On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:03:35 +0000, D.M. Procida wrote:

http://www.westcountryfires.co.uk/fires/products/382.asp

It's a flueless gas fire. In other words, all of the carbon dioxide it
produces will remain in the room, instead of going up the chimney to
draw in fresh air from outside.

"the fire has the ability to burn off the odorous and stale air in the
room and efficiently return warm and neutral air back into your
airspace"

Wow.

Daniele

This is the sort of technically ill founded hype that "you know who" takes
as gospel true.

Flueless gas fires are not death traps but are subject to a number of
rules so that they don't become so. Principally, the power per unit volume
is set at a low limit, and additional substantial (100cm^2) ventilation is
mandatory. The also have a catalyst to oxide traces of CO to CO2 in the
combustion products.

They are much more expensive than basic open flued and balanced flued
models of comparable rating.

They have the very big disadvantage that they produce a large amount of
water vapour which in some circumstances might be useful in many others
will do nothing to reduce any potential or actual damp problems.

They can hardly be described "as breathing life into your room" unless you
are a spore of A.Niger.

--
Ed Sirett - Property maintainer and registered gas fitter.
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