Bioethanol fires?

[Grundoncalling]

Moving to a victorian place whjch has tragically had the flue and chimney removed. We've veen told rebuilding this would be 8-15k, so we're considering this as an alternative.

Any experiences? I know they aren't very effective at actual heating, we currently have a woodburner and would miss having a fire

I don’t think they are the best thing to have I’m no expert but apparently they cause condensation so you may have to look into that first, however the ones I have seen online look pretty good though don’t give out a huge amount of heat, the feature I did like was you get fuel that smelt of vanilla or coffee!

I looked at getting one in our last house and then I saw a video of someone trying to put out a bioethanol fire on skin. It just keeps burning. You’d be able to have a wood burner with a glue fitted for a lot less than £8k, as long as you don’t want the chimney reinstated.

Or get an electric woodburner that looks the part. Much cheaper.

Really @MoonbeamBonnet? That's music to my ears, have you got this done? We've been quoted 8k for just the flue today, and a London fire shop said around 15k😱

I got a quote for it but not in the UK. It was going to sit on an external wall and the flu would go outside. I guess if you’re wanting one on an internal wall with a chimney reinstated it would be a lot more?

They smell quite unpleasant

We have one. I don't like it.
I bought it as a feature for our new family/dining kitchen extension. I was talked out of a woodburner by the architect as we have underfloor heating and fancy pants glass.

It smells, causes condensation but it will be useful if we have a powercut. I have it sitting in a chimney breast and have fairy lights inside the fire to give a glow. I think an electric woodburner style fire would give a better look.

We have one that sits in a fireplace because we too didn’t want to spend too much money (we have a working fireplace in the other room which does the job).

It looks perfectly lovely and fills the space really nicely - but we don’t ever use it because i find it smells a bit. If we have a dinner party we might use it (just don’t have too many of those).