The beauty that is a real fire
I live with my Mrs and little un in a very old house
the house has been modernised over the years but recently we decided to ditch the pretend real fire looking expensive to run gas fire set-up with its fake coal briquettes last week and revert back to a real fire with wood and coal and stuff. This has to be the best decision we have ever made regarding house improvements.

We now have a crackling real fire that costs us next to nothing because we have started to use a freecycle website to obtain free wood. In the evening we sit watching tv warm as toast and when my mrs goes to the loo in the commercial breaks i throw bogeys on the fire to watch them crackle....heaven i tell thee.

to top all this domestic bliss off im still using the fake fire brass front (That i took out) with my new old fashioned real fire.
Sometimes i think going backwards is the only way forward.
(Cov Boy, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 10:10, 1 reply)

I have a double gas fire as you describe in the middle of a very large space
It's fecking useless.

I also have a real fire against the wall in the same space. I use wood too and it warms the space a treat.

There is no comparison. Real fires are more effective and in my case, a lot cheaper even though I pay for the wood.
( Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:39, closed)