On Aug 6, 6:52*am, Bill wrote:
In message , Bob Eager
writes

The snag with this advice is that we have been to the local known good
non-BG supplier and his preferred scheme took a gas pipe through a
child's bedroom and the flue up through a long and winding road through
the loft (which is full of books and other memorabilia that were being
saved for our retirement and would take months to get back down and to
the tip. To give access would mean a huge amount of work).
BG say they will run the gas externally, and would install the boiler
where we prefer. That just puts the flue through the kitchen wall.

Very easy one to solve. Accept their quote or on condition its sited/
run where you want. Or better, ask another firm, specifying from the
start where you want things run..


Local man suggests combi, BG man suggests non-combi. I favour the
latter, SWMBO and son thinks the former sounds "more modern".

It is... but that isnt a reason to install something! Just tell her
about bath fill times.


But I was really looking for guidance about the gas/electric fire aspect
of the change. I have carried on searching and found no real info about
the radiant heat efficiency aspect of simple fires. Current dead Baxi
has ceramic grid thing to radiate, and seems good to me, SWMBO thinks it
looks old fashioned.

so what? Lots of technologies we use daily are old fashioned, and work
great.

If you really want to modern-fashion it, you could paint incandescent
salts onto the ceramic nodules so that it glows whatever colour you
like. I dont know of any treatment that would change the non-
incandescing colour of the plates, perhaps someone does. Maybe - and
only a guess here - a dilute slip made from fire cement plus chosen
metal oxide.


It's a hard life

heh. Sometimes we make it so ourselves.


NT