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Ja1983:
we have the delights of an open fire with central heating via the back boiler... and in all honesty i wouldnt change it for owt else!

everyone keeps asking if we`re going to go to gas, but that would mean
a) connection charge
b) replacing/fitting new central heating
c) altering and re-routing all the plumbing
d) big boiler filling otherwise ueseful space
e) the gas bill

...quite frankly i prefer the warm, fresh house, and the atmosphere of the open fire, GCH seems stuffy and stale to me, although i apprechiate not everyone can be RSed cutting wood every other weekend!

....free wood from work/local skip hire (a non fossil fuel, sustainable = enviro brownie points!) has a big part in it aswell!

apparently theres a lot of people going back to coal fires/solid fuel!  8)

probably costs less than £10/month in chainsaw consumables/chimney sweeps, and firelighters - with some coal in reserve for over cold nights (through winter) in summer this is £0, as the fire is rarely lit...

installation cost - well it was in when we bought the house, although i`ve rebuilt the hearth & surround in stone/timber to replace the hideous 70`s tiled jobby! (cost around £100 materials)

Boggert:
I would stick with what you have got...

We are planning a solid fuel boiler in the house we are going to build in Czech... The boiler is corn fed and totaly automatic. What is good is the boiler is carbon nutural and we grow the corn on the farm so its real cheap as well.

sleeplessparadise:
could never have a coal fire after staying at my uncle's house who had one. Black dust on everything, and I mean everything even upstairs and always freezing cold even when he had a new back boiler put in........... much prefer the gas central heating but as you say it is quite stuffy and overpowering sometimes and I certailnly don't believe in having it on all the time at silly levels as some of my family do  :roll:

Bunnie:
At the pub we dont have Central heating.
Down Stairs there is 2 open fires and a gas fire for the larger bar
Upstairs we have a Gas fire and a storage heater in every bedroom.
We also need portable electric heaters inorder to heat up the loos and our resturant!

JumboBeef:
Wood burner in the kitchen (with a back boiler which feeds the dinning room).

Large open fire in the sitting room.  We run both on a mixure of wood and coal ~ super toastie.

Central heating throughout the whole house, running on LPG.

Generally I don't like LPG heating, I much prefer oil.  The heating here costs about £200 per month to run (there are 17 rads on the system) so we normally have the fires on instead.

Don't have an AGA here, but I really miss it from my last place.  An AGA is simply the best thing ever for heating your kitchen, drying your dogs and cooking your food.

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