need a bloody big air vent open 24/7 365 days a year losing all your heat in you home

 

[joinerjohn]

A 100cm ² vent would only be 10cm x 10cm. Or 4" x4" in old money. Hardly going to make much of a freezing draft now.

 

[Corgigrouch]

Still not gonna bite.....

 

[John506]

If they are installed correctly it's fine...

Find a reputable gas fitter and get yourself a carbon monoxide monitor and stick it right above the fire and sorry but I don't see the problem.

 

[expertgasman]

yeh, but they dont tell you that you have to have a 100cm2 vent to outside, 24/7 365 days a year.

Yes, they do

hope you like a draft on you all the time with your 100% efficient gas fire

Intelligent siting of vent

also hope you like the fishy smell you get off it as-well.
That is nonsense, never heard such a complaint

never mind the fact it can kill you.
Stats. im uncomfortable quoting the specific facts

were as a electric fire does not need a bloody big air vent open 24/7 365 days a year losing all your heat in you home

Elec OK for short bursts, but noisy and expensive (but I do sell them where apprropiate)

 

[Corgigrouch]

Another factor with flueless is the ammount of condensation that they produce......

DOH!!! I bit!

 

[45yearsagasman]

What did I tell you!!!!!!!! Here we go again

 

[Biguns]

Yippee

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[D_Hailsham]

I notice you can buy a 100% efficient gas fire

I would be interested in knowing how they calculate the "efficiency"; I think it's meaningless for a gas fire. You could say that a gas hob was 100% efficient.