Wood or gas fire

Chocolatelovinggran

Wood is a renewal source of heat, and is not dependent on any other country.
I hope that you enjoy your new stove, Gingster.

A huge amount of wood is imported for woodburners, mainly from Easter Europe, and often cheaper than home grown wood. UK suppliers will falsely say it's British as they bought it in Britain, but from importers.

Five years ago we replaced our wood burner with a flueless catalyctic gas fire which uses LPG gas, so you don't need mains gas. It is 100 percent efficient, warming the room in about 10 minutes, and we only use about 1 and a half gas cylinders a year. It looks just like a log burner.
It's one of the best moves we have ever made!

Jaxjacky

I would have a log burner tomorrow, we’ve had quotes, it would involve a new flu, electric sockets moved and a lot of upheaval.
My hankering to recreate the one we had in our French house doesn’t justify the cost sadly.

I had one in the previous house, loved it. We moved to a newbuild and looked into getting one, sadly its too difficult and expensive but I will always miss having one. So cosy and amazing scent from the burning logs.

Gas everytime for us

I do think they look lovely, but I’ll be honest and admit that I would tire of having to clean out ashes (however infrequently that is with the modern burners) and go out for logs wherever they happen to be stored. I would also tire of the dust.
I really do like them, my brothers have them, but I will stick with my “look alike” gas and electric fires.
Thinking back to my childhood, we had open fires, and although they were very cosy once lit, the lighting of them could be difficult, particularly on damp days - it would take ages for the sticks to catch. Every day, the ashes had to be emptied, too. So, it was hard work, really.

OldFrill

Chocolatelovinggran

Wood is a renewal source of heat, and is not dependent on any other country.
I hope that you enjoy your new stove, Gingster.

A huge amount of wood is imported for woodburners, mainly from Easter Europe, and often cheaper than home grown wood. UK suppliers will falsely say it's British as they bought it in Britain, but from importers.

Our wood is all locally sourced - as we collect it ourselves, and the bonus is that it's all free!