Fire Place Advice

[Yanni]

Just bought a bungalow and removed the 70s gas fire.

Now the fire place has a hole that is higher than the average electric fire I find on a reasonable price. What would you do, would you put a back panel and cover the whole thing and then put the fire on the outside as in rest of photos from B&Q.

Also which fire would you prefer the brass one or the fake log burner? It is for a buy to let but I still want it to look decent.

Thanks

 

[Exedon]

First thing would be to get someone with G S R to cap that gas supply just turning it off will not do!

 

[Yanni]

First thing would be to get someone with G S R to cap that gas supply just turning it off will not do!

Already done that underneath the floorboards by my gas engineer.

 

[Koolpc]

Knock all of the fire surround down. Very dated.

 

[Mr Chibs]

I'd remove it too, think slightly more contemporary might be the way to go, for a BTL, if I had to pick, I'd go mock wood burner.

 

[HERTS P&D]

I would fit a wood burner, save money on gas.

Andy

 

[cdbe]

All looks horrible. Strip the whole lot out. Stick a fake basket with some nice pebbles in the opening - no-one in their right mind will be running an electric fire these days. An efficient gas fire might have been a selling point.

 

[Yanni]

I found this Dimplex Kansas electric fire that fits nicely. You can use just the fire effect without the heating. Stripping it all down is ideal but that means I will have to put new wallpapers up and also patch plastering...dont have the time right now.

I created this in photoshop, I think I will leave it like that...