Show me you Bio Ethanol Fireplaces - please?
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Considering a bio ethanol fireplace for my fairly modern house. It has a fake chimney so i cant install a real fire.
I want it as a centre piece to the room as well as giving out some decent heat.
Does anyone have experience of these and especially how much/little they cost to run?
Thanks
I want it as a centre piece to the room as well as giving out some decent heat.
Does anyone have experience of these and especially how much/little they cost to run?
Thanks
We've got a slightly art deco multi fuel stove connected to nothing with a bio-eth burner plonked in. Not much point sticking up a pic as it just looks like a burner, with proper flames in.
Not very cheap to run as SWMBO insists on "odour-free" fuel which costs more (and should be "-reduced" rather than "-free"... it's not bad, 1000 times better than the Calor gas it replaced, but still there. Mind you, coal or wood smell too!) but it's more for effect than warmth, really. Our burner takes about a litre or so IIRC, and that lasts 2 longish evenings before topping up again.
ETA: it does get proper hot
Not very cheap to run as SWMBO insists on "odour-free" fuel which costs more (and should be "-reduced" rather than "-free"... it's not bad, 1000 times better than the Calor gas it replaced, but still there. Mind you, coal or wood smell too!) but it's more for effect than warmth, really. Our burner takes about a litre or so IIRC, and that lasts 2 longish evenings before topping up again.
ETA: it does get proper hot
I have one, I bought the burner a HD stainless trough about 600mm long.
I designed the frame myself and had it fabricated in polished stainless, cost about £400.
Trough sits within that.
Fuel is in 1 litre bottles, I buy 24 at a time off amazon, think they come from Europe, cost is £2.62 a bottle.
I use half a bottle at a time, that burns for about an hour, flames are reflected in stainless, and it looks really good.
I did not build it as a source of heat, more as a decorative feature, we have central heating, but it does belt out a fair bit of heat, not least because there is no chimney all the heat is coming in to the room. The rad in the room has a TRV so that just shuts itself down.
Its a nice feature, we get through about a box of fuel a year so 48 fires.
There is no mess what so ever, no smell and no fumes.
I think its great.
No idea how to post a pic on here, pm me your phone number and I will send a pic across if you want.
I designed the frame myself and had it fabricated in polished stainless, cost about £400.
Trough sits within that.
Fuel is in 1 litre bottles, I buy 24 at a time off amazon, think they come from Europe, cost is £2.62 a bottle.
I use half a bottle at a time, that burns for about an hour, flames are reflected in stainless, and it looks really good.
I did not build it as a source of heat, more as a decorative feature, we have central heating, but it does belt out a fair bit of heat, not least because there is no chimney all the heat is coming in to the room. The rad in the room has a TRV so that just shuts itself down.
Its a nice feature, we get through about a box of fuel a year so 48 fires.
There is no mess what so ever, no smell and no fumes.
I think its great.
No idea how to post a pic on here, pm me your phone number and I will send a pic across if you want.
We found the price to be ok...
Had somebody out to price a wood burner which came in at £1k for fitting plus the burner.
So no more expensive.
As said above, it will be mainly decorative with limited use.
It hangs like a picture so will be able to use it in various rooms and will be especially useful in the geodesic dome that's going in the garden
Had somebody out to price a wood burner which came in at £1k for fitting plus the burner.
So no more expensive.
As said above, it will be mainly decorative with limited use.
It hangs like a picture so will be able to use it in various rooms and will be especially useful in the geodesic dome that's going in the garden
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