"R D S" wrote in message
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We have a living flame gas fire in our front room. I only ever use it in
desparation and then only on low.

I am about to put a radiator in that room which will complete the central
heating I started nearly 15 years ago! I wonder how much of the heat from
the rad is simply going to dissapear up the chimney, I am guessing it will
be quite a bit.

Anyone any real life experience of this? I have looked at numbers on the
net but these are from people selling solutions.


I've filled a carrier bag with those polystyrene packing beads and stuffed
it up the mouth of the chimney. The ignition mechanism is beneath the fire,
so we put a warning note next to the ignition switch - out of view unless
you're actually lighting the fire.