My 1962 ex council house had one of those horrible wall hung gas fires in it when I moved in which was swiftly removed and replaced temporarily with an electric fireplace, I'm not getting ready to fully re-do my living room including the fireplace.
I haven't decided yet but thoughts are either a normal inset gas fire with surround, a multi fuel stove inset into the chimney or a gas fire made to look like a log burner.
my house appears to have two chimney pots one appears to be an open fire type probably from the kitchen but this is blocked off, and a gas terminal on the other this would be from the old gas fire.
so my question is what options do I have with this:
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I'm guessing there isn't enough room to stick a new fire in there so it would need knocking out, would I then need a flue liner if I install a class 1 gas fire?
If I wanted to install a log burner I'd need more depth and would probably end up going into the old kitchen fireplace area, I guess I could just block up one chimney and use a flue liner for this?
Also the gas supply pipe used to sit infront of the chimney breast so I would drop this through the wall and link it to the back of the gas fire?[/img]
I haven't decided yet but thoughts are either a normal inset gas fire with surround, a multi fuel stove inset into the chimney or a gas fire made to look like a log burner.
my house appears to have two chimney pots one appears to be an open fire type probably from the kitchen but this is blocked off, and a gas terminal on the other this would be from the old gas fire.
so my question is what options do I have with this:
//media.diynot.com/186000_185711_74264_63615872_thumb.jpg
//media.diynot.com/186000_185711_74265_75493483_thumb.jpg
//media.diynot.com/186000_185711_74266_18699982_thumb.jpg
I'm guessing there isn't enough room to stick a new fire in there so it would need knocking out, would I then need a flue liner if I install a class 1 gas fire?
If I wanted to install a log burner I'd need more depth and would probably end up going into the old kitchen fireplace area, I guess I could just block up one chimney and use a flue liner for this?
Also the gas supply pipe used to sit infront of the chimney breast so I would drop this through the wall and link it to the back of the gas fire?[/img]
