We bought our first home a month ago and it was said to have had a gas safety inspection in July and passed.
We have a real old back boiler which is located in the chimney breast. Not idea but not a problem apparently.
Had a gas safety inspection yesterday from someone on behalf of npower, he wasn't even going to do one as the certificate was in date but my OH said you may as well. So he did and said the boiler was classed as dangerous, something about the gap in the chimney breast where it's located and the vent outside to the living room isn't correct. So he turned our whole gas off!
My dad is ironically a gas man and came straight round and had a look, he offered to look when we moved in but seen the certificate in date and we said nit to bother for that reason. Dad turned gas back on but boiler off so that we could use our cooker.
We've just had new flooring out down in living room and was going to wallpaper tge weekend and now it's delayed again, we now have to get the boiler removed Tuesday so that we constriction the awful mdf they put up over the chimney breast and plaster board it and get that plastered if course.
My question is what type of fireplace would you put in?
I like the idea of boxing it in and having an electric stove that looks like a log burner inside personally but that's just cause I seen one in a lodge we went to and loved it and it was surprisingly hot and heated the whole place really well!
Any other ideas? Ive never had a house or decorated before and I know the fireplace is the centerpiece of the living room really! TIA
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Gas safety inspection failed on new house
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SWFARMER · 26/09/2015 08:10
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